Improve Accreditation, Regulation, and Quality Standards : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change

In mature health systems, emerging health innovations require an adaptive and robust regulatory regime, alongside accreditation standards that are useful to consumers, to scale effectively. New health care modalities, including mobile apps and tele...

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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/304281560326531229/Improve-Accreditation-Regulation-and-Quality-Standards-for-Dignified-Person-centered-Care-Amidst-Demographic-Change
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spelling okr-10986-318592021-05-25T10:54:39Z Improve Accreditation, Regulation, and Quality Standards : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change HEALTH WORKERS HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY HEALTH APPS TELEMEDICINE HEALTH CARE REGULATION UNIVERSAL HEALTH STANDARDS TELEHEALTH MOBILE APPS LABOR FORCE MOBILITY LICENSING AUTHORITY ACCREDITATION STANDARD In mature health systems, emerging health innovations require an adaptive and robust regulatory regime, alongside accreditation standards that are useful to consumers, to scale effectively. New health care modalities, including mobile apps and telehealth, can help countries expand high-quality patient-centered care while responding to demographic changes. However, despite the potential usefulness of these innovative tools, most remain outside the scope of regulatory bodies, are not subject to quality or safety standards, and vary widely in their compliance with best practice. Inappropriate or misaligned regulatory regimes can also create unnecessary constraints to both cost-effective provision options such as telehealth, and also labor force mobility across sub-national and national borders. 2019-06-13T18:19:03Z 2019-06-13T18:19:03Z 2018-10 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/304281560326531229/Improve-Accreditation-Regulation-and-Quality-Standards-for-Dignified-Person-centered-Care-Amidst-Demographic-Change http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31859 English FLF Evidence Brief Series; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief European Union United States
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topic HEALTH WORKERS
HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY
HEALTH APPS
TELEMEDICINE
HEALTH CARE REGULATION
UNIVERSAL HEALTH STANDARDS
TELEHEALTH
MOBILE APPS
LABOR FORCE MOBILITY
LICENSING AUTHORITY
ACCREDITATION STANDARD
spellingShingle HEALTH WORKERS
HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY
HEALTH APPS
TELEMEDICINE
HEALTH CARE REGULATION
UNIVERSAL HEALTH STANDARDS
TELEHEALTH
MOBILE APPS
LABOR FORCE MOBILITY
LICENSING AUTHORITY
ACCREDITATION STANDARD
Improve Accreditation, Regulation, and Quality Standards : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
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description In mature health systems, emerging health innovations require an adaptive and robust regulatory regime, alongside accreditation standards that are useful to consumers, to scale effectively. New health care modalities, including mobile apps and telehealth, can help countries expand high-quality patient-centered care while responding to demographic changes. However, despite the potential usefulness of these innovative tools, most remain outside the scope of regulatory bodies, are not subject to quality or safety standards, and vary widely in their compliance with best practice. Inappropriate or misaligned regulatory regimes can also create unnecessary constraints to both cost-effective provision options such as telehealth, and also labor force mobility across sub-national and national borders.
format Brief
title Improve Accreditation, Regulation, and Quality Standards : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_short Improve Accreditation, Regulation, and Quality Standards : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_full Improve Accreditation, Regulation, and Quality Standards : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_fullStr Improve Accreditation, Regulation, and Quality Standards : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_full_unstemmed Improve Accreditation, Regulation, and Quality Standards : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_sort improve accreditation, regulation, and quality standards : for dignified, person-centered care amidst demographic change
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/304281560326531229/Improve-Accreditation-Regulation-and-Quality-Standards-for-Dignified-Person-centered-Care-Amidst-Demographic-Change
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