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Interim Review of Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Scheme Food and Health Bureau Department of Health February 2011 Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region  Content EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I PURPOSE 1 BACKGROUND 1 POLICY ADDRESS 1 SCHEME OBJECTIVES 1 IMPLEMENTATION 2 SCHEME DESIGN AND FEATURES 2 Elderly persons eligible to participate in the Scheme 2 Healthcare service providers eligible to participate in the Scheme 2 Restrictions on the use of health care vouchers 2 SCHEME OPERATION 3 Mechanism for issuing and using health care vouchers 3 Arrangement for reimbursement of health care vouchers 4 eHealth System 4 Privacy Impact Assessment and Privacy Compliance Assessment 5 Security Risk Assessment and Audit 6 The electronic platform piloting a model for scheme administration 6 IMPROVEMENT MEASURES 7 Data input of claim transactions 7 Modification to Consent Form 7 No need to arrange Voucher Account Creation Form 8 Use of Smart Identity Card Reader 8 PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION 9 REIMBURSEMENT 10 POST‐CLAIM CHECKING AND AUDITING 10 Measures to prevent abuse of the Scheme 11 The Corruption Prevention Department of Independent Commission Against Corruption 12 The Audit Commission 12 INTERIM REVIEW 13 Objectives of the interim review 13 Methodology and source of findings 13 STATISTICS ON PARTICIPATION AND UTILIZATION 15 METHODOLOGY 15 RESULTS 15 Statistics on healthcare service providers 15 Number of enrolled healthcare service providers 15 Distribution of places of practice 15 Enrolment among healthcare professionals 18 Participation among healthcare professionals 20 Enrolment and withdrawal of healthcare professionals 21 Statistics on the elderly 23 Number of elderly people joining the Scheme 23 Voucher utilization pattern 23 Number of eHealth accounts created 23 Number of claim transactions made 25 Number of eHealth accounts with zero balance of voucher 25 Distribution of claim tran