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Medical software is terrible, because healthcare is very expensive, and this is the only effective cost control. Since the payers (insurance companies and the government) want to avoid seen making medical decisions, their only way to bring the cost down is to slow down the providers. Therefore, they do not allow automation in the EMR/Health software. This is not a joke: for appropriate billing, the physician has to go through an elaborate dance of clicks, and write and rewrite fields with the same content, personally. In other words, if it was automated, or if the office staff filled those out, then the billing would be much lower. It's not true software vendors would not be able to automate a lot of this, but they just can't, because the physicians are required to work in a manual way for proper reimbursement. It's a strange world, where a doctor who is a faster typist makes more money... It's very sad, but unfortunately it's working, at the cost of driving physicians to the edge of insanity. |