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My doctors usually spend less than 5 minutes talking to me and 10 minutes hunting and pecking at the computer. Some offices will have other staff do much of the
by marshray 11y ago
My doctors usually spend less than 5 minutes talking to me and 10 minutes hunting and pecking at the computer. Some offices will have other staff do much of the data entry, but it doesn't seem to result in the doctor any spending more time with me.
- merqurio 11y agoPrecisely we just created an start-up with a product that helps doctors making the EHR much faster and intuitively so they can focus on the patients.
- marshray 11y agoI believe you, but when I worked in a medical office in 1993 vendors were saying that exact same thing.
- merqurio 11y agoI know, I hope my Background as MD and CS plus the idea we had will make it different. We are working on something similar to an IDE :)
- marshray 11y agoBreak a leg :-) And whatever you do, just don't let anyone deploy it on some overloaded Citrix server.
- knughit 11y agoCongratulations in advance for when EPIC buys your company and then ruins your product.
- gameshot911 11y agoEpic doesn't acquire.
- gmarx 11y agoYou sound like me and this sounds like software I created more than a decade ago. Good luck. It is an incredibly difficult sale (yes, I am a little bitter :))
- lucidrains 11y agoCool, me too :) would be interested to hear more on what you are working on if you are in the city. (SF)
- gmarx 11y agoMe too and I am near SF. Would also be interested in talking
- Mz 11y agoYou could try looking for Direct Primary Care, another growing movement among doctors in reaction to how messed up the system is. I wrote a bit about it recently: Http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-to-fix-americas-financial.html
- cglace 11y agoThe hospital system my dad works for just got all the doctors scribes to take the data entry burden off of them.