Health care Systems

A health system, also sometimes referred to as health care system or healthcare system, is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations. 

On the world , there are four kinds of health care systems:

- Beveridge Model : government pay for it - single-payer model.

- Bismarck Model : company pay for it - multi-payer model.

- National Health Insurance Model : low prices - both private-sector providers and government-run insurance.

- Out-of-Pocket Model : people pay by themselves.
This is some solutions for health care :

1. Enhance physicians’ ability to provide high-quality patient care. Poor design gets in the way of face-to-face interaction with patients because physicians are forced to spend more time documenting required information of questionable value. Features such as pop-up reminders, cumbersome menus and poor user interfaces can make far more time consuming than paper charts.

2. Support team-based care. Current technology often requires physicians to enter data or perform tasks that other team members should be empowered to complete. Systems instead should be designed to maximize each person’s productivity in accordance with state licensure laws and allow physicians to delegate tasks as appropriate.

3. Promote care coordination. Transitioning patient care can be a challenge without full interoperability and robust tracking. Systems need to automatically track referrals, consultations, orders and labs so physicians easily can follow the patient’s progression throughout their care.

4. Offer product modularity and configurability. Few systems are built to accommodate physicians’ practice patterns and work flows, which vary depending on size, specialty and setting. Making systems more modular would allow physicians to configure their health IT environment to best suit their work flows and patient populations. Allowing vendors to focus on specialized applications also would produce the tailored technology physicians need.

5. Reduce cognitive work load. Although physicians spend significant time navigating their systems, many physicians say that the quality of the clinical narrative in paper charts is more succinct and reflective of the pertinent clinical information. A lack of context and overly structured data capture requirements, meanwhile, can make interpretation difficult.

6. Promote interoperability and data exchange. Data “lock in” is a common problem. Systems should facilitate connected health care across care settings and enable both exporting data and properly incorporating data from other systems. The end result should be a coherent longitudinal patient record that is built from various sources and can be accessed in real time.

7. Facilitate digital patient engagement. Most systems are not designed to support digital patient engagement. But incorporating increased interoperability between systems and patients’ mobile technologies and tele health technologies would be an asset for promoting health and wellness and managing chronic illnesses.

8. Expedite user input into product design and post-implementation feedback. The meaningful use program requires physicians to use certified technology, but many of these products have performed poorly in real-world practice settings. Systems should give users an automated option to provide context-sensitive feedback that is used to improve system performance and safety.

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