Rural medical care: an experimental delivery system.

Expert System in Rural Medical Care

This paper looks into how an expert system can be used to solve rural problem as it relates to medical care. An expert system is a computer program that simulates the thought process of a human expert to solve complex decision problems in a specific domain. Rural medical care is a health care system found in the rural areas, whose operations are at its poorest state due to lack of sufficient me...

Rural medical care in India.

Health Care Reform—An Integrated Health Care Delivery System Perspective

Why the need for such a radical shift? Because in the past decade, employers’ health care costs have increased more than four times the inflation rate. The average U.S. household spends $15,300 a year for a family of four on health care. And, as a nation, we spend nearly 18 percent of the gross domestic product on health care. If we stay this course, the percentage of health care spending will ...

Health Care Delivery in Rural Rajasthan

1 We thank Seva Mandir for their invaluable help in accessing their villages, and Vidhya Bhavan for hosting the research team. Special thanks go to Neelima Khetan, CEO of Seva Mandir, Hardy K Dewan, organizing secretary of Vidhya Bhawan, and Dr Renu and Dr Baxi from the health unit of Seva Mandir. We thank Annie Duflo, Neeraj Negi, and Callie Scott, for their superb work in supervising the surv...

Managing care in an integrated delivery system via an Intranet

The CareGroup Provider Service Network is a managed care contracting organization which provides central administrative services for over 1800 physicians and 200,000 managed care lives. Services include utilization management, disease management and credentialing for the entire network. The management model of the Provider Service Network empowers local physician groups with information and edu...