3 Responses Needed Unit 1 DB Substantive Posts These MUST be substantive to the Posts Herein. Post # 1 Our country is one of the richest country on this planet but yet rank 37 by the World Health Organization. The health care system in the US works best if you are rich or have a decent job to pay for your own insurance. If we compare ourselves to our Canadian neighbor, they are well off than we are. Even to the point that some of our citizens that live close to the border go to Canada for treatments. One of the main problem in our health care system is the insurance companies. It appears to me that we value money or profit rather than life. The 44th president of our country put into law for our citizens to be seen or take insurance without been penalize for prior preexisting conditions. It is no secret that big companies do not like that and they continue to fight to amend Obama care and our country will never have the health care system that France, Canada, New Zealand, and Belgium citizens have. Post # 2 The healthcare industry has undergone drastic changes in the last decade, which currently seems to be continuing that trend exponentially. With the emergence of the internet, and the technological advances with computers, people everywhere are becoming very comfortable with computer assisted devices integrating every aspect of our daily lives. This very idea has been embraced by the healthcare industry, as we can now see robots delivering medications to inpatient units, robotic surgery becoming standard in many specialties, and most importantly the emergence of electronic healthcare records (EHR)s. This technology has led to a transition from a monetary-driven healthcare system to a quality-driven healthcare system (Nelson, 2016). EHRs have revolutionized the healthcare system and patient care. Baker (2016) noted that EHR systems have led to advancements, such as patient portals, which provides a secure way for patient and providers to communicate wirelessly and without an appointment, as well as the ability for healthcare systems to safely and securely transfer patient and files between providers and other facilities with ease. Tavares (2016) noted that due to rising costs and the current air of fiscal responsibility invading healthcare, many organizations see EHRs as a means for allowing patients to take a more active role in their healthcare, thereby allowing the system to be more efficient and cost-saving. With the passage of the HITECH Act of 2009, and the implementation of the “meaningful use” incentives, many organizations are looking to efficiency metrics to fulfill some of these requirements (Neumeier, Butler, and Fuqua, 2016). Attaallah, Elzamzamy, Phelps, Ranganthan and Vallejo (2016) noted that one way of using an EHR for fiscal responsibility to fulfill the “meaningful use” incentive program by monitoring operating room metrics in order to assess efficiency, increase revenue through analyzin.