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Debate Over Health Care Reform: Dealing With A Value Chain

Gainesville Sun 9/4/2009 -
Health care reform plans have attracted extremes in media coverage. The overhauling is being exposed and widely discussed in its social, political, entrepreneur, legal, and of course economic viewpoint. Although all attention is on how to build consensus, there is much more to heal about healthcare. 

About 50 million Americans are living without health insurance today. Expanding Medicaid eligibility for those citizens will certainly bring beneficial results, but is the American health system ready for this? What about Optional Home Nurses Visits? Can hospitals survive health care reform?

Excessive wait times, lack of information, shortage of integration between departments, inadequate databases, and insufficient staff are attributes often found in hospitals, where business optimization techniques have been seldom applied. Quantitative analysis experts can state precisely which technology can be applied to support decision making, in order to quantify costs and performance goals.

The present health care condition urges a debate over which unit, department, hospital or clinic are able to provide efficiency during and after the changes acquired from the reform. It is time for a new “stress test”, this time not on U.S. banks, but on the overall health care system (news and press release).

A very active debate will continue nationally, looking for regulations, new programs and policy. However, a fundamental shift to a smarter, fact-based health care system has to be applied to the present scenario. An optimized system with more predictive information strategy can present solutions to this essential value chain.

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