What is it about?
This article describes the issues in health care related to the rise of cases with dry eye and problems of financing such care. Care must be more team based, multidisciplinary, and costed for value of care instead of volume based services. The importance of coordinated care, common protocols and pathways, as well as communication is emphasized.
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Why is it important?
With the worries about the sustainability of health care, there is a need to restructure how services in dry eye are provided. A common disease condition that is chronic like dry eye can be instructional for healthcare planning and organisation of services in the future.
Perspectives
Healthcare transformation in Singapore involves the three beyonds: Beyond healthcare to health, Beyond hospital to community, and Beyond quality to value. All three aspects are discussed in this article in relation to dry eye.
Prof Louis Tong
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: From Volume to Value: Prospects and Pitfalls in Organising Integrated Dry Eye Practice Units, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology, January 2017, OMICS Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.4172/2155-9570.1000658.
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