United States Heathcare and how Knowledge Management can help

According to the article from "Business Week", money is being wasted in our health care system.  One issue highlighted is the mode of providing health care.  Hospitals work on a fee for service basis.  This leads to question the efficiency of providing quality over quantity of health care.  The country is experiencing high costs from this sector due to these inefficiencies, much of which is attributable to the redundancies in treatment and errors in malpractice.  Many people, organizations, and employers are taking matters into their own hands, by providing private care, forming events, giving incentives through wellness programs, but what can be used to innovate the system?  What can make it more efficient?  What can help is to provide quality health care instead of quantity.  Knowledge management systems can be used to improve the inefficiencies and eliminate the waste by providing better services that will lead to less visits.  Doctors should be able to provide such a quality of their service that no repeat visits are required.  To do that, they would need an on-demand knowledge based system.  When performing special services to patients, whether it is while performing surgery, recommending a prescription, offering information for options in moving forward with a procedure, or even consulting with other colleagues, a system of such would lead to better quality over quantity in providing health care to America.