Despite huge government spending on medicare and medicaid, initiating affordable healthcare reform remains elusive in the US. Though finding a new cure or treatment marks a sense of achievement subsidizing such treatment continues to be a cause for concern. Is altruism in healthcare worth the trouble? Find out.
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Personalized medicine is gaining credence thanks to progress registered in genetics and rapid genome sequencing. Though it may ring in enormous benefits to patients and improve the healthcare system, it is costly and requires high level of operational transparency. Learn how personalized treatment differs from traditional medicine.
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There is a tremendous opportunity for IT firms in helping healthcare companies meet with their compliance requirements. However, many enterprises are tackling the issue in a reactive way rather than a proactive way. Infosys endeavors to reduce the cost of compliance so that hospitals can find out sooner rather than later whether they are functioning properly. And IT is doing its part to help the healthcare industry operate more efficiently.
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Today's healthcare systems have numerous compliance requirements and also need to streamline administrative costs. IT helps in providing a solution that is visible in every link of the healthcare chain. In U.S. hospital treatments are tracked closely, and reimbursements are doled out based on performance. The trillion dollar question on the minds of healthcare practitioners is, "How do we keep paying for all of this?"
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