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Epic is far, far away from what us MDs imagine when someone mentions the benefits of EHRs. For starters, if one could make an EHR that just only attempts to al
by rscho 7y ago
Epic is far, far away from what us MDs imagine when someone mentions the benefits of EHRs.
For starters, if one could make an EHR that just only attempts to also help practitioners in the trenches instead of just the billing dept. that would be stellar!
So 'the value EPIC brings' is huge... for anyone but care providers, thank you very much.
- Scoundreller 7y agoSounds like you have a billing department problem. I think one big issue is that the US subsidized EHRs for a while. So non-US non-billing-focussed EHRs never really developed. Now those US EHRs are getting dumped on the rest of world, with all of that carefully developed billing tech disabled out-of-the-box.
- rscho 7y agoSounds like I have a problem with anything making my job more painful. The actual problem has nothing to do with nation-focused issues. With healthcare liberalization came competition, and therefore search for the cheapest solution. Problem is, in healthcare we have slaves (called residents) and what's cheaper than an educated slave? So actually, even european EHRs follow the 'for-billing' model because it's far easier to just dump the work on the residents. EHRs are the whip with which we 'encourage' human healthcare providers.
- conanbatt 7y agoBilling department pays everyone's salary. The billing system in the US is so complex that it eats up a huge part of administering care.