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In the United States we constantly lament the cost of healthcare and often act envious of those countries with centralized systems. Recent news stories from centralized health systems around the world are starting to paint a different picture of utopia.

The U.K.’s Healthcare Crisis Sounds an Alarm for Aging Countries — The Wall Street Journal The NHS is struggling under the effects of budget cuts, Covid delays and an aging population

Despite all the technology available to manage supply chain why is “waste” worse than ever?
Answer: Morale. You have to care to save money. You have to care to be efficient. You have to care to manage your employers money the way you would manage your own money. Of course turnover leads to wasteful spending and the staffing crisis doesn’t help, but this is the core issue.

U.S. hospitals wasting about $25.4B on supply chain every year The amount of money U.S. | In its study of 2,300 hospitals, consulting firm Navigant also found that hospitals could save up to 18%, or $11 million a year per hospital—the equivalent of 160 registered nurses, 42 primary care doctors or the cost of building two outpatient surgery centers.

Fortune Magazine did a very interesting piece on EHR. The communication gap between those that program healthcare technology versus those that actually use it in the field needs to be narrowed and quickly.

Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong — FORTUNE The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy mess: Inside a digital revolution gone wrong. A joint investigation by Fortune and Kaiser Health News.