Healthcare

Healthcare is spending over two and a half trillion dollars every year. Eighteen percent of GPD is being wasted. That means that over seven hundred million dollars a year is just going down the drain. Healthcare costs are going up six to seven percent every year.  There are so many problems with Healthcare. One of them being that there are not many electronic health records. That causes a lot of problems one of them being money lost. It seems with the new Healthcare chances doctors are now being paid more for quantity rather than quality. U.S. healthcare spending is on track to double over the next ten years to five point two trillion dollars about twenty one percent of the gross domestic products. One way some of this could go toward the better is if they put in a good knowledge management system. This would help things run a lot better and faster. People would not have to fill out the same old paper work every time they went to the doctor. Same with doctors, they would not have to keep refilling out the same paper work over and over on the same patient. If there was ever a life or death situation this would be the best way to see records rather than having to search through pager files. If doctors use collaborative knowledge management just as we use in class everyday, they will be able to share their findings with colleagues and find ways to cure diseases so much faster. This is would help out the practice of the doctors a lot and would basically help everyone in our nation. Healthcare is not looking good right now but it seems that it is going to be a lot better in the future but that is going to come with a lot more spending of the U. S. tax dollars.