• DocumentCode
    191280
  • Title

    Outsourcing and off-shoring healthcare services: A way to cut the costs and improve quality

  • Author

    Glaa, Besma ; Zoghlami, Nesrine ; Taghipour, Atour

  • Author_Institution
    Linköping University Linköping Sweden
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    1-3 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    189
  • Lastpage
    194
  • Abstract
    Cutting the costs of healthcare services and improving the quality of care are the major goals of every healthcare system around the world. With the acceleration of globalization, healthcare services were not immune from these forces and were impacted by the explosion of healthcare outsourcing and off-shoring. In this paper, we will try to explore outsourcing and off-shoring healthcare services as a way of cutting costs and improving quality of care and we will analyze the cost effectiveness of healthcare intervention and compare its values between home country and outsourcing countries.
  • Keywords
    Biomedical imaging; Hospitals; Outsourcing; Prosthetics; Standards; Surgery; Costs; globalization; healthcare; off-shoring; outsourcing; quality;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT), 2014 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hammamet, Tunisia
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864116
  • Filename
    6864116