Comments on: Cats & Dogs: Can We Find Unity on Health Care IT Change?

By: HealthViewX

HealthViewX — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:57:20 +0000

Very well written. It highlights a lot of information. Today digital technology is transforming healthcare and is advancing exponentially. Solutions like patient referral management, chronic care management, care management solves many of the current industry challenges. FQHC’s, Enterprise hospitals, Imaging Centers, Specialty clinics, etc. benefit from patient referral solution by providing better patient care and increased operational efficiency.

By: PatientDirected

PatientDirected — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:21:12 +0000

In reply to Steve2. It can but it is a big challenge with a lot of inertia. Another solution to the problem is to go around the stakeholders, Apple has a patient directed approach using the iPhone as the storage and exchange node, however it has several issues fundamentally I prefer the PatientDirected.io solution.

By: Steve2

Steve2 — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:08:25 +0000

In reply to PatientDirected. Why can't the market solve for this now?

By: PatientDirected

PatientDirected — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:05:41 +0000

Good review Matthew, but it just highlights the fatal flaw in the plan: that there was no long term business driver put in place to drive behavior. The simple fact is that if it were legislated that all medicare payments were required to be predicated on the submission of a structured clinical document (use the CCD of the era it was reasonable – tip of the hat to Dr. Kibbe) to a national registry, the market would have solved for how this was accomplished in 1 year. Further, data interoperability would be solved inaddition to a number of significant medical discoveries based on real world analytics of healthcare data.
One can pontificate around the edges but the massive misstep IMO is clear.