Cameric Re-sets the Balance
between Costs and Technology

A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows Americans spend considerably more money on health care services than other industrialized countries. Despite the added cost, they do not buy more care. The article made MEDICA’s Portal “Top News in Public Health” on May 7, 2003,

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Cameric Offers Sizable
Advantages in Health Care
 Improvement and Reduced
Costs

Findings of the 2002 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey were released in the May/June 2003 issue of Health Affairs. Sicker adults in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand were the focus of the fifth in a series of surveys started in 1998. All five countries have concerns with quality and the patients’ experiences high on their policy agendas. Sicker adults are sensitive indicators because they are among the most dependent on medical care. They are also the most vulnerable to variations in the system’s quality and outcomes.  The study was conducted by Robert Blendon and Colleagues.  Blendon is a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health.  Representatives of the Harvard School of Public Health, Commonwealth Fund, and Harris Interactive were the team of experts for this 2002 survey. 
 

Advanced industrialized countries are now working to redesign their medical care delivery systems to make them more effective, efficient, safe, and responsive to patients. In the four non-U.S. countries, shortages of health professionals and/or hospital beds, waiting times, and inadequate government funding were the top concerns. In all five countries dissatisfaction was related to inadequate patient-physician communication,

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