FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC COMPONENT OF THE INFORMATION AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICE DELIVERY IN UKRAINE
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The article examines the financial and economic component of information and the legal framework for healthcare service delivery in Ukraine in the context of the digital transformation of healthcare and the modernisation of the public administration system. The relevance of the topic is due to the rapid growth of the role of the latest information and communication technologies in the process of ensuring the appropriate level of accessibility, quality and continuity of medical services. This is coupled with the emergence of the need to form effective mechanisms for financial and economic support for the modern digital infrastructure of the healthcare sector. The purpose of the study is twofold: firstly, to comprehensively determine the essence, content and significance of the financial and economic framework for healthcare service delivery; and secondly, to substantiate the directions of its further improvement in Ukraine. The object of the study is the social relations that arise during the digitalisation of healthcare service delivery. The methodological basis of the study comprises general scientific and special legal methods of cognition. These include dialectical, system-structural, formal-legal, comparative-legal, logical-semantic and functional methods. This paper analyses modern scientific approaches to understanding the information and legal support for providing medical services. It reveals the role of information as a managerial and economic resource and determines the role of financial and economic instruments in ensuring the functioning of digital medical infrastructure. The study provides a distinctive definition of the financial and economic aspects of the legal and informational framework for healthcare service delivery. The results of the study showed that the financial and economic component is one of the system-defining elements of the information and legal framework for the provision of healthcare services, as it is precisely through mechanisms such as budgetary funding, state financial guarantees, local co-funding, international technical assistance and public-private partnerships that the functioning of the electronic healthcare system, electronic prescriptions, electronic referrals, telemedicine services and other digital tools is ensured. The practical significance of the research results lies in the development of scientific approaches to enhancing the financial support for the digital transformation of healthcare. These approaches include the introduction of medium-term budget planning, an economic audit of digital medical services, cost monitoring systems and the use of big data analytics to manage medical service resources.
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information and legal framework, healthcare service delivery, healthcare, digitalisation, financial and economic component, public administration, medicine, budget financing, electronic medical services
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