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Healthcare isn't expensive because there are huge swaths of spending unexamined by human intelligence that might become tractable with an automated process. On
by scarmig 4y ago
Healthcare isn't expensive because there are huge swaths of spending unexamined by human intelligence that might become tractable with an automated process. On the contrary, it's one of the sectors that has the most eyes and brains pointed at costs and extracting as most money as possible.
On the topic of EMR systems in particular, they suck because the people using them hate them and because the people purchasing them, building them, and mandating them aren't the people using them. If it were just a matter of having enough money to throw at the problem, Epic would have done so already.
- xcskier56 4y agoBilling is the original sin of healthcare. EMRs (excluding the VA’s old MER VistA) were not developed to improve clinical workflows or outcomes, they were originally conceived to improve and streamline billing. This orientation has massively contributed to the overhead that EMRs like Epic and Cerner introduce. On the startup and health improve lament side, billing is the rock that so many great ideas break on. It doesn’t matter if the model or business improves care or reduces cost unless it will make a provider more money.
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- mountainriver 4y agoSo your telling me EMR is the Jira of healthcare