Random charts - health equity

Source: What Can the Health Care Sector Do to Advance Health Equity? (52-pg PDF)

"A study says eliminating racial/ ethnic health disparities would reduce health care costs by $230 billion and indirect costs of excess disease and mortality by more than $1 trillion over four years."

Random charts - preparedness

Source: Global Health Security Index (324-pg PDF)

"Biological threats—natural, intentional, or accidental—in any country can pose risks to global health, international security, and the worldwide economy. Because infectious diseases know no borders, all countries must prioritize and exercise the capabilities required to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to public health emergencies. Every country also must be transparent about its capabilities to assure neighbors it can stop an outbreak from becoming an international catastrophe. In turn, global leaders and international organizations bear a collective responsibility for developing and maintaining robust global capability to counter infectious disease threats. This capability includes ensuring that financing is available to fill gaps in epidemic and pandemic preparedness. These steps will save lives and achieve a safer and more secure world. 

 The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 countries that make up the States Parties to the International Health Regulations (IHR [2005])"

Note: The U.S. ranked 1st i.e. most prepared... Perhaps this might need to be reconsidered!

Random charts - traffic

Source:  The Congestion Con: How more lanes and more money equals more traffic (37-pg PDF)

"In an expensive effort to curb congestion in urban regions, we have overwhelmingly prioritized one strategy: we have spent decades and hundreds of billions of dollars widening and building new highways. We added 30,511 new freeway lane-miles in the largest 100 urbanized areas between 1993 and 2017, an increase of 42 percent. That rate of expansion significantly outstripped the 32 percent growth in population in those regions over the same time period. Yet this strategy has utterly failed to “solve” congestion."

Random charts - robots

Source: How robots change the world: What automation really means for jobs and productivity

Random charts - children

Source: A future for the world's children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission (54-page PDF)

Random charts - healthcare

Source: Findings from the Deloitte 2019 Health Care CEO Perspectives: StudyUnique insights from industry leaders

Random chart - carbon footprint

Source: The Global Disparity in Carbon Footprints

Random charts - health care transformation

Source: Six imperatives for chief strategy officers in health care (Deloitte)

Random charts - Medicare & PBMs

Source: MEDICARE PART D: Use of Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Efforts to Manage Drug Expenditures and Utilization (78-pg GAO PDF)

 

"What GAO Found: Medicare Part D plan sponsors used pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) to provide 74 percent of drug benefit management services and performed the remaining 26 percent of services themselves in 2016—the most recent year of data at the time of our analysis. Plan sponsors are private entities that operate drug plans; PBMs are organizations that help manage drug benefits. Rebates and other price concessions—discounts generally paid by manufacturers to Part D plan sponsors and PBMs after the sale of a drug at the pharmacy—grew faster than Part D expenditures from 2014 through 2016. Specifically, gross expenditures (the amount paid to pharmacies by plan sponsors, or by the PBM on the sponsor’s behalf, and by the beneficiary) increased 20 percent, to $145.1 billion. During this period, rebates and other price concessions increased 66 percent, to $29 billion—20 percent of 2016 gross expenditures. Consequently, net expenditures (gross expenditures less rebates and other price concessions) increased only 13 percent, to $116.1 billion..."

Random charts - mass shootings

Source: U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center Report: Mass Attacks in Public Spaces 2018 (15-pg PDF)

Random chart - death causes

 

  

Source:  The Major Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States

"In 2016, children and adolescents (1 to 19 years of age) represented a quarter of the total estimated U.S. population1; reflecting relatively good health, they accounted for less than 2% of all U.S. deaths.2 By 2016, death among children and adolescents had become a rare event. Declines in deaths from infectious disease or cancer, which had resulted from early diagnosis, vaccinations, antibiotics, and medical and surgical treatment, had given way to increases in deaths from injury-related causes, including motor vehicle crashes, firearm injuries, and the emerging problem of opioid overdoses. Although injury deaths have traditionally been viewed as “accidents,” injury-prevention science that evolved during the latter half of the 20th century increasingly shows that such deaths are preventable with evidence-based approaches. 

 In this report, we summarize the leading causes of death in children and adolescents (1 to 19 years of age) in the United States. Unless otherwise indicated, data on deaths were obtained from the Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), known as CDC WONDER,2 in which data are derived from U.S. death certificates compiled from 57 vital-statistics jurisdictions.2 Data are presented for 2016, the most recent year with national data available.2 Where appropriate, rates are expressed per 100,000 children and adolescents and include the 95% confidence interval..."

Random chart - safety events

Source: Exploring Vulnerability to Patient Safety Events along the Age Continuum

"To identify age-related patterns of events that could have or did result in unanticipated patient harm, the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority developed a data snapshot from more than 260,000 event reports submitted by Pennsylvania hospitals through the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System during 2017. For almost all age cohorts, the most common event type was Error related to Procedure/Treatment/Test while among Serious Event reports (i.e., event resulting in harm), the most common event type was Complication of Procedure/Treatment/Test.

 

Differences in event report patterns for children, adolescents, and young adults compared with events involving adults and elderly patients were noted. For adults 75 years or older, the number of event reports decreased, while the rate of involvement in a patient safety event report relative to estimated population increased as patient age increased. For adults 25 years or older, the number of reports involving two event types—Fall and Skin Integrity—increased with advancing age. Although the increased rate of total event reports at the extremes of age relative to estimated population was unsurprising, the decreased rate of Serious Events in the very elderly, and the increased rate of total and Serious Events in the age cohort of 5 to 14 years relative to number of admissions were unanticipated.

 

Attention to the event types and patterns of vulnerability that predominate in specific age cohorts may help facilities prioritize interventions."

Random charts - outpatient spend

Source: Top Outpatient Diagnoses by ICD-10 Code

"The industry-wide shift from inpatient to outpatient care is well documented by healthcare providers (HCPs) and industry experts. Advancements in hospital technology and treatments are enabling a greater number of patients to seek effective care without being admitted. This trend is helping to lower overall care costs, improve patient outcomes, and reduce unnecessary admissions. According to our hospital financial data, outpatient treatment accounted for nearly 57 percent of hospital net patient revenue in 2017..."

Random charts - hospitals

 

 

 

 

Source: Improving Hospital Competition: A Key to Affordable Health Care: Reversing a decades-long trend towards hospital consolidation will reduce health costs for patients.

Random charts - child deaths

Source: The Major Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States

Random charts - healthcare

Source: Top health industry issues of 2019: The New Health Economy comes of age (PwC 53-pg PDF)