Remote Healthcare Services Delivery by Health Information Technology Companies

Hakan Oğuz ARIa , Hüseyin ÇELİKb

aUniversity of Health Sciences Faculty of Gülhane Health Sciences, Department of Healthcare Management, Ankara, Türkiye
bRepublic of Türkiye Ministry of Health, Turkish Health Policies Institute, Ankara, Türkiye

ABSTRACT
Remote healthcare service delivery (RHSD) is a new model that all healthcare systems face, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Policymakers are implementing USHS to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, patients’ access to services and cost control. RHSD implementation in Türkiye started with the regulation issued in the first quarter of 2022. While health institutions authorized by the Ministry of Health can provide RHSD, this authorization has not been granted to the information technology (IT) companies that set up the infrastructure of this service. Increasing RHSD on a global scale have created a financing dimension. In this study, the current situation was analysed and recommendations were developed to the effect that granting this authority to IT companies operating in this field in Türkiye, provided that they fulfil the necessary conditions, would increase the share to be received from the global scale and that this window of opportunity could be used in favour of Türkiye.
Keywords: Delivery of healthcare; telemedicine; remote consultation

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