tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post7727841713693336712..comments2024-03-24T06:35:14.281+00:00Comments on The Portuguese Economy: The Memo and the health sector adjustmentsEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16779405217168307855noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-90288384653185900562011-05-10T00:00:47.173+01:002011-05-10T00:00:47.173+01:00I just wonder what are our politicians planning to...I just wonder what are our politicians planning to do about this... if they're really planning anything!<br />A few years ago, someone asked an English official what did the English thought about the Lisbon Treaty. He laughed and said "this is like the rules of a golf club"... Unfortunately, I'm afraid in Portugal there are many people in the two main parties thinking just the same way about this agreement...!<br /><br />PS - Like many other people, I got very surprised with our bailout terms and contitions (I was expecting more money, higher interest rates and harder constraints). We got a very good deal, given the circunstances. Will we be up to the job? That's the 78-billion euros question!Vladimiro Jorge Silvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364451280020525689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-10929363485938460062011-05-07T17:22:42.220+01:002011-05-07T17:22:42.220+01:00Vladimiro
You touch a fundamental issue:
are we ...Vladimiro<br /><br />You touch a fundamental issue: <br />are we (all of us) taking this memorandum seriously, and start working to get it done?<br /><br />or are we trying to move around it, with announcements doing just lip service to the memorandum?<br /><br />I give a non-negligible probability to the second chance, and the coming days will show the option our Government takes.<br /><br />We should keep in mind two points:<br />- the IMF some years let Argentina go into recession, and very hard times, because they did not follow the agreement; they tried a change and the IMF simply stopped the bailout. I doubt we are more relevant than Argentina.<br />- why not have our own team with the duty of monthly reporting the progress, so that we do not have any surprise at the reviews of the IMF/ECB/EC? get some people that will have the task of being as harsh as they will be, and detect earlier any problems.<br /><br />I know, this is wishful thinking...Pedro Pita Barroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06815442258471690758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-78981439787619094172011-05-07T15:12:57.897+01:002011-05-07T15:12:57.897+01:00Dear Prof.,
Don't you think the State lacks c...Dear Prof.,<br /><br />Don't you think the State lacks capacity to monitor all of this? In Portugal we don't have a good tradition on controlling our Health sector performance... We'd probably need a NICE to do it effectively! <br />How will we manage to cope with these demandings in a serious way?<br /><br />PS - I totally agree with you on your analysis - but I just can't see all of this happening at the same time...!Vladimiro Jorge Silvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364451280020525689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-11212217723945794772011-05-07T14:36:47.137+01:002011-05-07T14:36:47.137+01:00Carlos,
Sure! improving the transparency of the a...Carlos, <br />Sure! improving the transparency of the accounts of the NHS is crucial. Doing the benchmark exercises needs comparable information across all units - including old/traditional public sector hospitals, the EPE and the PPP Hospitals in the hospital sector, and the USF and primary care centre.Pedro Pita Barroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06815442258471690758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-85122765869776561852011-05-07T12:50:14.836+01:002011-05-07T12:50:14.836+01:00It's very comprehensive blog for health issue....It's very comprehensive blog for health issue. ThanksDr Jonathan Bermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03567362043752337273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-30163580608089992602011-05-07T12:45:16.553+01:002011-05-07T12:45:16.553+01:00And how about improving the transparency of the ac...And how about improving the transparency of the accounts of the SNS? <br />Does it makes any sense, from an economic point of view that hospitals are not all considered in the public sector in the national accounts (S13)? This independently of the formal esa95 rules.Carlos Marinheirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17674453793029946446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-18358957133236464292011-05-07T00:41:42.788+01:002011-05-07T00:41:42.788+01:00IT system
Dear Pedro, this was too long to put on ...IT system<br />Dear Pedro, this was too long to put on the wall but if the SNS is searching for an electronic medical records system that incorporates both hospital and outpatient clinic info you should see the one we have at the VA. It incorporates all clinical info such as lab results, providers notes, CT and MRI scans, even records for when a patient is seen outside the VA scan be scanned and incorporated into the system. There are also clincal reminders for physicians indicating when a patient needs a particular screening or vaccine and the pharmaceutical end checks for missed fills on medicines and alerts the provider that the patient is behind. The nordic countries or some others may already have a more advanced system but I tell you no private system in the US even comes close to the VA which is now being merged with Department of Defense's system as well so we have the info on what happend to the patient while they were active duty military. Of course the system is centralized nationally on servers so we can see everything from any of the 145 VA medical centers in the US. Best of luck with everything! Libby DismukePedro Pita Barroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06815442258471690758noreply@blogger.com