Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Improving Health Sector Efficiency The Role of Information and Communication Technologies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using lessons from case studies, this report identifies the opportunities offered by ICTs for the health sector and analyses under what conditions these technologies are most likely to result in efficiency and quality-of-care improvements.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Improving Health Sector Efficiency The Role of Information and Communication Technologies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using lessons from case studies, this report identifies the opportunities offered by ICTs for the health sector and analyses under what conditions these technologies are most likely to result in efficiency and quality-of-care improvements.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Value for Money in Health Spending written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines current efforts to improve health care efficiency, including tools that show promise in helping health systems provide the best care for their money.

Download or read book Health at a Glance 2021 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. This edition has a special focus on the health impact of COVID-19 in OECD countries, including deaths and illness caused by the virus, adverse effects on access and quality of care, and the growing burden of mental ill-health.

Download or read book Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

Download or read book Making Better Policies for Food Systems written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food systems around the world face a triple challenge: providing food security and nutrition for a growing global population; supporting livelihoods for those working along the food supply chain; and contributing to environmental sustainability. Better policies hold tremendous promise for making progress in these domains.

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 OECD Health Policy Studies Geographic Variations in Health Care What Do We Know and What Can Be Done to Improve Health System Performance written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report helps policy makers better understand the issues and challenges around geographic variations in health care provision and considers the policy options.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Improving Value in Health Care Measuring Quality written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication describes what international comparable quality measures are currently available and how to link these measures to quality policies such as accreditation, practice guidelines, pay-for-performance, national safety programmes and quality reporting.

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 ICTs and the Health Sector Towards Smarter Health and Wellness Models written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the whole new world of possibilities in using mobiles and the Internet to address healthcare challenges.

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Download or read book Research Perspectives on the Role of Informatics in Health Policy and Management written by El Morr, Christo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare providers require timely and accurate information about their patients. As such, a great amount of effort and resources are spent to ensure that the right information is presented to the right people at the right time. Research Perspectives on the Role of Informatics in Health Policy and Management focuses on the advancements of Health Information Science in order to solve current and forthcoming problems in the health sector. Managers, policy makers, researchers, and Masters and PhD students in healthcare related fields will use this book to provide necessary insight on healthcare delivery and also to inspire new ideas and practices to effectively provide patients with the greatest quality care.

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Download or read book Good Governance for Digital Policies How to Get the Most Out of ICT The Case of Spain s Plan Avanza written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan Avanza, Spain’s national Information Society strategy, has helped it into the knowledge economy. This book identifies areas on which Spain should continue work: convergence with EU/OECD levels of access and use, development of e-government services, and growth of the ICT sector.

Download or read book Measuring the Digital Economy A New Perspective written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents indicators traditionally used to monitor the information society and complements them with experimental indicators that provide insight into areas of policy interest.

Download or read book The Path to Becoming a Data Driven Public Sector written by Oecd and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first century governments must keep pace with the expectations of their citizens and deliver on the promise of the digital age. Data-driven approaches are particularly effective for meeting those expectations and rethinking the way governments and citizens interact. This report highlights the important role data can play in creating conditions that improve public services, increase the effectiveness of public spending and inform ethical and privacy considerations. It presents a data-driven public sector framework that can help countries or organisations assess the elements needed for using data to make better-informed decisions across public sectors.