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Improvement of the implementation procedures and management systems for the Health Facilities Enhancement Grant of the DOH
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Pantig, Ida Marie T.; Rosales, … - 2012 - This version: July 2011
One of the major challenges in the Philippine health sector is to secure adequacy of appropriate health facilities. To address this problem, the Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) was implemented by the Department of Health (DOH) in 2007. Specifically, HFEP aims to improve facilities...
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Assessment of the service capability and readiness of Philippine hospitals to provide high-quality health care
Ulep, Valerie Gilbert; Uy, Jhanna; Casas, Lyle; Nuevo, … - 2021
data on hospital management and service delivery from selected public and private hospitals. Our findings reveal the … longstanding challenges in hospital management and their limitations to provide even the most rudimentary components of medical …
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The financial health of select Philippine hospitals and the role of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation as the national strategic purchaser of health services
Uy, Jhanna; Nuevo, Christian Edward L.; Casas, Lyle; … - 2021
Health care providers such as hospitals and primary health care facilities form an integral part of any health system. Providers must have both financial sustainability, such that they are able to continuously deliver health care services without bankruptcy, and sufficient profits to maintain...
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Too much care : private health care sector and surgical interventions during childbirth in India
Surana, Mitul; Dongre, Ambrish - 2018
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Information provision and streamlined medical service : evidence from a mobile appointment app
Song, Changcheng; Yang, Nan; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye - 2018
a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a … longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a difference-in-differences model, we document that the app increases completed … hospital consultations by 9.5%, through boosting registrations by 4.8% and reducing appointment cancellations by 3.4%. The app …
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The impact of health information technology on hospital productivity
Lee, Jinhyung; McCullough, Jeffrey S.; Town, Robert J. - 2012
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The competitive business impact of using telemedicine for the treatment of patients with chronic conditions
Rajan, Balaraman; Seidmann, Abraham; Dorsey, E. Ray - 2013
share of the specialty hospital deploying this technology and on the competing hospitals in the region. Our analytical … increasing with the distance of the patient from the hospital. This result explains why patients located far from the specialty … hospital may not prefer telemedicine care. We also prove that telemedicine, unlike numerous other e-commerce applications, does …
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Does price competition damage healthcare quality?
Roos, Anne-Fleur; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2018
One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and...
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Choice of acute care facility by patients : implications for managing urgent care centers
Cakici, Ozden Engin; Dewan, Rajiv M.; Freimer, Marshall - 2015
Emergency Department of a hospital (ED). This choice is made by a patient who is generally not herself a trained medical …
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Stochastic frontier analysis for healthcare, with illustrations in R
Sickles, Robin C.; Wang, Zhichao; Zelenyuk, Valentin - 2022
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