期刊名称：Review of Public Administration and Management
电子版ISSN：2315-7844
出版年度：2015
卷号：2015
期号：1
页码：1-2
DOI：10.4172/2315-7844.1000158
语种：English
出版社：OMICS International
摘要：Demographic transition, population aging, increased costs of new procedures and technologies have imposed to healthcare systems worldwide a challenge, by which conflicting need to be confronted: improved outcomes and reduced costs. Researchers, non-profit organizations and governments have committed themselves, in the past few years, to pursue ways to optimize health systems performance. The concept of “value” in healthcare has been recently revisited and is currently understood as what really matter when delivering quality and effective care: the balance between outcomes and costs, naturally encompassing efficiency [6]. The way to assess value is by tracking patients and costs longitudinally, but shifting focus from volume to value is a huge challenge [7].
