But some changes, including more efficient clinics and penny-pinching consumers, will mean spending will rise more slowly than it might have otherwise.
They posited that more than half of the deceleration could be explained by more persistent changes, including skimpier insurance (which prompts individuals to buy less care), more efficient clinics and the slower development of pricey new technologies.
Given the human resource shortages Tanzania faces, we are not suggesting that providers should spend more time with patients, but that understanding the factors that contribute to more efficient clinic visits is crucial for balancing human resource constraints with providing both effective and quality care.
Dr. Lehman hopes eventually to set up a more efficient breast clinic, where women waiting to be seen would sort themselves into "more and less worrisome groups" by matching their symptoms to images on a laminated card.
Comcast, America's largest cable-television provider, offers it to its workers.Attempts to make hospitals and clinics more efficient by building huge, centralised IT systems have a sorry history—just look at the failed patient-record system for Britain's National Health Service, scrapped at a cost of around £10 billion ($15 billion).
A paper by the Congressional Budget Office suggests that over the previous decade providers were trimming costs, for example by treating beneficiaries at lower-cost clinics, adopting more efficient procedures and introducing new technology more slowly.Much of the American health-care system still clings to fee-for-service.
It would be a more efficient way to run our clinics".
The single-cell immunofluorescence assay for TdT, which requires < 0·1% of the cells used in a conventional biochemical assay, is highly specific, and could provide a technically more efficient alternative for use in clinics as well as in experimental investigations of subpopulations of leukaemic and normal marrow cells.
This was more efficient and advanced than any clinic I have seen in the West.
Equipped with this information, policy makers and health centres managers could proactively improve the efficiency of primary delivery by transferring clinic staff to more efficient health centres that will enhance the capacity of primary health sector to response to the needs of the people.
This could imply that the more natural of the two applications of the model, which is more easily integrated into existing HIV clinics, is the more efficient one, although whether or not this would be the case outside of a research study under routine clinical and laboratory systems remains to be seen.
