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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 04, 2010 | 05:51 IST
Healthcare Industry
- Ten industry trends 2009
- Healthcare Industry
- International Healthcare Industry
Healthcare is the world’s second largest service sector with an estimated size of US$ 5 trillion (2006 est.) The health care industry is considered an industry which includes peoples exercise of skill of a service related to the preservation or improvement of the health of individuals or the treatment or care of individuals who are injured, sick, disabled, or infirm. The delivery of modern health care depends on an expanding and diversified group of trained professionals coming together as an interdisciplinary team. The health care industry is one of the world's fastest-growing industries. Consuming over 10 percent of gross domestic product of most developed nations, health care can form an enormous part of a country's economy.
3.Canada
4.France
- Healthcare Systems
- Health care systems model
In almost every country with a government health care system a parallel private system is allowed to operate. This is sometimes referred to as two-tier health care. The scale, extent, and funding of these private systems is very variable.
Purely private enterprise health care systems are comparatively rare. Where they exist, it is usually for a comparatively well-off subpopulation in a poorer country with a poorer standard of health care–for instance, private clinics for a small, wealthy expatriate population in an otherwise poor country. But there are countries with a majority-private health care system with residual public service (ex. Medicare, Medicaid) - New paradigms in healthcare delivery
- Daycare Surgery 4 Centres
Traditionally, surgery has required the healthcare provider to meet inpatient requirements. However, inpatient facilities are expensive, inconvenient and less than savoury to most patients.Daycare Surgery 4 Centres
Technological advances over the last two decades have helped address this gap. A large number of surgeries can now be performed without the patient having to be admitted at all. This has spelt vast advantages for both healthcare providers and consumers (see table below).
Surgery in an outpatient setting has become a global trend and is expanding throughout the world. It is estimated that by 2020, 75% of all surgical operations will be carried out in ambulatory surgery centres/units. Today over a quarter of the surgeries are contributed by ophthalmic procedures. The cost advantage of day surgery is best achieved in free-standing centres or totally free-functioning units within hospitals.
Day care surgery is now a popular and preferred mode of treatment for most surgical patients. In the United Kingdom, 55% of elective surgery is carried out in an ambulatory setting. Over 50% of NHS hospitals have self-contained day surgery units and the Ministry of Health is targetting over 70% of elective surgery on an ambulatory basis by 2010.
