Impact of NHI copayment adjustments on healthcare seeking behavior: the mediating role of health facility identification.

Objective: This study investigates the impact of healthcare consumers' involvement, price perception, and attitude toward National Health Insurance (NHI) copayment adjustments on their healthcare-seeking behavior, focusing on the mediating role of health facility identification.

Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted among outpatient customers in Taiwan from October 2023 to March 2024, resulting in 746 valid responses. The survey included demographic variables, involvement, price perception, attitude, health facility identification, and healthcare-seeking behavior.

Empirical Study on the Usage of Telemedicine by Rural and Urban Health Care Consumers in Taiwan: Integrating the Perspectives of Technology Acceptance Model and Theory of Planned Behavior.

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease-19 posed significant challenges globally, impacting various sectors and health care systems profoundly. In response, telemedicine has emerged as a vital solution to address health care demands and resource shortages. However, there is a lack of comprehensive research on telemedicine usage among health care consumers in urban and rural areas of Taiwan.

Exploring Telemedicine Usage Intention Using Technology Acceptance Model and Social Capital Theory.

Telemedicine technology has emerged as a pivotal solution to enhance the accessibility and efficiency of healthcare services. This study investigates the factors influencing the acceptance of telemedicine technology among healthcare professionals in Taiwan. Employing a quantitative research approach, we utilized a survey instrument adapted from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model.

Emotional Labor Is Associated With the Mental Health of Respiratory Therapists in Hospitals.

Background: Respiratory therapists (RTs) play important roles in providing ventilator support to patients in hospitals. They are on the front line in respiratory cases and work with physicians to help patients survive. However, questions remain regarding whether the mental health conditions at work are protected and secured for RTs.

The Impacts of the Hierarchical Medical System on National Health Insurance on the Resident's Health Seeking Behavior in Taiwan: A Case Study on the Policy to Reduce Hospital Visits.

: This study investigated the impacts of the hierarchical medical system under the national health insurance program on residents' healthcare-seeking behavior in Taiwan. : Healthcare authorities in Taiwan initiated an allowance reduction for outpatient visits at regional hospitals and higher hierarchical hospitals in 2018. The ultimate goal is to implement a hierarchical medical system to provide residents accessible as well as consistent medical services.

The exploration of medical resources utilization among inguinal hernia repair in Taiwan diagnosis-related groups.

Background: This study centered on differences in medical costs, using the Taiwan diagnosis-related groups (Tw-DRGs) on medical resource utilization in inguinal hernia repair (IHR) in hospitals with different ownership to provide suitable reference information for hospital administrators.

Methods: The 2010-2011 data for three hospitals under different ownership were extracted from the Taiwan National Health Insurance claims database. A retrospective method was applied to analyze the age, sex, length of stay, diagnosis and surgical procedure code, and the change in financial risk of medical costs in IHR cases after introduction of Tw-DRGs.

Transparency of Mandatory Information Disclosure and Concerns of Health Services Providers and Consumers.

Background: This study analyzed differences between transparency of information disclosure and related demands from the health service consumer's perspective. It also compared how health service providers and consumers are associated by different levels of mandatory information disclosure.

Methods: We obtained our research data using a questionnaire survey (health services providers, = 201; health service consumers, = 384).

Application of genetic algorithm to hexagon-based motion estimation.

With the improvement of science and technology, the development of the network, and the exploitation of the HDTV, the demands of audio and video become more and more important. Depending on the video coding technology would be the solution for achieving these requirements. Motion estimation, which removes the redundancy in video frames, plays an important role in the video coding.

Consumption of national health insurance medical resources by hepatocellular carcinoma patients treated using radiofrequency ablation therapy.

Aim: This study analyzed the health-care resources consumed in cancer treatment to provide important reference guidance to national governments with regard to their health-care policy prioritization and efficient health-care resource allocation.

Methods: Researchers used a retrospective observational approach to study medical resources consumed by hospitalized hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients who underwent radiofrequency ablation (RFA) treatment in Taiwan between 2002 and 2006.

Results: A systemic analysis of the results showed a mean patient age of 65.

Continuous quality improvement of nursing care: case study of a clinical pathway revision for cardiac catheterization.

Background: : Taiwan's Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) has been gradually introducing Taiwan diagnosis related groups (Tw-DRGs) for inpatient cases since 2010. Challenged to adapt to payment system changes, hospitals must implement necessary management control systems or measures to maintain both fiscal soundness and medical care quality.

Purpose: : This study investigated the outcome of management participation in work to revise cardiac catheterization clinical pathway operating procedures.

Establishment of an integrated management model for the secondary prevention of cervical cancer - an experience in taiwan hospital.

In the present study, secondary data analysis was utilized to evaluate the efficiency of the integrated management model (IMM) on the Pap smear test for screening of women's uterine cervical cancer. The data of female patients receiving a Pap smear test were collected both before (from July to December, 2006) and after (from January to June, 2007) introducing the IMM in a regional hospital in Tainan. The result revealed an increment of participation rate from 5.