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Medical Economics: Current Healthcare System Cannot Survive Aging Population

The U.S. has the second largest oldest population in the world. By 2050, 21.4 percent of our population will be 65 years or older.

As such, a new approach to care delivery is required. Today, we’re saddled with expensive, inefficient healthcare IT that has severed the personal connection between doctors and patients as well as between nurses and patients. If we don’t change how care is delivered in this country, the healthcare system will collapse into a sea of red ink.

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