REACHING OUT: The NHIA increased the amount allocated for providers offering telemedicine from NT$100 million last year to NT$170 million to aid more TaiwaneseBy Lin Hui-chin and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Constitutional Court yesterday found that the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) allowing access to the national health database for academic research was partly unconstitutional.
In the court’s Interpretation No. 13, Judicial Yuan President Hsu Tzong-li (許宗力) said that given the lack of an independent monitoring mechanism to ensure data protection under the National Health Insurance Act (全民健保法), the act should be revised within three years to improve personal data protection.
Health authorities have not clearly stipulated the procedures for the use, organization, deletion, termination and withdrawal of information in the health insurance database, which violated laws on personal-data retention,
RESEARCH: The Constitutional Court cited the lack of an independent monitoring mechanism to ensure data protection under the National Health Insurance ActBy Wu Cheng-feng and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A large waist circumference can lead to increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, but a survey showed that up to 46.8 percent of respondents had not measured their waist in the past year, the Taiwan Millennium Health Foundation said on Monday as it announced the launch of its annual waist measurement health awareness campaign.
The foundation and the Health Promotion Administration hold “89 Waist Measurement Day” on or around Aug. 9, with the month and date numbers to remind people to keep a healthy waist size below 80cm for women and below 90cm for men.
Foundation chairman Wayne Sheu (許惠恒) said this
Taipei, July 27 (CNA) The Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan was Taiwan's most profitable hospital for the fifth consecutive year in a row in 2020, the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) said Wednesday as it released the latest hospital financial performances.