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Israel had a very good starting point - the 4 mandatory healthcare providers (Clalit, Maccabi, Leumit, Meukhedet), who due to a voucher system could only compet
by underdeserver 6y ago
Israel had a very good starting point - the 4 mandatory healthcare providers (Clalit, Maccabi, Leumit, Meukhedet), who due to a voucher system could only compete on service. They had every interest to digitize and improve efficiency over the past decade or so.
That's why they did digitize - every resident has a digital medical file, and healthcare providers can easily track and report back to Pfizer and the ministry of health on side effects and efficacy (i.e. it's easy to look up who got the vaccine and when, when they get admitted to a hospital with COVID).
- tguvot 6y agohealthcare providers in Israel have centralized systems/databases for at least 20 if not 30 years the only "digitization" over past decade, it's shiny websites.
- chaosite 6y agoYou're right, the digitization effort was around 2000 or so. But you're presenting that as somehow being bad, while it's actually better than what a lot of other countries have.
- tguvot 6y agoI don't present it as something bad. I adjust a timeline by a decade or so :) And as somebody who currently resides in USA, I am well aware that it's better compared to local state of affairs