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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2023-01-17
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9264420037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe use of telemedicine was quite limited in most OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, held back by regulatory barriers and hesitancy from patients and providers. In early 2020, as COVID-19 massively disrupted in-person care, governments moved quickly to promote the use of telemedicine.
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789264758155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe use of telemedicine was quite limited in most OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, held back by regulatory barriers and hesitancy from patients and providers. In early 2020, as COVID-19 massively disrupted in-person care, governments moved quickly to promote the use of telemedicine. The number of teleconsultations skyrocketed, playing a vital role in maintaining access to care, but only partly offsetting reductions in in-person care. This report provides an overview of the use of telemedicine in OECD countries, describing how governments scaled up remote care during the pandemic and exploring the impact that this massive shift to remote care has had on health care system performance. Telemedicine may be here to stay, but questions remain concerning how to regulate its use, how to pay for it, how to integrate it with in-person care, and how to make sure that it constitutes good value for money for all. This report puts forth priorities for policy makers to inform the discussion and to promote the best use of remote care services in the future.
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Published: 2023
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe use of telemedicine, or remote clinical consultations, was limited in most OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, held back by regulatory barriers and hesitancy from patients and providers. In early 2020, as COVID-19 massively disrupted in-person care, governments moved quickly to promote the use of telemedicine. The number of teleconsultations skyrocketed, playing a vital role in maintaining access to care, but only partly offsetting reductions in in-person care. This brief describes how governments scaled up remote care during the pandemic and explores the impact that this massive shift to remote care has had on health care system performance.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2023-02-23
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9264830871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe COVID-19 pandemic had massive consequences for societies and health systems across the OECD and beyond. Health systems were not resilient enough. Resilient health systems plan and are ready for shocks, such as pandemics, economic crises or the effects of climate change.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2024-01-23
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9264653392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis document presents the OECD’s renewed health system performance assessment framework. It incorporates new performance dimensions, notably people-centredness, resilience, and environmental sustainability, and places increased emphasis on addressing inequalities, including those related to gender.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9264475451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHealth systems have to meet the changing needs of an increasingly assertive population and an ever more complex health policy context. Digitalisation, population ageing, chronic diseases, new pandemic threats, and evolving expectations of what health services should deliver – and how – have raised questions of whether health systems meet the needs and facilitate engagement of the people.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-05-30
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9264561625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report examines primary health care across OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, and draws attention to how primary health care is not living up to its full potential. Doing things differently – through new models of organising services, better co-ordination among providers, better use of digital technology, and better use of resources and incentives – helps to improve care, reduce the need for hospitalisations, and mitigate health inequalities.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2022-12-13
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9264550046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatin American countries were hard hit by COVID-19 with rates of excess mortality above the OECD average. The pandemic brought additional stress to health systems already overstretched by a growing burden of chronic diseases, unequal access to health care services, overall under-investment in health and strong budgetary restrictions, and systemic inefficiencies.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2013-02-04
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9264179089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a framework to understand why there are waiting lists for elective surgery in some OECD countries and not in others. It also describes how waiting times are measured in OECD countries and reviews different policy approaches to tackling excessive waiting times.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9264989048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe report reviews a range of policies that countries have used to tackle waiting times for different services, including elective surgery and primary care consultations, but also cancer care and mental health services, with a focus on identifying the most successful ones.
