The most urgent problem facing the U.S. healthcare system today is cost. Traditional factions of political party affiliation, socio-economic status, and patient-payer-provider categorization all agree that the astronomical costs of the current system are not sustainable—and only increasing.
Paradoxically, a staggering amount of these expenses are either preventable or reducible. Most are simply due to an inefficient allocation of resources, both financial and medical. This fact is typified by the patient engagement problem, which is estimated to consume half a trillion dollars including $300 billion for medication adherence alone.
