Health Care Spending And Use Of Information Technology In OECD Countries

In 2003, the United States had fewer practicing physicians, practicing nurses, and acute care bed days per capita than the median country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Nevertheless, U.S. health spending per capita was almost two and a half times the per capita...

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Published in:Health Affairs 2006-05, Vol.25 (3), p.819-831
Main Authors: Anderson, Gerard F, Frogner, Bianca K, Johns, Roger A, Reinhardt, Uwe E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Comparative analysis
Cooperation
Cost control
Costs
Economic aspects
Electronic health records
Finance
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health insurance
Health planning
Health policy
Hospitals
Information technology
Medical personnel
Medicare
Patient safety
Per capita
Pharmaceuticals
Physicians
Public health
Technological change
United States
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Summary:In 2003, the United States had fewer practicing physicians, practicing nurses, and acute care bed days per capita than the median country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Nevertheless, U.S. health spending per capita was almost two and a half times the per capita health spending of the median OECD country. One proposal for both lowering health spending and improving quality is the adoption of health information technology (HIT). The United States lags as much as a dozen years behind other industrialized countries in HIT adoption-countries where national governments have played major roles in establishing the rule, and health insurers have paid most of the costs. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0278-2715
1544-5208
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.25.3.819