There are various types of healthcare delivery systems available today and these are basically the advanced forms of healthcare systems that benefit patients. Healthcare systems are complex and there are many things you need to know. A hospital system is a group of hospitals or facilities that work together to provide services to their communities. Different types of hospital systems have different types of ownership and financial goals. Types of hospital systems include public hospitals, non-profit hospitals, and private hospitals. Public hospitals are funded and owned by local state or federal governments. Public hospitals receive money from the government, and some public hospitals are associated with medical schools. Non-profit hospitals are often community hospitals. Nonprofit hospitals may also be connected to a religious denomination. The purpose of nonprofit hospitals is to provide a service to the community. Private hospitals are owned by shareholders. Their goal is to earn a profit for investors. Private hospitals tend to offer more lucrative services such as rehabilitation, elective or plastic surgery, or cardiology. They try to avoid unprofitable services like emergency medicine, which can lose money due to uninsured patients. There are different types of assistance for patients, depending on their needs. These types of patient care include primary care, specialty care, emergency care, urgent care, long-term care, hospice care, and mental health care. Healthcare involves a diverse set of public and private data collection systems. This includes health surveys, administrative records, billing records and medical records. All the information collected is used by various individuals, including...... half of the document ...... session performance and results. Once quality indicators have been established, data must be collected to evaluate performance against each indicator. Because information collection is so vital to quality assessment and performance improvement, the quality management plan should describe procedures for collecting and organizing data. This means identifying the sources of the data, the frequency of data collection, the sample size, the people responsible for collecting the data, the frequency of reporting, and to whom the information is communicated. The plan should also present detailed procedures for analyzing data. Works Cited http://www.navigant.com/industries/healthcare/payer%20strategy/delivery%20systems/ http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/healthcare/ http: //www.ahrq.gov/research/ findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata5.htmlhttp://executionmih.com/data-quality/accuracy-consistency-audit.php