Health Care Systems

Type

Contribution of consumerism in Disease management.

Promotion of wellness and disease prevention.

Consumerism in care utilization.

Patients benefits

· Improves management of chronic diseases

· Reduced need for monitoring and care of unscheduled visits.

· Offers the convenience patients crave (Pratt, 2019).

· Consumerism generally improves health.

· Consumerism offers high potential for financial rewards.

· Patients get involve in their health decisions (Shrank, 2017).

· Guides patients on how to take care of their health.

· Patients adopt healthy habits.

· Guides patients in making decisions on type of care.

· Enhances convenience through time saving.

· Patients receive personalized care (Shrank, 2017).

· Aligns patients with appropriate care settings

Incentives

· Easy to use remote devices.

· Discounted premiums for program enrollment (Pratt, 2019).

· Health providers get appropriate reimbursement.

· In consumerism there is a performance reward.

· Health providers get compensation for extra programs such as support groups.

· There are discounted copays.

· Availability if virtual triage support for the patients (Shrank, 2017).

· Consumerism has enhanced the affordability of health care.

Provider benefits

· Improves the overall care they provide (Pratt, 2019).

· Facilitates home based diagnostic.

· Enhances the health metrics.

· Health providers can categorize care (Pratt, 2019).

· Enables better monitoring of patients.

· Aligns patients with care settings.

· Use of new models eases the supply constraints.