It would be great if consolidation would bring about better shared resources or efficiency. But healthcare (I'm looking at all your execs) are incapable of doing that. Instead they just create behemoths of more inefficiency and fiefdoms.
Robert Lafsky,M. D. - 8 months ago
It would be a no, except for Epic. There’s no way a larger number of small organizations could support something on that scale with that much content.
Matt K - 8 months ago
Consolidation of health systems, combined with PBM and health insurance monopolies is good for a couple of things -- corporate profits, overpaid executive salaries, and never-ending capital funding that does the opposite of what health systems should be doing -- paying front-line workers, allowing physician autonomy and ownership and putting the patient first.
Jimmy Weeks - 8 months ago
???????? x 2 Bill Spooner.
JT - 8 months ago
I worked for a small, independent community hospital that survived way longer than many of its peers but now is jointly owned by two of the larger hospitals in our area. It is still a good hospital but it is easy to see the erosion of so many of the reasons we were considered special, regularly viewed as the best place to work (even when not ever the highest pay) and receive care. The older I get, the more likely I will be a patient here someday, and this worries me a lot. Sigh. :(
It would be great if consolidation would bring about better shared resources or efficiency. But healthcare (I'm looking at all your execs) are incapable of doing that. Instead they just create behemoths of more inefficiency and fiefdoms.
It would be a no, except for Epic. There’s no way a larger number of small organizations could support something on that scale with that much content.
Consolidation of health systems, combined with PBM and health insurance monopolies is good for a couple of things -- corporate profits, overpaid executive salaries, and never-ending capital funding that does the opposite of what health systems should be doing -- paying front-line workers, allowing physician autonomy and ownership and putting the patient first.
???????? x 2 Bill Spooner.
I worked for a small, independent community hospital that survived way longer than many of its peers but now is jointly owned by two of the larger hospitals in our area. It is still a good hospital but it is easy to see the erosion of so many of the reasons we were considered special, regularly viewed as the best place to work (even when not ever the highest pay) and receive care. The older I get, the more likely I will be a patient here someday, and this worries me a lot. Sigh. :(
Is there a “Hell No”?