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Family member worked on a board of a hospital, they raised charitable donations to buy more powerful software for the radiologist. The radiologist can now work
by jollybean 5y ago
Family member worked on a board of a hospital, they raised charitable donations to buy more powerful software for the radiologist.
The radiologist can now work 10x faster and still bills the hospital the same amount.
The Doctor's Guild is exceedingly powerful.
I really wish Wallmart or Amazon would get into providing healthcare services on the long tail - a lot of common stuff.
I sounds odd but both those companies are built around ripping margins out of the value chain and not keeping much for themselves.
Ok, maybe not either of them ... but something like that: The 'Walmart of Healthcare' that revolutionizes cost.
Also - there are enough Medical Practitioners who would work there. Enough of them do care about patient outcomes, cost etc..
- watwut 5y agoYou would expect the radiologist to be paid less because he/she does more work now? My salary did not went down when we migrated to more efficient tech.
- bvrstvr 5y agoYou're misconstruing the parent's point. The radiologist can be paid the same, even more. Their point is that while the cost (at least in time) of the radiologist's work was cut to 1/10, individual patients' bills remained constant.
- jollybean 5y agoThey get paid per review. They're now doing considerably more reviews thanks to the new software, paid for by donations. Cost to patients is the same, but processed faster. Doctor making bank.
- unsrsly 5y agoThere is zero chance the software allowed the radiologists to work 10x faster... what?
- jollybean 5y agoYeah that's my hyperbole. I should have said 'significantly faster'.