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Optimal payment systems for health services

Journal of Health Economics, 1990
Demand-side cost sharing and the supply-side reimbursement system provide two separate instruments that can be used to influence the quantity of health services consumed. For risk-averse consumers, optimal payment systems--pairs of insurance and reimbursement plans--are characterized by conflict rather than consensus between patient and provider about ...
R P, Ellis, T G, McGuire
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Strengthening Integration Of Health Services And Systems

Health Affairs, 2016
New care delivery models that hold providers more accountable for coordinated, high-quality care and the overall health of their patients have appeared in the US health care system, spurred by recent legislation such as the Affordable Care Act. These models support the integration of health care systems, but maximizing health and well-being for all ...
Laurie T, Martin   +5 more
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Information systems for the community health services

Medical Informatics, 1988
This paper is concerned with the design and implementation of an information system which fulfils some of the local needs of fourteen nursing and para-medical professions working in the community in a district health authority, whilst satisfying the statutory requirements of the NHS Körner steering group for those professions. The implementation of the
D E, Avison, C P, Catchpole
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Modeling Health Services Systems

Medical Care, 1976
A conceptual model for the analysis of personal and collective health services systems is proposed. By placing existing formal models in the framework of this conceptual model, we emphasized their qualities and shortcomings. We discussed the normative and descriptive approach of formal modeling.
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Resource Absorption in a Health Service System

Health Care Management Science, 2001
This paper considers the use of treatment resources in a health service system. The particular aspect of system use which is identified is resource absorption - excessive use by a small subset of users and unmet need by others. A dynamic stochastic model for health status with treatment interventions is formulated and the distribution of accumulated ...
L C, MacLean, A, Richman
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