Overcoming Canada's Healthcare Challenges with Analytics
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Overcoming Canada's healthcare challenges with analytics.
ver the past 10 years, total annual healthcare spending in Canada has increased by more than $10 billion. It reached $172 billion in 2008, or $5,170 per person, outpacing inflation and population growth annually. Even when adjusted for inflation, this escalation in public expenditures cannot fail to attract the attention of taxpayers and consumers alike (Canadian Institute for Health Informatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Healthcare Quarterly
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1929-6347
DOI: 10.12927/hcq.2013.21631