The German health care system: a model for hospital reform in the United States?

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Germany's social insurance program provides affordable, comprehensive health insurance coverage for all Germans. The program has contained medical-care costs and maintained health-care-expenditure increases consistent with the consumer price index since its inception in 1883. The American health care system could emulate the German system with the creation of a federal commission to set aside a percentage of the gross domestic product for health care costs and to oversee national health care goals.

Accident and health insurance, Economic aspects, Germany, Social policy, Health insurance, National health insurance

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Utilization care plans and effective patient data management

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The effective communication of utilization-review data is vital to a utilization-management program's success. Utilization care plan (UCP) systems can facilitate utilization-review data communication by reminding caregivers to provide patient services and monitoring the provision of those services. Computer-based UCPs can also document and highlight deviations from prescribed service programs.

Hospitals, Health care industry, Technology application

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