By The Numbers: report shows major flaws in the health care system

By The Numbers: report shows major flaws in the health care system -

Approximately 75,000 deaths could have been prevented in 05 if every state the United States had delivered care at the best performing state quality.

Some numbers are unforgettable. The statistics above was presented in a new Institute of Medicine
report which revealed that inefficiencies, rising growing costs and complexity have greatly affected the health care system in the United States for many years. These issues have slowed the progress of the industry in some of the following :.

• Health care costs have increased at a faster rate than the economy as a whole for the past 40 years 31
• About 30 percent of health spending 09 - $ 750 billion - was wasted on unnecessary expenses such as services, excessive administrative costs and fraud.
• The value of an increase of 30 per cent of income was destroyed by an increase of 76 percent of health care costs.

Now the good news. The report also found that the new technology tools that we did not have not led to us there 12 years - including mobile technologies and electronic health records - offer great potential for capturing and sharing of best data health. The power of these resources is vast, as these new technologies are accessible to collect and use clinical data at the point of care, involving patients and their families, and to promote teamwork and transparency within health care organizations.

The objectives listed above is important because, according to the report, achieving quality care at a lower cost, it will transform the health care system in the United States in a system oriented education. Improvements to the result of the adoption of this learning model based based on the systematic capture and wide dissemination of lessons learned to work directly with patients and new research findings.

Given the gravity of the situation, you may be wondering how the health care system in the US compares to other countries. Click here to find out more.

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