Now that U.S. healthcare costs are approaching an eye-popping 25 percent of GDP and barely 30 percent of U.S. doctors work in primary care, it is time for us to pay attention.
This guest post was written by Keith Figlioli, the senior vice president of healthcare informatics for the Premier healthcare alliance, a national performance improvement alliance of more than 2, 600 U.S. hospitals and 84, 000-plus other healthcare sites using the power of collaboration to lead the transformation to high-quality, cost-effective care.
Other companies that derive more than 30% of their revenues from the U.S. are healthcare group Fresenius, supermarket chain Ahold, drug-makers Roche and Sanofi-Aventis, and Nestle.
These venture-backed healthcare delivery organizations were forced to look beyond the traditional U.S.based technology vendors optimized around the flawed reimbursement model that will rapidly wane over the next 2-5 years.
According to research compiled by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the percentage of false-positive readings is between 7% and 8% for women aged 40 to 59 who took the test.
Only 0.2 percent of the businesses in the U.S. with more than 50 employees do not already provide healthcare insurance to full-time employees.
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Consumers and healthcare professionals can access reliable information on over 1, 000 health-related issues at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' healthfinder web site, www.healthfinder.gov.
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