INFORMATION SOCIETY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM

Tatiana Bogdan
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Tatiana Bogdan: LUCIAN BLAGA UNIVERSITY, SIBIU, ROMANIA

Annals - Economy Series, 2016, vol. 3, 145-149

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: financing; health policy; sustainability; efficiency; health system reform; universal health coverage; health information system.; I15 Health and Economic Development; G28 Government Policy and Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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