INFORMATION SOCIETY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM

The financial sustainability of the health systems often reveals the ability of policy makers to finance healthcare in the face of growing cost pressures, with populations ageing, new technologies and increased patient expectations for healthcare coverage and quality. Thus, the healthcare systems...

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Main Author: TATIANA BOGDAN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academica Brâncuşi 2016-06-01
Series:Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie
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Online Access:http://www.utgjiu.ro/revista/ec/pdf/2016-03/26_Bogdan.pdf
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spelling doaj-1dacdd6b2e5b49e29e26211d128ce6042020-11-24T23:35:46ZengAcademica BrâncuşiAnalele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie 1844-70071844-70072016-06-0113145149 INFORMATION SOCIETY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH SYSTEMTATIANA BOGDAN 0“LUCIAN BLAGA” UNIVERSITY, SIBIU, ROMANIAThe financial sustainability of the health systems often reveals the ability of policy makers to finance healthcare in the face of growing cost pressures, with populations ageing, new technologies and increased patient expectations for healthcare coverage and quality. Thus, the healthcare systems need to reinvent themselves by using innovative financing mechanisms coupled with electronic information and communication systems, while offering greater transparency, flexibility and choice and increasing access to the services available. The paper analyses the healthcare financing models: the national health system, the social insurance or the private insurance model so that the Romanian health care reform should preserve the best elements of its existing system while selectively adapt techniques and processes that seemed to have been successful in other countries. Moreover, the application of information and communication technologies – eHealth offers new possibilities for improving almost every aspect of healthcare, from making medical systems more powerful and responsive to providing better health information to all.http://www.utgjiu.ro/revista/ec/pdf/2016-03/26_Bogdan.pdffinancinghealth policysustainabilityefficiencyhealth system reformuniversal health coveragehealth information system.
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author TATIANA BOGDAN
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INFORMATION SOCIETY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie
financing
health policy
sustainability
efficiency
health system reform
universal health coverage
health information system.
author_facet TATIANA BOGDAN
author_sort TATIANA BOGDAN
title INFORMATION SOCIETY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM
title_short INFORMATION SOCIETY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM
title_full INFORMATION SOCIETY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM
title_fullStr INFORMATION SOCIETY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM
title_full_unstemmed INFORMATION SOCIETY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM
title_sort information society and financial sustainability of the romanian health system
publisher Academica Brâncuşi
series Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie
issn 1844-7007
1844-7007
publishDate 2016-06-01
description The financial sustainability of the health systems often reveals the ability of policy makers to finance healthcare in the face of growing cost pressures, with populations ageing, new technologies and increased patient expectations for healthcare coverage and quality. Thus, the healthcare systems need to reinvent themselves by using innovative financing mechanisms coupled with electronic information and communication systems, while offering greater transparency, flexibility and choice and increasing access to the services available. The paper analyses the healthcare financing models: the national health system, the social insurance or the private insurance model so that the Romanian health care reform should preserve the best elements of its existing system while selectively adapt techniques and processes that seemed to have been successful in other countries. Moreover, the application of information and communication technologies – eHealth offers new possibilities for improving almost every aspect of healthcare, from making medical systems more powerful and responsive to providing better health information to all.
topic financing
health policy
sustainability
efficiency
health system reform
universal health coverage
health information system.
url http://www.utgjiu.ro/revista/ec/pdf/2016-03/26_Bogdan.pdf
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