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When you work in a a patient facing role, you battle the EMR (or Radiology Information System in my case) and hate it’s ancient, bug ridden mess of inefficiency
by lostlogin 2y ago
When you work in a a patient facing role, you battle the EMR (or Radiology Information System in my case) and hate it’s ancient, bug ridden mess of inefficiency. Why is it just as crap as it was 20 years ago?
But if you ever see the billing side you realise that billing is where the bulk of the action happens and that the horror is even worse over there.
- ethbr1 2y agoLack of data interface standards is the biggest thing holding healthcare technical efficiency back, from what I've seen. And I understand why it's hard! But it should be possible to make progress around the edges, on more defined use cases and subsets... like pricing. That said, the major system vendors have zero incentive to originate interoperability, so it'll have to come from HHS if anywhere.
- nradov 2y agoThere are existing interoperability standards covering just about every healthcare use case (including price transparency) from organizations like HL7, DirectTrust, ASC X12, NCPDP, CMS, etc. The trouble is that many payer and provider organizations have chosen not to fully implement those standards. Instead they just do the bare minimum to achieve regulatory compliance because it's a cost center, not a revenue driver. The major EHR vendors are all active participants in open industry standards development. You can literally read the meeting minutes from standards development organizations to see that. But just because they ship a new interoperability feature doesn't mean their customers actually turn it on.