PURCHASING OF SERVICES POOLING OF FUNDS COLLECTION OF FUNDS INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND A CAUTIONARY PROPOSAL FOR ESTONIA Payment for Performance (P4P): International experience and a cautionary proposal for Estonia

Payment for Performance (P4P): International experience and a cautionary proposal for Estonia

Estonian Experience on Establishment of a Modern National Poison Information Centre: One-year Profile of Phone Calls in 2012

Background: Initiating a National Poisoning Information Centre (PIC) in Estonia took about 12 years of challenging work on research, training and attracting governmental support and funding. In this study we described the establishment process and the profile of phone calls in the first year which the PIC started to be available full time (24h/day 7days/week).  Methods: This was a descriptive ...

A Case for Open Network Health Systems: Systems as Networks in Public Mental Health

Increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (PMH) services in the Netherlands. Decentralized under the (Community) Participation Act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” But innovation, even when pressure for c...

Beyond “Two Cultures”: Guidance for Establishing Effective Researcher/Health System Partnerships

Background The current literature proposing criteria and guidelines for collaborative health system research often fails to differentiate between: (a) various types of partnerships, (b) collaborations formed for the specific purpose of developing a research proposal and those based on long-standing relationships, (c) researcher vs. decision-maker initiatives, and (d) the underlying drivers for ...

Framework of e-government technical infrastructure. Case of Estonia

As information technology becomes more ubiquitous, governments of all levels must keep up with the increasing demand from the citizens for electronic services of all kinds. The service, policy and governance issues of this struggle are progressively well understood. Its technical aspects, however, are often considered to either be a commodity or covered by research in the field of enterprise ar...