Currently, doctors must invest time and money to implement EHR systems, but it’s the insurers and payers who ultimately benefit, thanks to a reduction in unnecessary tests and medications.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Now, how do we change this? Will the current EHR stimulus fix it?
John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.
John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.
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I’d say this is mostly an advantage for the patient. I knew someone who had to undergo duplicate, extremely painful tests. Then had to pay for all of them (e.g. what the insurance didn’t cover).
Reductions in “unnecessary tests” are a good thing, hopefully for all who are involved..
There’s no doubt that avoiding duplicate tests is beneficial. Just not for the doctors (who are the ones usually making the EMR implementation decision).
Most of the docs I have met on the advisory committee are not fully vested in the trenches, but do e-medicine as corporate consultants. The proposal that we as physicians will take a week off of patient care to go learn an EMR system, well speaks for itself. They don’t even give CME’s. There needs to be a panel of recent EMR adoptee physicians to temper the unbridled enthusiasm of those consultants who are no longer full time physicians. Real world implimentation is expensive, inefficinet and in herently dangerous in the interim.
Good point D Thrasher. Many of the doctors especially in larger group implementations haven’t been “in the trenches” for a while and so they might have lost some perspective on what it’s like.