Healthcare Referral System Broken
A large percentage of processes in healthcare involve documents and forms that must be scanned and stored outside their existing EMR system such as records from referring physicians, patient consent forms, patient instructions, etc. With so much paper still floating around, opportunities for HIPAA violations increases 86% of mistakes made in the healthcare industry stem from administrative activities. Here are some facts that show how healthcare referral system is broken. 1. Excessive regulation Probably half the nurses at most hospitals could handle a lot of the GP work that gets done, but they can’t, because the government doesn’t allow them to. When it takes a couple hundred thousand in education costs to become a doctor, doctors are going to demand money! 2. Shortage of Doctors Studies show that there will be a sho...