Recent Reports from Iran University of Medical Sciences Highlight Findings in Health Insurance (The challenges of strategic purchasing of healthcare…

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Recent Reports from Iran University of Medical Sciences Highlight Findings in Health Insurance (The challenges of strategic purchasing of healthcare services in Iran Health Insurance Organization: a qualitative study)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Investigators publish new report on Health Insurance. According to news reporting out of Tehran, Iran, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "Strategic purchasing in healthcare services is a key component in improving health system performance, and it has been one of the most important issues in health system reform around the world, especially Europe in the last decade. Iran health system and insurance, although sometimes considered the issue of strategic purchasing goals, has not been made possible to achieve or even to implement, due to the associated problems."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Iran University of Medical Sciences, "To determine the associated problems of strategic purchasing in the Iran Health Insurance Organization (IHIO). This study is a qualitative study, and framework analysis which was conducted in Iran in 2014-15. The participants in this study were 34 individuals from decision-makers and executives in the IHIO purchasing process, and university experts who have been chosen purposefully. This study conducted frame analysis, by using MAXQDA 10. The findings included associated problems of IHIO strategic purchasing in 12 themes and 65 subthemes. The themes included: Laws and regulations for purchasing, Organization of purchasing, Qualified and authorized providers, Right type of services, Right type of contracts, Target groups for purchasing, Resources allocation, financing and pricing system, Purchasing as improving performance and quality, Purchasing as shaping the market and competition, Purchasing as health progress state of people and society, Guided purchasing and stewardship of government, Structure of decision-making process in the health and welfare ministries. The findings of this study showed associated problems in IHIO strategic purchasing."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "To achieve strategic purchasing goals in Iran, identification of all issues and factors of the total insurers and health system sets which affect strategic purchasing is essential."

For more information on this research see: The challenges of strategic purchasing of healthcare services in Iran Health Insurance Organization: a qualitative study. Electronic Physician, 2018;10(2):6299-6306 (see also Health Insurance).

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting H.A. Gorji, Associate Professor, Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Additional authors for this research include S.MSP. Mousavi, A. Shojaei, A. Keshavarzi and H. Zare.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.19082/6299. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Iran, Asia, Tehran, Health Insurance, Health and Medicine.