“They grovel before the altar of the ‘electronic health record,’ or EHR, a corporate creation that widgetizes and dehumanizes doctor and patient. In 2016, MDs spent almost 40% of their patient care time (now surely higher) pecking on computers. No wonder they retire or leap from ledges. With the advent of EHRs, weekly meetings of the clinical staff where I once worked no longer included discussions of actual patients. Instead we war-gamed how to enter EHR data so as to satisfy insurers, the government, and our corporate overseers.”
It’s difficult for me to feel anything positive about the medical industry after the last 3 years.
I’m sorry DB, but you are not eligible for medical treatment until you have entered your preferred pronouns in our health database. Don’t forget to specify which of 72 genders you are.
Sarc?
I’m thinking I have a way to convince my doctor to treat me sans the bureaucratic BS…
In other news, Ford patented a self driving feature that will allow their self driving vehicles to self repossess to the nearest ford dealership if you are late on your monthly payment…
When the currency goes “digital” there will be great demand for the counterpart in money: your payments “self-refund” when the vehicle’s defects take it out of service
They should patent a button that a nurse will respond to. I’m thinking a shock collar.
My chart still shows I have a very NEGATIVE EHR score because I’ve never taken a COVID Booster. And I believe I’m about 5-Boosters behind the OFFICIAL recommended dosage … my Dokktor always mentions it. I always give her the blank stare and say nothing, lest she write me up as a mental case too. Mentally unstable for refusing to take more jabs.
Sounds similar to Salesforce. I was in engineered system sales for 30+ years and they dropped the Salesforce garbage on us. They wanted everything you did entered, where you were, who you talked to, chances of an order, blah blah blah. You would get harassed if your data was not up to date by ignorant managers who had no clue what you did. Did not know what you sold so didn’t have a clue how to evaluate what you entered anyway. Just stupid.
I seriously wouldn’t be doing my job if I did all that.
I certainly wouldn’t be getting any orders.
The corporate world is like working for the government, all DEI all the time.
It seems the tide is turning, apparently the thousands of layoffs going on are apparently predominantly from diversity departments. They are not a revenue stream, in fact the opposite.
Go woke go, broke is a fact, ask Disney.
According to the TV ads here, all medical problems can be fixed by throwing more tax money at the bureaucrats, administrators, and unions.
They are on to something with that, but money isn’t the solution. Maybe try stones.
And Big Pharma too. Don’t forget them.
Yep,
Had… a relative.. take a turn for the worse recently. The nurse was visibly shaken, teared up in fact, because of all the documentation she was about to have to go through.
Standards of care require a certain amount of time is spent daily with the patients. 5 minutes with the patient and 25 minutes of sorting through a labyrinth of menus and checking boxes. Meanwhile cries for help echo through the hallways with no recognition, from anyone, ever.
Then there’s the obsession with medical apps. Doctor shows you the screen, your chance of a heart attack is this unless you take pharmaceutical x then it drops to this. Thanks doc.
I bet “Died waiting for service” isn’t in the drop-down list.
Welcome to Technocracy.
https://www.technocracy.news/world-health-organization-a-public-health-technocracy/
ps Its “self-injecting” overlords.
I have sat in the exam room with my Doctor … while he was on his laptop trying to find the right CODE to use for my treatment. I swear I thought he was gonna slam the laptop on the floor and smash it to bits. He was so frustrated at not finding the exact right description for how he was treating me. Thanks Obamakkare. No, I wasn’t ON Obamakkare … but it set the RULES every Doctor of every medical Group had to follow. FU Obama
It all goes back to:
“If you do not measure it? You cannot manage it.”
You are the patient. The actual customer is the Insurance Company. The insurance company pays the bills and the insurance company approves treatments, approves pharmaceuticals, even approves the number of office visits and treatment sessions allowed. The insurance companies INCLUDE the State and Federal Government, and North of the US border, The Canadian Government is the insurance company writ large.
You, the patient? You are a Cost Center, one of millions managed by the insurance company. No wonder Canada is going all in on Medical Assistance in Dying and killing off the very expensive or very troublesome cost centers. Soon, in the name of DIE, the old and disabled will be told of their “Duty to Die.”
Universal MAID / Aktion T4 / Duty to Die is coming, and there are plenty of callous, unthinking robots that will be happy to cut your Downs Syndrome Childs life short for the glory of the State, and the Corporate Yearly Financial Goals.
I don’t know where to begin on this one. We just recently (November) implemented an EMR at the hospital at which I work. It effectively shut down the operating rooms for three weeks for all but emergency cases; caused three anesthesiologists at another site to throw in the towel and retire (we’re desperately short of anesthesiologists); and required eight full hours of in-classroom training plus a team of “super users” (staff anesthesiologists who had undergone additional training as support personnel) to begin to use the monstrosity for even the simplest of procedures. It does nothing whatsoever to improve delivery of care to the patient and when it crashed (we all predicted this would happen but needless to say were “guaranteed” that it wouldn’t) shut down the hospital for the day. Price tag, I’ve heard but can’t confirm: $6 Billion — that’s right, with a ‘B’. Meanwhile we were told to ration the epidural supplies we needed for ladies in labour or patients undergoing major abdominal surgeries (for post op pain control) as they were “back ordered” because they were in short supply. Speaking to someone from another site where it has been in use for several months, it’s still not working properly, but hey, the bureaucrats are happy so what the hell.
Government software, working as designed. This happens so consistently I’m pretty sure they do it on purpose. Seriously, where else can you skim off six billion bucks for a product that’s available off-the-shelf for a couple grand?