International Healthcare

Welcome to my blog! In this series of posts I will be exploring the various facets of healthcare systems around the world. Healthcare has always been a complex system and learning from others could be one of the ways the United States can improve upon a system that has some major flaws. I will also be exploring the interesting concept of globalizing healthcare. The idea of adding international competition has been highly debated with solid points on both the pros and cons side.  I have chosen to focus on countries apart of  The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). These countries share a lot of similarities to the United States and will serve as a good baseline to compare and contrast our system to theirs. Initial research has shown much discrepancy especially in the areas of cost and quality as seen in this graph.  I will also be putting an emphasis on the use of information technology in these countries to see if there are areas we are not fully pursuing