Healthcare services: Literature

A portrait and a path to successful transformation

The medical home – A foundation for transformation.

Service-oriented architecture can help the many countries and organizations struggling to address rapidly rising healthcare costs, through efficient and effective information management

Imaging biomarkers hold great promise to assuage some of society’s costliest challenges, and technology can accelerate progress as the full ecosystem - including government, academia, BioPharma industry and imaging industry - contributes toward achieving this vision.

As the healthcare industry faces many challenges to the status quo worldwide, we envision the need for proactive, collaborative, systemic responses that will help providers to transform their existing service delivery models and to develop five essential competencies.

India's healthcare system faces considerable challenges, including quality of care, rising costs, and insufficient access for many citizens, but has the opportunity to avoid many of the problems faced by other developing countries by transforming health care financing, quality and delivery.

In the coming decade, U.S. health plans will have decided which competencies are most important so they can adapt to major changes in how healthcare is purchased, consumed and delivered.

To make serious strides toward improving patient health, the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries need to marshall their collective data assets and collaborate more closely.

The development of the healthcare sector is now far behind economic development in China. A review of China's key health indicators makes clear the case for change.

E-Detailing can strengthen the pharmaceutical-physician relationship by offering physicians an opportunity to improve the way they work, and at the same time, cut costs and increase revenues for pharmaceutical companies.

IBM Business Consulting Services conducted the 2004 IBM European supply chain survey with L'Usine Nouvelle magazine. This survey identifies current practices, significant trends and operational performance benchmarks in five key areas of supply chain management (SCM).

This survey identifies current practices, captures significant trends and establishes operational performance benchmarks in five key areas of supply chain management (SCM): new product development, supply chain planning, customer order management, procurement and logistics.

The healthcare and pharmaceutical industries have been buzzing with the promise of personalized healthcare since the inception of the human genome project. As this decade unfolds, information technology will accelerate the delivery of advances in medical science and technology to the public.