Eye Care Industry Analysis

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An Analysis of the Health Care Industry Dynamics

The introduction of information technologies to health care organizations is believed to improve the delivery of health care process and bring a great deal of benefit to the society. However, due to the lack of understanding in the nature of such organizations, many system providers have failed to implement their technologies to their fullest potential. The goal of this thesis is to present an ...

Health Care Industry Consolidation

Health care is a very large and important industry. Hospital and physician services are a large part of the U.S. economy. In 2009, hospital care alone accounted for 5.4% of GDP – roughly twice the size of automobile manufacturing, agriculture, or mining, and larger than all manufacturing sectors except food and beverage and tobacco products, which is approximately the same size. Physician servi...

Sustainable eye care at Kitale Eye Unit

Eye care services are an integral part of health services. It is therefore important that eye care programmes are designed with financial sustainability in mind so they can become self-sufficient within a reasonable period of time. This article describes how costs were kept low, income was generated, and quality eye care was maintained at Kitale Eye Unit, a department within the Kitale District...

Teamwork for eye care

Human resource development (HRD) – the development of the people who deliver health care – has been identified as one of the key pillars of eye health delivery. HRD is one of the essential building blocks of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Action Plan: 'Towards universal eye health'. The importance of HRD is also recognised beyond eye care, as can be seen in the WHO Health Systems ap...