[SoftTalker]

It’s also strange to me that every time I go to the doctor I have to sit and fill out forms like I’m a new patient. All my insurance info, again. My entire medical history, again. Consent agreements, again. This experience hasn’t changed in decades, and I don’t understand why.

I’ve asked, why do you need all this again and the answer is usually “oh we have a new system” or “we need to know if anything changed” (but that’s not what the forms ask).

[fn-mote]

My observation has been that after filling out the form, the office skims it and enters nothing in the computer. I guess that's the "nothing changed" situation.

Patient time is worth 0 to the medical system.

[dboreham]

Quick guess: 1. lawyers and 2. principal/agent problem (the providers don't give a crap about your wasted time and the bad data they're collecting).