PBS Tuesday night lineup
Posted by jonathan - 23/04/08 at 08:04:21 amPBS has captured my attention on Tuesday nights with its primetime line up of Nova and Frontline. Yes I watch tv on tv and I don’t own a tivo, how old fashion of me. Luckily for you pbs, frontline, has a nice online archive of shows for you to watch on your computer. Yesterday’s hot politics earth day message, did not provide many new tidbits for me, but last weeks Sick Around the World did.
Sick Around the World compares our healthcare system with 5 other developed nations, Japan, UK, Germany Switzerland and Taiwan. Most interesting to me and why I want to move into healthcare information management is that the US spends more money as a percentage of gdp on healthcare but we consistently stack rank in the 30s in terms of health care delivered. Moreover our administrative costs for healthcare usually run in the teen to twenty percent range while other developed countries run at a much leaner 5-6% administrative costs. Every time I fill out an almost identical form at the doctors office I am reminded of how last century healthcare delivery is compared to other industries. The battle to modernize not only healthcare administration, but delivery of better care through user generated content is a battle worth fighting.
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