Objective. To evaluate the role of health plan benefit design and price on consumers' decisions to purchase health … insurance in the nongroup market and their choice of plan.Data Sources and Study Setting. Administrative data from the three …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

health centers found that the explanatory power of the predictors is much greater for cost efficiency than for technical …Community Health Centers (CHCs), designed to provide accessible and affordable health care services to low … organizational performance efficiency is paramount. It is an especially pressing need for CHCs' because they carry a disproportionate …

develop an instrument to identify the most appropriate means of encrypting email communication for telemedicine. A multi … PKI were analyzed, along with survey results from users of Queensland Health's Child and Youth Mental Health Service … support model is presented as a flow chart to identify the most appropriate encryption for a specific email-based telemedicine …

There is a growing realisation from the Australian government that new models of health care will need to be developed … to address the disparity of access, increasing demand and escalating cost of traditional means of delivering health care …. There is growing evidence showing health care services can be delivered safely and efficiently by email. Despite this body …

-business revolution in the form of e-health. This is due to many reasons including the fact that the healthcare industry is faced with … slow to embrace new business techniques and technologies. Given that e-health, to a great extent, is a macro level concern … with respect to embracing e-health (the application of e-commerce to healthcare) and from this an e-health preparedness …