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by mabynogy 3384 days ago
> Finally, you have to realize that you are dealing with a very powerful and conservative management culture.

Has anybody tried to address the patient needs before?

Patients should be easier to convince. It could be a good strategy to influence the doctors and mangement to change their habits.

I'm thinking of a tool to allow the patient to enter data that they could give to their doctor.
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nradov 3384 days ago
It wouldn't help. Very few patients actually care about this stuff. When patients go in to see their doctors they aren't going to waste time discussing software.
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gmarx 3384 days ago
lots of people are working on the patient-centric record. No one has cracked the cultural problem and the integration problems. You would be requiring docs to re-enter most of the information in their own system.

Remember, the things we call EMR aren't primarily medical records, they are systems for sending the right codes to the billing systems

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mabynogy 3384 days ago
> You would be requiring docs to re-enter most of the information in their own system.

Why not gave-up at the beginning with data exchange. Make something that could help both the patients and the physicians.

For example, a mobile app could gather some data concerning the patient habits (with the gps, accelerometer...).

The idea is to create a need and make it mandatory (because very useful).

> Remember, the things we call EMR aren't primarily medical records, they are systems for sending the right codes to the billing systems

Yes. I'm looking for a way to change that. For example, with something more health-centric than money-centric.

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