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Its true that running independently is getting more difficult, but that's not "on the market" but on the insidious regulations around insurance, malpractice law
by conanbatt 7y ago
Its true that running independently is getting more difficult, but that's not "on the market" but on the insidious regulations around insurance, malpractice law, etc.
A doctor can't open up an office and tend to patients with pen and paper anymore, and they have to pay thousands of dollars a month to systems that are truly terrible to be compliant.
- skwb 7y ago*If they want to accept Medicare dollars (and usually private insurance just follows Medicare). I remembered some South Western (I want to say Arizona) specialty clinic that basically didn't accept insurance and had pen and paper charts still.
- nradov 7y agoMedicine is also a team sport now. Caring for patients with complex conditions requires coordination with multiple other practitioners. Exchanging paper records with them just isn't practical or safe. Plus if the doctor has to write a prescription, doing it on paper is so error prone as to border on malpractice.
- conanbatt 7y agoI will be willing to say the opposite as well. Exchanging records is terrible. If you get records from say, Epic, you might get 300 pages. Which doctor is going to read 300 pages of documentation for one if his 16 30-minute appointments a day?