Health Care Problems?

The Health Care industry is a multi-billion mess, that a information system can only fix. After learning about how much money is waisted in the form of misdiagnosis, malpractice law suites,  redundancy with patient data, and the many job positions that could be handle by a information system is completely ridiculous. The current system of most major health care providers is not evening close to closing the gap to our foreign competitors. Most of the major U.S. healthcare providers are implementing new systems, but the laws and regulations usually allow Doctors to have the final words if the system is needed or not. These laws and regulations are ruining the economic structure of the U.S., as well as our health care system. Doctors need to push their own personal agendas to the side, and realize what their sole purpose in should be, which is helping human life. A high level information system could not only save lives, but save society, and the health care industry billions. At Brighan & Women's (a Partners HealthCare institution) they are already on the path in using a knowledge information system with-in their daily work duties. Their system is a good map for many other hospitals to replicate. In a perfect world under a high level knowledge information system we can visualize going to any type of doctor for any reason, and the paper work process is completely eliminated. Because, all your personal heath care information is now stored on a global health care database. Everything that has ever been done medically to your body, is now at the click of a mouse of your treating physician. Human health care is always going to be in high demand, and to be able to offer high quality care, but at a cheaper cost to the patient, will require a global health care information system. This should and needs to be the new vision of the U.S. health care industry.