

healthcare can simply no longer afford to be a trillions-of-dollars-a-year ‘mom and pop shop’-type cottage industry.” What’s more, it will require the extreme optimization of healthcare delivery and administration processes, using those IT tools, solutions, and systems. Because, in order to bend that five-and-a-half-trillion-dollars-plus annual expenditures curve even a little bit, will require a massive investment in, and successful implementation of, excellent health information technology. healthcare spending will rise from $3.3013 trillion in 2014 to $5.631 trillion in 2025, “that figure meets the day-to-day working reality of CIOs, CMIOs, and other healthcare IT leaders, in medical groups, hospitals, and health systems.

To this end, as Healthcare Informatics Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland wrote recently, regarding the Health Affairs estimation that U.S. But, as costs continue to rise and with an aging population and an explosion in chronic disease nationwide, more transformation is needed.

In recent years, there have been various areas of amazing advancements in healthcare IT.
