How has social media affected medical literacy in the Philippines? Filipinos are the world’s top users of social media and this has been the case for the past four years

Of the 100-million subspecialist referrals each year, only around half of these are actually completed. This has become an increasingly dire situation for healthcare.

The worldwide practice of Labor Day is believed to have originated in the US. This came about in the late 19th century in which Americans...

Filipino food culture is a combination of Southeast Asian influences, influenced with a bit of Indian cuisine, and some Japanese here and there.

Being in one of the poorer countries in South East Asia, many Filipinos see medical professions as a way out of financial distress.

Located in the tropic of Cancer, the Philippines has only two seasons: the dry and the wet. While Americans are enjoying the summer...

Iloilo City is quickly growing to be an industrial center in the Philippines. The Business Process Outsourcing industry has flourished...

Since the Philippines was integrated into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2015, there have been significant improvements...

Guimaras Island is recognized as the Mango Capital of the Philippines, farming and researching export quality mangoes for the past several decades.

In the Philippines, the legislature has adopted the HIPAA model and passed the Data Privacy Act...

In continued celebration of Women’s Month, Xilium once again joins the University of San Agustin in the second installment of Babaye...

On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2019, Xilium joined the launching of Babaye, Bulahan Ka (Woman, You Are Blessed!)

Mobile devices have always been a controversial issue when it comes to PHI. This is predicted to grow more difficult in the ensuing years...

Transitioning to paperless documentation is a difficult process in light of HIPAA standards. The process of storing information does not end after having converted these to digital EMRs. Rather, HIPAA continues and provides for a new set of rules in keeping these documents. There are two considerations: (1) the legal requirements of retention time and (2) the method of data creation and destruction.

United Nations states around the world have just reaffirmed their commitment to the continuous pursuit of Universal Health Coverage...

In 2012, researchers Dr. Domeyer-Klenske and Dr. Marcy Rosenbaum released the results of their study on how doctors would treat...

Becoming a medical doctor isn’t new for nurses. Even if nursing and medicine are two different disciplines, nursing as a pre-med degree has its advantages.

Mentorship is the process by which tenured practitioners pass on trade tips and strategies to the younger generation.

Knowledge is power. Economic power to be exact. There is an entire field of study dedicated to understanding and hopefully predicting the market in the 21st century.

Last May 25, 2018, the United Kingdom effected a new law entitled ‘The General Data Protection...