Besides understanding the best payment model, there are other factors needing for the success of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) rollout as this will affect in the long run the pricing and the raising of funds.
A healthcare investor Jayesh Saini points out that to ensure value-based, patient-centric care is provided effectively and in a timely manner, parameters such as how the financial resources shall be accrued, human capital requirements and how to ensure it is available, technology within facilities and departments and across facilities should be in place. He points out that it is important that as fees are set, the entire ecosystem is put into consideration to make sure no investor is disadvantaged over the other but that each has a return on their investments, whether the private or public sector or the populace who are contributing to for their healthcare.
The governments and other investors will also need to consider factors key in preventive health as a means of reducing medical bills in the short term and expenditure in the long run. Such will include health education through online mediums or barazas, carrying out prevention awareness drives, carrying out analytics on behavior patterns, medicine consumption, disease patterns, regional (county based) patterns pertaining to health towards providing better, more focused intervention which is bound to be effective.
Qualitative and quantitative assessment of provider organizations whether hospitals or clinics, suppliers of medical products such as drugs and non-pharma products would ensure positive competition aimed at increasing efficiency, improved patient delight and understanding of any needs or missing links in the health system for corrective measures. This would aid in helping overcoming challenges to implementing the set programs and schemes. At the same time there should be continuous collaboration, assessment and feedback from payers and providers to enable success the medical.
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