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In the current environment, health care IT solutions will go further if they help professionals and patients do 'more with less' instead of 'more with more'. Th
by sgarg26 14y ago
In the current environment, health care IT solutions will go further if they help professionals and patients do 'more with less' instead of 'more with more'. The dynamics in the article are real, but there are tons of way around the challenges posed. The article to me says that the market has yet to be cracked, but the opportunity is still pretty huge.
- rficcaglia 14y agoUnfortunately the entrenched attitude is do 'less with more'. There are ways through the challenges posed - but not 'around'. YMMV. Until patients pay directly for their care and have transparent pricing, I don't anticipate real innovation. (of course examples exist of innovation within the current system: Athena Health, One Medical, PracticeFusion, ZocDoc - but all of these took quite a lot of time and effort and funding to punch through the barriers noted in the article...so yes, it is possible, you are correct). That said the current (US) system rewards existing thinking and does not encourage efficiency and outcomes and patient satisfaction.