This volume provides a comprehensive review of China's healthcare system and policy reforms in the context of the global economy. Following a value-chain framework, the 16 chapters cover the payers, the providers, and the producers (manufacturers) in China's system. It also provides a detailed...

1. Healthcare information technology overview -- 2. Strategy, vision, and alignment -- 3. IT governance -- 4. Defining and delivering IT value -- 5. Marketing healthcare information technology -- 6. Inform, involve, and influence -- 7. IT risk management -- 8. Managing, directing, and leading --...

This chapter describes and seeks to take stock of a cluster of supply-side reforms that aimed to revitalize what was described by the Croatian Public Health Institute as a passive and low-impact primary care system. The cluster of reforms, which include a mix of organizational, primary care...

Sri Lanka's health system has a long track record of strong performance. This case study describes the main features and achievements of Sri Lanka's high-performing health system, to distill lessons for the rest of the world. UNICO case studies focus on a particular health coverage program. In...

This report reviews the current provider payment arrangements and policies of the Philippines, and the extent to which they have contributed to the achievement of the HFS goals. It focuses on the pillars of the HFS that center on provider payment issues, including what is paid for and by whom...

Following years of political instability, Cote d'Ivoire has recorded a rapid growth rate over the past seven years and entrenched its status as a lower-middle-income country. However, the country's epidemiological profile remains comparable to that of low-income countries, and health outcomes...

This book discusses public and private healthcare organizations by gathering perspectives on the differences in service, management, delivery, and efficiency and highlighting the impact of citizens and information technology in these healthcare processes.