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The
stakeholders can include government, private healthcare
providers (e.g. hospitals, health plans, office-based
clinicians), industry groups (e.g., pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, and medical device manufacturers), professional
associations, industry and trade associations, advocacy
groups, and consumers.
Health care financing
Health care can be financed in combinations of four
basic ways. Provision can be public or private. Finance
can be public or private.
A self-employed doctor working for the National Health
Service is an example of private provision with public
finance (D).
A private hospital which is financed by private health
insurance schemes is an example of private finance and
provision (C).
Private insurers can buy services from publicly owned
hospitals (A) and finally health can be provided by
publicly financed staff in publicly financed hospitals,
(B) as in the Spanish National Health system.
A. Public Provision Private Finance.
B. Public Provision Public Finance.
C. Private
Health informatics
Health informatics or medical informatics is the intersection
of information science, medicine and health care.
It deals with the resources, devices and methods required
to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval and
use of information in health and biomedicine.
Health informatics tools include not only computers
but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies,
and information and communication systems.
Subdomains of (bio)medical or health care informatics
include: clinical informatics, nursing informatics,
imaging informatics, consumer health informatics, public
health informatics, dental informatics, clinical research
informatics, bioinformatics and pharmacy informatics.
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