Outsourcing is Exploding in Health Care

Outsourcing Traditionally, hospitals and health care systems have mainly outsourced support services such as housekeeping, laundry, food and so on. They contract with large organizations, utilize economies of scale to outsource these services, thereby reducing overall costs. Recent trends in outsourcing of information technology services and outsourcing of medical services such as dialysis anesthesia and emergency department personnel placement, resident and imaging diagnostic trends (Punke, 2013), and hospital system integration over the past few years

The medical industry has changed dramatically in the past 20 years. "In the past 20 years medical technology has evolved not only in the field of medical diagnosis and treatment but also in the fields of health information and literature" (Patient Care Art, 2008, p. 1). Twenty years ago, the technology of Ebukyo Hospital was limited. The use of paper documents for patient records is a thing of the past. Today Riverview Hospital uses electronic medical record (EMR). "EMR collects and stores patient data electronically and provides this information to healthcare providers as needed so that clinicians can enter orders directly into the computerized health care provider input system. Workers will provide advice to obtain guidelines based on the latest research results and appropriate evidence (Wagner, Lee, & Glaser, 2009, p.1)

The current challenges faced by US healthcare systems are certainly not unique and healthcare systems worldwide are rapidly growing under the pressure of aging, the sharp increase in medical expenses, and reliance on expensive high-tech solutions and procedures doing. Developed countries are struggling to balance the three common concerns of modern medicine, cost, access, and quality. Developed countries have chosen a variety of approaches to address common concerns. In this article we will look at three industrialized democratic healthcare systems in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands. By comparing the US health care system with other health care systems, we hope to find ways the United States can adapt to strengthen our own health care system. Various approaches have been devised to simplify comparative analysis of international healthcare systems. How to classify healthcare systems based on private and public spectrum