Get your doctor to stop wasting time
Doctors spend a lot of time on paperwork, and thats not good.
There are over 700,000 doctors alone in the US and they, on average, get paid $185,000 according to Google. But according to a 2016 paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine, over 50% of a doctors time is spent on paperwork and logistics. Thats equal to a loss of $65 billion in a doctors productivity every year. I mean, isn’t a doctor’s duty to diagnose, treat and help patients get better?
I mean, that might actually explain the cost of a hospital visit and why people pay $9000 annually to maintain their health. Perhaps fixing this problem would cut a third of that cost, and fix the reason why American’s don’t see doctors as much.
So what as a whole should we do to remedy this problem?
Startups seem to have the answer, and they’re doing it in two different ways.
They have decided to either simplify the managerial affairs doctors have to perform, or to provide tools to help doctors perform their onsite duties much quicker. Here we talk about how startups help to reduce all the red tape in the industry.
Reducing Managerial Affairs
Doctors and hospitals have a lot more to manage than you’d think. The legal paper work behind each patient, to dealing with insurance, and also medical history, thats a lot of things to keep track of. So how do startups help doctors to circumnavigate this issue?
Keeping track of your patient
Startups like Voalte and TigerConnect want to do this by helping you manage your patients in an easy to use user interface by handling all of the backend for you.
From connecting individuals to doctors, tigerConnect offers functions like chatting seamlessly inter-wined in their app.
Doctors can easily access a patients lab records, critical lab results, as well as be notified by them in a calendar like system.
Most notably though is that behind the innocent UI of the app, the process of treating a patient decreases from the previous 14 steps into a simple 6 step procedure. This saves doctors, on average, 34 minutes of time according to Voalte.
All in one service
Another option is to take CareCloud’s approach and to offer an all in one service.
From streamlining the payment method, to dealing with all the annoying backend logistics, and even insurance claims, CareCloud solves most if not all of the annoying day to day tasks a doctor has to perform.
Want a make it easy for patients to register and pay? CareCloud can do that.
Want to write notes about patients in an easy to access location and on the cloud? CareCloud can do that.
Want to schedule payment and tasks you have to do as a Doctor? CareCloud can do that.
Overall it seems that any problem a doctor might have with the extrenalities of patient care, CareCloud can do.
The writer’s take:
I think a lot of the solutions proposed are promising. But I think one of the difficultly in this lies in convincing doctors to use their product over the myriad of other solutions that exist.
But, if not already, I think this can be remedied by partnering with medical schools to teach students on how to use their services before they turn into a doctor. This way the students would default to using what is already familiar to them.
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