Are healthcare systems too focused on competition and not on the patients?

In a recent blog post, SCI Solutions’ SVP of Product Management Bill Reid highlights several areas where healthcare seems to be more focused on beating the competition than actually helping the patient.

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Mr. Reid provides an example with his recent trips to see different doctors in competing health systems. Even though they both tout the same EMR program, information will not be shared between the competing health systems, requiring Mr. Reid to fill out the same forms twice.

When interoperability and the ease of use is disrupted in healthcare, patients are likely to become frustrated and go somewhere else.

To read the blog in full, click here.

 

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