Benchmark of administrative efficiency
Administrative work of healthcare is the raw material desktop and without
many of work preparation and tabulation will be scattered and become useless.
But the truth about administrative work is like a watery unites of management;
there are no demarcations in order to define the borders and boundaries for checking
and further development. In this benchmark we are going to draw some sort of
demarcation lines to be in mind account when medical professionals work with
healthcare systems and other management supportive unites. The importance of
this benchmark lied in being the first line of patients dealing platform and
also data management platform. You can remember when you visited last time a hospital
with supposed professional integrated employees; what you felt at that time and
what was your impression about the service and other neglecting signs!.
Exactly; this is the main aim of administration efficiency to reach point of
good impression and build subconscious loyalty lead the patient to feel
comfortable when they get their medical care and get their demands. Exhaustion
and drained effort of patient is repellent in medical care systems, indirectly
even build loyalty not only with medical care but exceed that to reach loyalty
to government and country sometimes. One
hint here I like much to mention that when country enemies like to destruct
loyalty atmosphere of public toward the home country, they easily working to
ruin education quality and healthcare loyalty through implanting less qualified
or agenda oriented employees to build repellent living standards for most of
citizens then forcing them implicitly to move and leave the country and there
are many examples prove this plan. Please look below to find the main work
skeleton of administrative efficiency and benchmark for further development and
progress:
1. Minimize
administrative overheads
Appropriate technology acquisition (Purchase- Maintenance- Training)
Reduce excessive marketing costs (hospitals or plans)
Efficient use of personnel (Reduction of excess- Appointments and
promotions based on competence)
Appropriate economies of scale adequate risk pools for insurers
Reduction of
duplicate structures, including integration of vertically organized programmes
Minimize transaction costs (Enrolment and non enrolment costs)
Oversupply of some services in some areas:
2. Cost-reducing purchasing
Reduce price
variation
Drug cost
reduction through large scale purchasing
Reliance on (quality) generics where possible
3. Minimize cost shifting
Cost shifting from PC to tertiary
Cost shifting
to patients
Cost shifting
to public sector or insurance from other types
Cost shifting between schemes
4. Minimize abuse and fraud and inappropriate incentives
Shadow
providers, partial and total
Practitioner
auto-referral
Drug sales at
profit by rural doctor
Billing practices
Unqualified practitioners in rural areas
Inappropriate promotion of drugs and devices. Full health J

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