Health IT Outcomes July 18, 2019
Dr. Samant Virk, MD, MediSprout

When faced with article after article about the rising costs of healthcare, I often ask myself –can healthcare be cheaper than the cost of a cup of coffee? And the answer that I come back to every time is, Yes! With the proper technology, a doctor visit can cost less than your morning latte.

Everyone knows that healthcare is enormously expensive in the United States, but most people don’t know the half of it.

U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)[1] reported that Americans spent $3.65 trillion on healthcare in 2018 –an amount larger than the GDPs of countries like Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Canada — and the highest amount by far in the developed world. Health spending jumped...

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