BACKGROUND AND AIM Multi-hospital health systems have become the most popular administrative structure in healthcare, leading to both opportunities and challenges for hospital administrators. In government-funded healthcare systems, there is a balance between costs and the provision of health services. The aim of the present study is to assess the efficiency in terms of costs of a multi-pavilio...

CONTEXT China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) is designed to improve health-service access for rural residents and prevent impoverishment due to medical expenses. Ethnic minority regions in China have specific socioeconomic conditions and policy environments worthy of exploration to assist in the development of rural health insurance schemes. ISSUE At the end of 2008 the NCMS's ...

Besides theoretical enthusiasm and knowledge-driven curiosity, there is no doubt that the growth in health and medical expenses during the last three decades and that this growth has exceeded the economic growth rate of every country in the world. In fact, these have been the major factors pushing the health economy and its’ affiliated disciplines. Health care expenses are increasingly growing ...

The intelligent use of resources enabled by Internet of Things has raised the expectations of the technical as well as the consumer community. However there are many challenges in designing an IoT healthcare system, like security, authentication and exchanging data. The IoT healthcare system, is transforming everyday physical objects, medical devices that surround us into an embedded smart heal...

The purpose of the article is to determine excellence in the implementation of Slovenian physicians’ work in public healthcare and the influence of quality management and excellence in public healthcare, and, above all stress management and health preservation of Slovenian physicians. Leading employees nowadays pose a particular challenge for every manager. Healthcare system is an organised sys...

Nowadays, health insurance has become an essential part of people’s lives as the number issues increases. Healthcare emergencies can be troublesome for people who can’t afford huge expenses. Health helps cover healthcare services expenses in case a medical emergency and provides financial backup against indebtedness risk. its several benefits face many security, privacy, fraud iss...

Costs of administering old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) are of interest both to specialists in income maintenance and to the general public. This article presents a summary of these expenses compared with several important bases: Contribution income, benefit payments, and taxable payroll. An index is developed and used to analyze changes in administrative expense levels from...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the direct annual cost of systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) treatment in Brazil's public and private health care systems, assess its economic impact on the total health care budget, and determine its proportion of the 2005 gross domestic product (GDP). METHODS A decision tree model was used to determine direct costs based on estimated use of various resources in SAH ...

The study was conducted to estimate the direct maternity-care expense for women who recently delivered in South Delhi and to explore its sociodemographic associations. A survey was conducted using the two-stage cluster-randomized sampling technique. Two colonies each from high-, middle- and low-income areas were selected by simple random sampling, followed by a house-to-house survey in each sel...

The past decade has witnessed tremendous improvements in an expanding number of computing capabilities -sensors, advanced analytics, networks, data infrastructure, advanced imaging, and cyberphysical systems -that have, and will continue to, revolutionize health research, and healthcare, with resulting improvements in health and wellness. As the cost of healthcare, the prevalence of chronic dis...