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Stephen C Schimpff's Blog – June 2010 Archive (2)
A Disease Industry vs. A Healthcare System
Today America does not have a true healthcare system that focuses on wellness and disease prevention. Rather it focuses on disease diagnosis and treatment paid for on a unit basis. Each visit, each procedure, each test, each drug, each hospitalization is charged for. The result is more and more units of care are given rather than a focus on how to give good preventive care and how to coordinate the care of those with complex chronic illnesses. As long as we have a disease industry – driven by… Continue
Added by Stephen C Schimpff on June 24, 2010 at 5:36pm — 3 Comments
Turbulence Ahead in Health Care
The decade ahead is one likely to be full of turbulence. How everything will shake out is anybody’s guess.
But we can be sure that technology advancements will slow for no one. The rate of medical technology advancement now is very fast and the speed will only accelerate. One big problem is that technology advances so fast that there is no time for a purchase – say new CT scanner or diagnostic device in a clinical laboratory – to create any return on the investment before a new or… Continue
But we can be sure that technology advancements will slow for no one. The rate of medical technology advancement now is very fast and the speed will only accelerate. One big problem is that technology advances so fast that there is no time for a purchase – say new CT scanner or diagnostic device in a clinical laboratory – to create any return on the investment before a new or… Continue
Added by Stephen C Schimpff on June 10, 2010 at 4:26pm — No Comments
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