Health Care Financing: A Case Study

“Health care financing is an overriding issue; others include overcoming disparities in access to care, improving health literacy, meeting the needs of a burgeoning population of older Americans and of the increasing numbers of people living with chronic conditions, improving patient safety, overcoming workforce shortages, and ensuring the appropriate use of technology”(Johnson et al., 2008). In order to achieve the best outcomes, patients and families need to be involved in their health care decision. Also, they must have access to the information and support (Johnson et al., 2008).
Through the patient-driven adaptive technologies, patients and family members can easily access the health information, reports, recommendations and others, which promotes the efficiency and effectiveness of communication between health care team and the patients. It minimizes many complications associated with poor communications. In addition, it maintains the patient’s privacy, minimizes medical errors, “improve the availability and timeliness of information to support treatment decision, care coordination and care planning”(The Office of the National coordinator for health information and Technology, 2013). Furthermore, it makes the system easy to report safety issues and give patients an opportunity to provide more efficient health inputs, which maintains the safety and quality of patient care. It encourages patients to engage in their own care by
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