Credit Card Know More About You Than Your M.D.?
Karl Brown, Dave A. Ross, and David Lubinski
OFF THE PRESS
One of the biggest challenges facing health systems around the world might come as a surprise, because it's not about doctors, drugs or money. From Boston to Beijing to Bamako, governments and health systems face an information challenge - specifically the lack of information.
In a world where business is transacted at the speed of light, where supplies can be ordered, inventories managed, and production quotas established on a daily basis, many countries, including highly developed economies, struggle to know basic facts about births, deaths, emerging threats to health or even the status of changing health systems.
