To be clear, I am acutely aware of just how hard it is to get this sort of thing working (MS in health Econ, phd in biomedical and clinical informatics). Just keeping track of all the formularies seems like a pain just to to begin with!
To be clear, I am acutely aware of just how hard it is to get this sort of thing working (MS in health Econ, phd in biomedical and clinical informatics). Just keeping track of all the formularies seems like a pain just to to begin with!
Where I live, there are two competing networks of doctors now that have basically absorbed thousands of doctors in the last 4 years with their signs literally plastered everywhere now.
Yay because arguably it's the only way doctor offices are going to keep up with ever changing tech. Nay because Americans are going to get fucked in the ass even more by uncontrollable healthcare when the doctors networks become cartels.
In either case, the major role of healthcare consolidation has been to keep up with insurance consolidation, which is to keep up with hospital consolidation, and so on [4].
[1]. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/h...
[2]. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190304.99820...
[3]. https://cio.ucop.edu/making-epic-history-ucsd-and-uci-health...
[4]. https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.22.6....
Keeping up with the tech is not the problem, it's keeping up with the ever changing regulations, many of which do relate to EHR. You basically need dedicated staff to handle the bureaucratic processes, which is only affordable for large organizations.
The caveaat that it would only show Blink's price, which was actually not the insurance price (they are not insurance but instead a PBM pass thru, cheaper-than-usual cash price). The data point was not comprehensive, of course... But my point still stands