The Leading Physicians of The World

After years of big promises, telemedicine is finally living up to its potential. Driven by faster internet connections, ubiquitous smartphones and changing insurance standards, more health providers are turning to electronic communications to do their jobs—and it’s upending the delivery of health care. Doctors are linking up with patients by phone, email and webcam. They’re also consulting with each other electronically—sometimes to make split-second decisions on heart attacks and strokes. Patients, meanwhile, are using new devices to relay their blood pressure, heart rate and other vital signs to their doctors so they can manage chronic conditions at home. Telemedicine also allows for better care in places where medical expertise is hard to come by. Five to 10 times a day, Doctors Without Borders relays questions about tough cases from its physicians in Niger, South Sudan and elsewhere to its network of 280 experts around the world, and back again via the internet. In ...

The aim of this article is to present the relevant statistics on the United States' healthcare regarding financing and expenditure. These statistics are useful in the evaluation of a country's healthcare with regards to global access to quality healthcare.The statistics analyze the financial resources and the allocation process of such resources between the various beneficiaries and stakeholders in the broad health sector, for instance, healthcare providers such as hospitals and health care that is either preventive or curative. National healthcare spending statistics In the US, approximately 50% of medical costs are for hospital expenses, the breakdown being, hospital inpatient-30% and outpatient-19%. Prescription medication gets 17% while doctors get 30%. In the above distribution, the amount allocated for drugs is small as compared to the overall expenditure, and as a result, there have been growing concerns over the rising cost of new medication, and this can gi...