> Cam wrote: > This is actually the biggest challenge to healthcare. It's a > massively huge system that includes everyone in the country (one way > or another) - even more people than the tax system.
I also work in the heart of the beast and I can also say there's nothing inevitable about it. It's everything from not having electronic PHRs to prescriptions being hand written. Within hospitals, operations are not standard or "LEANed out", there's little in terms of best practices (take infections for example), and there's around 10 average core providers that service any given patient and about 30 non-core. Meaning there's ~40 people updating a chart and staying in communication on a patients status in any given DAY! In short, the bureaucracy is ridiculously unnecessary even in the current system, but a consumer-directed system would drive out those inefficiencies and remove that bureaucracy just like it did in the airline industry when it de-regulated - another industry I'm more familiar with than I'd like. And you can't tell me the airlines suffer from a lack of federal regulations! And since de-regulation look at what's happened to prices and choice! So the airline industry is a perfect example of how a highly regulated industry can safely and easily drive down costs while increasing quality and choice. Why would we want to go backwards when we've got a perfect case study in the other direction? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:262996 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
