Public Health Issues
The Global Face of Healthcare
Statement of Thesis:
Finally this work will describe several different countries' public health systems and compare and contrast the similarities and differences noted as well as the political economic, service, expense and other major issues linked to the various structures and forms of the healthcare systems around the world. The various public health tradeoffs that are made on the societal level based on limited resources and competitive priorities will be briefly examined as well.
While the business world has streamlined processes and become more customer-centric the healthcare agency is seeking to do the same in becoming more 'patient'-centric in their processes within the industry. The face of healthcare is rapidly shifting. The administration segment of the healthcare industry is sucking wind to keep up with the changes that are so quickly changing the entire structure within hospitals and clinics throughout the world in an attempt to answer the need in healthcare in today's world. As pointed out by the report many healthcare workers claim that nothing was learned until they left the classroom further stated is that there exists a "critical problem with institutional learning..."
According to a report entitled "Pacific Rim Partnering Overview" there exists many healthcare companies not located in Japan that nevertheless want to gain access to the healthcare market in Japan. Japan's healthcare system is in the midst of a reform and Japan is also experiencing a large increase of competition from foreign companies. Bringing further changes to the political and economic landscape of the healthcare industry is Japan's implementation of certain initiatives of licensing, collaborative research, joint ventures and other common alliance strategies." (Strategic Research Institute Report, 2004) Japan's healthcare system is different from that of the U.S. In that the municipalities are responsible for the provision of basic healthcare while the "prefectures administer hospitals." The following graph labeled Figure 1.0 illustrates the regional healthcare market in 2002 as to the countries and their percentage of the market-share.
Priorities in the Healthcare Industry for 2005:
Stated as "action" priorities for the healthcare industry are the following:
Data-driven clinical care
Advanced disease management
Enhancing quality and outcomes in reporting
Accelerating technology implementation
Evolving toward electronic health records
Leveraging the Web to empower consumers
Finding new solutions to old problems through collaboration
Consolidation of functions to reduce overhead
Managing capacity
Addressing new market
Recognizing the problem of obesity.
Summary:
Considering the drive for electronic medical records and the expansion of globalization that is being experienced among countries of the world, those societies that are electronically privileged appear to be the countries that will benefit most from the IT explosion that is erupting in the healthcare industry on a worldwide basis.
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