Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies The COVID 19 Pandemic and the Future of Telemedicine written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of telemedicine was quite limited in most OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, held back by regulatory barriers and hesitancy from patients and providers. In early 2020, as COVID-19 massively disrupted in-person care, governments moved quickly to promote the use of telemedicine.

Download or read book The COVID 19 Pandemic and the Future of Telemedicine written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of telemedicine was quite limited in most OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, held back by regulatory barriers and hesitancy from patients and providers. In early 2020, as COVID-19 massively disrupted in-person care, governments moved quickly to promote the use of telemedicine. The number of teleconsultations skyrocketed, playing a vital role in maintaining access to care, but only partly offsetting reductions in in-person care. This report provides an overview of the use of telemedicine in OECD countries, describing how governments scaled up remote care during the pandemic and exploring the impact that this massive shift to remote care has had on health care system performance. Telemedicine may be here to stay, but questions remain concerning how to regulate its use, how to pay for it, how to integrate it with in-person care, and how to make sure that it constitutes good value for money for all. This report puts forth priorities for policy makers to inform the discussion and to promote the best use of remote care services in the future.

Download or read book The Future of Telemedicine After COVID 19 written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of telemedicine, or remote clinical consultations, was limited in most OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, held back by regulatory barriers and hesitancy from patients and providers. In early 2020, as COVID-19 massively disrupted in-person care, governments moved quickly to promote the use of telemedicine. The number of teleconsultations skyrocketed, playing a vital role in maintaining access to care, but only partly offsetting reductions in in-person care. This brief describes how governments scaled up remote care during the pandemic and explores the impact that this massive shift to remote care has had on health care system performance.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Ready for the Next Crisis Investing in Health System Resilience written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic had massive consequences for societies and health systems across the OECD and beyond. Health systems were not resilient enough. Resilient health systems plan and are ready for shocks, such as pandemics, economic crises or the effects of climate change.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Rethinking Health System Performance Assessment A Renewed Framework written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents the OECD’s renewed health system performance assessment framework. It incorporates new performance dimensions, notably people-centredness, resilience, and environmental sustainability, and places increased emphasis on addressing inequalities, including those related to gender.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Health for the People by the People Building People centred Health Systems written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health systems have to meet the changing needs of an increasingly assertive population and an ever more complex health policy context. Digitalisation, population ageing, chronic diseases, new pandemic threats, and evolving expectations of what health services should deliver – and how – have raised questions of whether health systems meet the needs and facilitate engagement of the people.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines primary health care across OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, and draws attention to how primary health care is not living up to its full potential. Doing things differently – through new models of organising services, better co-ordination among providers, better use of digital technology, and better use of resources and incentives – helps to improve care, reduce the need for hospitalisations, and mitigate health inequalities.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Times for Health Services Next in Line written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report reviews a range of policies that countries have used to tackle waiting times for different services, including elective surgery and primary care consultations, but also cancer care and mental health services, with a focus on identifying the most successful ones.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Primary Health Care for Resilient Health Systems in Latin America written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American countries were hard hit by COVID-19 with rates of excess mortality above the OECD average. The pandemic brought additional stress to health systems already overstretched by a growing burden of chronic diseases, unequal access to health care services, overall under-investment in health and strong budgetary restrictions, and systemic inefficiencies.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector What Works written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a framework to understand why there are waiting lists for elective surgery in some OECD countries and not in others. It also describes how waiting times are measured in OECD countries and reviews different policy approaches to tackling excessive waiting times.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Securing Medical Supply Chains in a Post Pandemic World written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report offers insights into the risks and vulnerabilities of the supply chains of medicines and medical devices. Policy options to anticipate and mitigate risks of shortages of medicines and medical devices, both routinely and in the context of severe crises, are analysed. Most importantly, the report shows that strengthening the long-term resilience of medical supply chains requires collaborative approaches that balance measures best undertaken by the private sector with those more appropriately managed by governments or supranationally.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Help Wanted Providing and Paying for Long Term Care written by Colombo Francesca and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the challenges countries are facing with regard to providing and paying for long-term care.

Download or read book COVID 19 and Well being Life in the Pandemic written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 and Well-being: Life in the Pandemic explores the immediate implications of the pandemic for people’s lives and livelihoods in OECD countries. The report charts the course of well-being – from jobs and incomes through to social connections, health, work-life balance, safety and more – using data collected during the first 12-15 months of the pandemic.

Download or read book Future of Telemedicine After the Pandemic written by Sydney Pettaway and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work intends to analyze the policies surrounding the use of telemedicine in the United States. More specifically, there will be an analysis of the systems and their effects due to the current world pandemic, COVID-19. Healthcare providers are now subject to new mandates, which are temporarily enacted to assist with increased patient flow resulting from COVID-19. Medicare and Medicaid have made significant adjustments to make healthcare more accessible to their patients. Individual states have altered the structure of their services. Government agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services, have become slightly more lenient in enforcing measures that typically protect the patient and the healthcare provider. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has served as a stimulus package that provides health providers and beneficiaries with funding and new, temporary provisions intended to last through September 2021. The pandemic has created a unique challenge to delivering healthcare and created a significantly more difficult workload to manage. While telemedicine existed long before the onset of COVID-19, health providers have made strides to meet the needs of their patients in entirely new ways. Telemedicine has significantly increased access to acute and chronic care, becoming relied upon as the United States battles this pandemic. By providing an analysis of existing policies, the benefits and shortcomings associated with telemedicine may become more apparent.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Health in the 21st Century Putting Data to Work for Stronger Health Systems written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report explores how data and digital technology can help achieve policy objectives and drive positive transformation in the health sector while managing new risks such as privacy, equity and implementation costs. It examines the following topics: improving service delivery models; empowering people to take an active role in their health and their care; improving public health; managing biomedical technologies; enabling better collaboration across borders; and improving health system governance and stewardship.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Making Mental Health Count The Social and Economic Costs of Neglecting Mental Health Care written by Hewlett Emily and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the high cost of mental illness, the organisation of care, changes and future directions for the mental health workforce, indicators for mental health care and quality, and tools for better governance of the system.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies The Looming Crisis in the Health Workforce How Can OECD Countries Respond written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OECD countries face a challenge in responding to the growing demand for doctors and nurses over the next 20 years. This book identifies possible ways to deal with these potential shortages.