Shortcoming In The Healthcare System In Thailand

As Thailand is becoming a destination for medical tourism, attempts are being made to promote Thai health facilities quite actively. However, the average Thai is not deriving any benefits from the medical tourism as there are certain shortcomings in healthcare and hospital facilities which provide medical treatment to the locals.

Efforts are underway to improve the healthcare system in Thailand but a lot has to be done before we see some concrete results.

What Medical Professionals Can Do to Prepare For the New Healthcare System

In the United States one of the hot topics of conversation among medical professionals is the new health care system. There has been so much debate and everyone has an opinion about health care reform, but one thing is very clear There will be changes. Being prepared for these changes will help medical professionals become better at taking care of patients.

From 2011 and beyond, the new healthcare system in the United Sates will add millions of new people who will need healthcare services. Because of this overwhelming increase in people needing health care, there will be an enormous amount of paperwork to process. Doctors should go over current policies and procedures to ensure that there is an established system in place to take care of administrative tasks. Doctors will most likely need to increase their staff because there will be new patients who will have many questions or need help filling out paperwork. The more organized a department is, the easier it will be to process all of this paperwork.

Integrating Shared Decision Making in the Healthcare System

Shared decision-making is defined as a process in which decisions are made by both the patient and his or her healthcare providers. The ultimate goal of this process is to invoke patients to actively participate in the making of decisions especially those pertaining to their health. This is advocated in a patient-care oriented system as in the healthcare system, because of its ability to ameliorate the distinction of the result of the patient’s decision-making ability.

A successful shared decision-making in the health care delivery system rests mainly on the presented threats and advantages of all given alternatives such as determining the setting in which the disease management or plan of care is viewed by the patient as something that’s valuable and considered vital especially in the promotion of his health, in discerning that the patient can fully grasp the exchanged information and discussed plan of care, and leveraging patients in making their decisions based on what’s more beneficial. It also involves extracting preferences of treatment, communicating disease management suggestions, and making the element of doubt unequivocal especially during the process of decision-making.

Can the Medical Home Concept Help Our Broken Healthcare System to Heal

The Medical Home, also called the Patient-Centered Medical Home, and the Personal Medical Home, is a movement to solve the problem of fragmented care (one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing) by having a primary care physician or practitioner act as the center of all care information for the patient. Fragmented care is dangerous (lack of coordination of care causes mistakes and mistreatments), costly (repetition of diagnostic tests and regimens), and wasteful of healthcare resources. The Medical Home plan goals are to provide care for all individuals, improve care, and decrease healthcare costs.

Crossing the Quality Chasm A New Health System for the 21st Century was published in 2001 by the Institute of Medicine. In this landmark book, the patient’s role and responsibility for navigating the healthcare system and acting as the information hub around which the spokes of primary, specialty and tertiary care providers revolve was denounced as unreasonable and detrimental. Since 2001 the concept of the Medical Home, a focal point through which all patients receive acute, chronic and preventive medical services, has been the object of a number of pilot projects, most notably the CIGNADartmouth-Hitchcock pilot project announced in 2008, a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan project announced April 21, 2009 and the CMS Demonstration Projects.

The Canadian Healthcare System and Its Problems

The United States government spent $783 billion in 2006 on Medicare and Medicaid. If we went to a universal healthcare in this country, it would probably go well over a trillion dollars. And taxes would certainly increase. American’s want affordable healthcare or a universal healthcare system. This is going to be a huge debate going into the Presidential election. But, did you know that the U.S. free market system produces the most new drugs and techniques because the system provides incentives for innovation and efficiency Did you know that under our current health system you can go to the doctor whenever you want, there is no waiting line Well, that is not the case in Canada. Here are some criticisms of the healthcare system

57% of Canadians reported waiting 4 weeks or more to see a specialist; 24% of Canadians waited 4 hours or more in the emergency room.

A March 2, 2004 article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal stated, Saskatchewan is under fire for having the longest waiting time in the country for a diagnostic MRI – a whopping 22 months.