Healthcare and the Coming Informatics Revolution

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Abstract

Healthcare is the largest industry in the world, and set to grow even larger as the world's population ages. Presently, the US leads the world in medical technology; it also spends twice as much per capita on healthcare as other developed nations, the result of inefficiencies in the system and the increasing demands of risk management as medicine grows technologically more complex. The total cost of the US system is $2 trillion annually or around 16% of US GDP, and employs 14 million people, or about 10% of the US labor force.

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© 2010, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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