Improving Health Sector Efficiency The Role of Information and Communication Technologies

Despite the promise they hold out, implementing information and communication technologies (ICTs) in clinical care has proven to be a very difficult undertaking. More than a decade of efforts provide a picture of significant public investments, resulting in both notable successes and some highly pub...

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Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autor Corporativo: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2010.
Colección:OECD Health Policy Studies,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations
  • Executive summary
  • Introduction
  • Generating Value from Health ICTs
  • What Prevents Countries from Improving Efficiency through ICTs?
  • Annex B. Project background and methodology
  • Aligning Incentives with Health System Priorities
  • Enabling a Secure Exchange of Information
  • Using Benchmarking to Support Continuous Improvement
  • Annex A. Country case studies.