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care home model and encouraged even more hospitals and clinics to form inter-institutional, inter- professional service teams. Up to now, 38 hospital groups and 201 hospitals have participated.
Expanding Family Doctor Integrated Care
To emphasize primary level community care, while also responding to the country’s aging population and concomitant increase in chronic diseases and the need to promote preventive medicine and hierarchically integrated medical system, the NHIA has been implementing the “Family Doctor Integrated Care Program” since 2003 as a means of establishing a localized family doctor system in Taiwan. Under this program, five or more primary-level clinics can organize community healthcare groups, which rely on collective resources to provide patient-centered holistic medical care. The program has also sought to boost the preventive healthcare implementation rate and quality of primary-level medicine through public health management and health education, and establish cooperative relationships among primary-level clinics and hospitals involving joint referrals, case review, and community health education activities. Under this program, the NHIA has established a 24-hour consulting hotline to ensure that the public can receive comprehensive, coordinated, and ongoing services.
In conjunction with promoting a tiered healthcare system, six medical strategies and 24 package measures, the 2018 family doctor integrated care project continues to expand primary care momentum, and actively promote substantial cooperation between community medical groups and cooperating hospitals’, which includes two-way referrals and joint care of chronic disease to ensure patient care continuity and coordination. Moreover, it promotes community medical groups’ to provide
照跨步精進 展望未來
Recent Progresses and Future Outlook
本署「醫療送到家」專案榮獲第一屆政府服務獎。
The NHIA was granted with 1st Government Service Award.
call out services to strengthen case management, enhance care quality, and establish differentiated service models with clinics.
As of the end of June 2018, 4,558 primary care clinics and 202 hospitals have jointly set up 567 medical groups who have jointly offered care to over 4.73 million accepted members. The NHIA will continue to encourage community medical groups to cooperate with pharmacies, public health centers, physical therapy institutions, and examination institutions and establish cooperated medical groups to provide rehabilitation, ophthalmology, and psychiatry medical services in order to enhance community medical groups’ care capacity to be able to provide localized holistic care and services.
Convenient and Responsive Services
Because caring for residents of remote areas has always been one of the NHIA’s top priorities, it implemented a plan to work with 10 city, district, and township offices in producing and issuing NHI cards on-site in 2016. This convenient service gives people living in rural areas the option of applying for and receiving a new NHI card within
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