Creating sustainable health care systems

Health Care Reform: Creating a Sustainable Health Care Marketplace

Sustainable health care systems. Findings from the section on sustainable health care systems.

OBJECTIVES To summarize major current trends and research in the field of sustainable health care systems. METHOD Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2007. RESULTS Four excellent articles, four nations and four international peer-reviewed journals representing some important aspects of the research in this field have been selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2007. The first pa...

Creating integrated health care

It was the ambition of this thesis to contribute to the growing interest in integrated care and to the ongoing research in this area by exploring the Swedish development of integrated health care. The general purpose was to study different strategies to improve integration in the Swedish health care system in order to identify some of the key issues and conditions in the creation of integrated ...

Creating standard cost measures across integrated health care delivery systems.

BACKGROUND Economic analyses are increasingly important in medical research. Accuracy often requires that they include large, diverse populations, which requires data from multiple sources. The difficulty is in making the data comparable across different settings. This article focuses on how to create comparable measures of health care resource use and cost using data from seven health plans an...

Simulation for sustainable health care

The Journal of Simulation (JOS), an official journal of The UK Operational Research Society, aims to publish methodological and technological advances in the application of simulation modelling-related theory and practice. JOS publishes material in a wide range of domains, including manufacturing, service, defence and healthcare, as it seeks to interest and provoke discussion within the wider s...