The delivery of medical care has become an administrative nightmare:
- Regulations everywhere and complex payment structures.
- Industry players with their hands in the cookie jar, charging exorbitant prices for anything used in hospitals.
- Administrators were hired to handle non-clinical admin work.
- Soon after, MBAs began treating medicine as a profitable business while physicians struggled in a sea of paperwork.
Near-term solutions:
- Create hospitals where non-direct patient care employees are reduced and assisted by AI software and robotics. Allow physicians to run and own hospitals again. The conflict of interest concern that has prevented this is no match for the conflicts brought by MBAs focused on profit.
- Get clinical staff (nurses, physicians, RTs, etc.) off keyboards and reduce their paperwork using new technologies like ambient AI, assistive notes, clinical synopses, and decision-making algorithms to enhance quality.
- Mandate EHR interoperability and offer a public EHR option. The huge loss from not yet doing this creates delays and redundant treatments. It has also fostered massive monopolies that gouge prices with minimal competition. (Epic is a cash cow and doesn't effectively reduce costs to offset.)
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@mcuban Two reasons
1. Providers don’t have any awareness on how close the patients are to their deductible
2. Insurance companies pay a pre-negotiated rate, not what the provider charges. The difference gets charged to the patient