Reports Outline Health Insurance Study Findings from Second Military Medical University (Factors influencing two-way referral between hospitals and…

Reports Outline Health Insurance Study Findings from Second Military Medical University (Factors influencing two-way referral between hospitals and the community in China: A system dynamics simulation model)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Investigators publish new report on Health Insurance. According to news reporting originating from Shanghai, People's Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Two-way referrals between hospitals and community healthcare systems (CHSs) are important for optimizing the distribution of medical resources and enabling resource sharing, but referrals are always from CHSs to hospitals. A referral from the hospital to the community is rare in China; this has a highly negative impact on the long-term development of the Chinese health services."

Financial support for this research came from National Natural Science Foundation of China (see also Health Insurance).

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Second Military Medical University, "The aim of this study was to address influence factors in hospital-community referrals. We constructed a system dynamics model to address the problem of the two-way referral between hospitals and CHSs and identified potential countermeasures and possible solutions. The Vensim DSS program was used to construct a system dynamics model to represent the problem through model description, causal loop diagrams, and stock and flow diagrams. The model was used to perform intervention experiments, in which the influence on all the sectors of referrals could be observed by changing the system parameters. The experimental results showed a greater difference in medical costs between hospitals and CHSs, more investments to CHSs, higher levels of medical insurance of CHSs, and more referrals from hospitals to CHSs."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "The system can widen the price gap between hospitals and CHSs, increase information flow, improve medical insurance level of CHSs, and elevate the current level of CHSs through enabling two-way referral between hospitals and CHSs."

For more information on this research see: Factors influencing two-way referral between hospitals and the community in China: A system dynamics simulation model. Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2018;94(9):765-782. Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International can be contacted at: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting L.L. Zhang, Second Military Med Univ, Coll Hlth Serv, Inst Military Hlth Management, CPLA, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Y. Zhang, Y. Lu, W.Y. Yu, X. Nong and M.N. Li.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/0037549717741349. 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: Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Asia, Health and Medicine, Medical Insurance, Health Insurance, Hospitals, China, Asia, Second Military Medical University.

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