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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

In “Waste in the US Health Care System,” a team from Humana and the Univrsity of Pittsburgh recalibrated the previous finding of 30% of wasted spending to the 25%, which equates to a waste-range of $760 bn to $935 bn. health care system mightily. Lack of interoperability of data systems is one area that’s improving, slowly.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

The project includes identifying and defining high level architecture for the health domain in Rwanda, identification of appropriate standards, functional requirements and interoperability profiles across multiple business, and foundational domains.