Healthcare is in crisis in many countries, not least of which is the United States. We hear on the news how health care providers are incapable of providing medical care to an increasingly number of chronically ill and the aging population. There are a number of systemic failures; however, none is more fundamental and difficult to correct than the basic lack of human resources. There are simply not enough physicians to service the population's needs. The problem is intensified in rural areas, where specialized physicians may not be found within several hundred miles. ...

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The National Center for Policy Analysis (1998) stated that "Experts contend that the nation's 6,000 hospitals, 50,000 nursing homes and 700,000 doctors all need to locate and repair billions of lines of faulty computer code- (p. 1). ... Many surveys have been performed to assess the readiness of the industry both on an operational and technical front. ...

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