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Any doctor will tell you the advantages of having lots of patient data on computers: it helps us avoid redundant tests, gather huge amounts of data for research, screen automatically for drug interactions, all with no problems with our famously illegible handwriting. I would be happy if every patient could...
Not surprisingly, nationwide adoption of Electronic Medical Records is being pushed hardest by those who would profit financially from it. The slightly embarrassing financial reality of EMR is that large, mechanized medical operations like hospitals, clinics and big multi-doctor practices stand to make quite a bit of money by...
Medical billing, for both hospitals and doctors, is accomplished via a system of codes, which is already so complicated that there are special schools for it, granting degrees not just in coding but in special branches of coding. Coding boils down to assigning specific numbers to every problem (diagnosis codes...
EMR, financially, is the mouth and esophagus of a hungrier billing animal. And not just in hospital practice. Private medical practices, whose incomes have been driven down over the years by decreasing insurance reimbursements, are hiring computerized record/billing companies in droves. Their promise? To create electronic medical records that comply...
Though this tends to be the message, all too often the mechanism is much simpler. Computerized medicine means both more information - and less medicine. Less therapy, less surgery and less testing too. That's how it saves money. A variety of promising terms describe it - terms like targeted treatment, algorithmic...