Grit Daily February 20, 2020
Ask any foreigner what they think of America’s healthcare system; you’ll hear words like “strange” and “dysfunctional”. Healthcare in the US currently fosters a type of willful ignorance around knowing the state of one’s physical wellbeing. Benicomp, a healthcare company based out of Tampa, is taking a ‘knowledge is power’ approach to healthcare, and using technology to do so.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shared a peer-reviewed article stating that, “Underutilization of preventive services is largely the result of an implementation gap rather than an information gap; in other words, providers do not prioritize preventive care services although they know that preventive services can reduce the incidence and burden of chronic diseases.”