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U.S. Lags Behind in Healthcare Innovation, Sebelius Says
The federal government's top health official Thursday gave U.S. healthcare innovation a grade of Incomplete.
The federal government's top health official Thursday gave U.S. healthcare innovation a grade of Incomplete.
“That's really the great dichotomy of the time we're living in,” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. “We live in a 21st century world with a 20th century delivery system. We live in a world in which the National Cancer Institute is texting teens to convince them to quit smoking, but ask any parent how easy it is to get their kid's immunization report from the doctor's office.”
Although new health innovations, discoveries and technologies are allowing Americans to live longer, healthier lives, the processes of patient experience—such as how patients manage their health, how they choose a physician and how doctors work together to create a treatment plan—have not always kept pace with new medicines, vaccines and procedures, Sebelius said in addressing attendees at the Care Innovation Summit put on by the Aspen Institute and Advisory Board Co.
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Source: Modern Healthcare
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