For decades, healthcare and policy leaders have developed plans to reduce federal healthcare spending, which reached $4.3 trillion in 2021. Given recent economic shifts globally and domestically, finding solutions to mitigate healthcare costs has become even more important. Few sustainable solutions exist, and additional, more complex healthcare issues continue to emerge.
Last week’s fifth annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas was the biggest and boldest yet. The event was overflowing with interesting information and innovative ideas that push to define healthcare for the next decade. Many of the topics discussed tie directly to the work we do at Decode Health. Here are our team’s takeaways.
In the U.S., the cost of chronic diseases is more than $3.7T1 annually. Massive amounts of healthcare data are generated through wearable data, healthcare claims, electronic health records, and even complex genomic datasets. By 2025, the average individual will accumulate more than 4,900 daily digital device interactions2. Data alone, however, isn't the answer. The key is to find patterns within the data to proactively intervene and reduce the inefficiency within the $808 billion3 healthcare industry.
Autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and rheumatoid arthritis, are complex diseases that affect over four million people in the United States and cost the healthcare system over $90 billion [read more...]
According to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), two Harvard economists estimate the cumulative financial costs of the COVID-19 pandemic at more than $16 trillion. To put this number into perspective, that’s approximately 90% of annual GDP of the United States or $200,000 for a family of four. This is a combination of lost income due to the COVID-induced recession and the economic effect of a shorter, less healthy life.
Just as national health officials warned ahead of the holiday season, the winter months of 2020-21 have proven to be the most challenging period of the COVID-19 pandemic so far. In Tennessee alone, there have [read more...]
Although COVID-19 hospitalizations and death rates have dominated the media, another challenge has quietly emerged during the pandemic. Some COVID patients are reporting a wide variety of debilitating symptoms, often lasting months after being diagnosed. [read more...]
Everyone knows at least one person with an autoimmune disease or disorder and just may not know it. Even if you think you don’t, you most likely do, considering autoimmune diseases affect approximately 50 million [read more...]
