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What is Health Care System

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management
The combination of facilities, organizations, and trained personnel engaged in providing health care within a geographical area.
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Analyzing the Role of Health Information Technology in Global Health Care
Kijpokin Kasemsap (Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0920-2.ch017
Abstract
This chapter explains the perspectives on global health, the overview of health information technology (health IT), the applications of electronic health record (EHR), and the importance of health IT in global health care. Health IT is the area of IT involving the design, development, creation, utilization, and maintenance of information systems for the health care industry. Health IT makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through the secure use and sharing of health information. Effective health IT can lower costs, improve efficiency, and reduce medical error, while providing better patient care and service. The chapter argues that utilizing health IT has the potential to enhance health care performance and reach strategic goals in global health care.
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Chapter 16
The Philippine Health Care Delivery System and Health Expenditure
The World Health Organization defines health care systems as follows: “A health system consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health. This includes efforts to influence determinants of health as well as more direct health-improving activities. A health system is therefore more than the pyramid of publicly owned facilities that deliver personal health services. It includes, for example, a mother caring for a sick child at home; private providers; behavior change programmes; vector-control campaigns; health insurance organizations; occupational health and safety legislation. It includes inter-sectorial action by health staff, for example, encouraging the ministry of education to promote female education, a well-known determinant of better health.”
Published in Chapter: The Philippine Health Care Delivery System and Health Expenditure; From: Handbook of Research on Behavioral Finance and Investment Strategies: Decision Making in the Financial Industry
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Information System for Management of Organisation and Its Activity
The organised provisions of all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”.
Published in Chapter: Information System for Management of Organisation and Its Activity; From: Handbook of Research on Developments in E-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives
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