"Competition within the health service is about driving improvements in healthcare and enabling patients to access the best possible services.
The mesenchymal stem cells find their way to the bone marrow and build stroma, enabling patients to return home several days earlier than otherwise.
Technology can help, the argument goes, by allowing more precise self-monitoring or enabling patients to transmit the information to health care professionals.
Its prescription delivery service provides medical appliances and impartial information, enabling patients to make their own choices about their own care with the support of clinical professionals.
The objective is to make every H.I.V. patient into an élite controller through "therapeutic vaccination," enabling patients to generate killer T cells on their own.
The Veterans Administration, a fully digitised health system for former US military service personnel, has cut bed days by 25% by automating some processes and enabling patients to do more for themselves.
He also thinks it is vital to think first and foremost about outcomes – whether that be better health management, preventing diseases, or enabling patients to access their records – and then work backwards.
Emerging technologies are likely to have a dramatic impact on patient treatment, increasingly enabling patients to be treated at home, rather than spending too much time in impersonal hospital wards.
But inhalation of cannabis smoke does have the advantage of rapid absorption thereby enabling patients to titrate their right dose – enough to reduce the unpleasant symptoms but below the dose required to produce unwanted intoxication.
Could we apply the same principle to clusters of local surgeries within the NHS, enabling patients to identify the nearest available appointment to them, dynamically updated to take account of changes and cancellations?
A plan to ask New South Wales GPs to work out of hospitals, enabling patients to dodge the federal government's proposed co-payment scheme, has been labelled "extraordinary" by opposition treasury spokesman Chris Bowen.
