US Healthcare a brief explanation

US healthcare is one of the poorly constructed healthcare systems in the world.

Do you find my statement non-sense ?.. If so you are wrong. The above statement is absolute truth. We do  not realize how bad it was.

The major problem in US is that they took a lot of time in adapting to things. Best example HIT adaptation, By 2004 president George W Bush said a open statement in state of the union address . Bush’s goal is to develop computrized electronic observation to reduce risk ,cost and everything, he wanted to develop a standard universal healthcare standard by 2014 and allocated fund for this Electronic medical record adaptation in all clinics and hospitals.

There was a journal published by New England Paper of Medicine (a renowned medical journal) in 2008 that only 4% of the physicians have adopted HIT standards in their hospitals or clinics later that by 2009 another paper was published which said that only 1.5% of non-federal hospitals have electronic medical recording based systems in their hospitals. Look at the very low adaptation rate!!.. This is just a sample. This low rate of people adapting leads to standards led to federal action.

Value-based healthcare is later introduced by president Obama added more incentive to speed up this process as a part of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009 he set some 20 to 30 million dollars by the side to adapt a program called HITECH to adapt medical records

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