Posted on 10/23/2014 4:15:45 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
An increasing burden of paperwork, tied in part to healthcare reforms driven by Obamacare, now consumes about one-sixth of a typical America physician’s day — impinging on the time doctors can spend caring for patients.
That’s the upshot of a new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers who found the average doctor spends 16.6 percent of his or her working hours on non-patient-related paperwork.
The findings, which are based on a nationally representative survey of physicians, tied the trend to changes in U.S. health policy — including a shift to employment in large practices, the implementation of electronic medical records as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the increasing prevalence of financial risk sharing.
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It’s obvious the doctors arer lying and it’s Bush’s fault.
Government kills jobs.
I’ll bet those doctors are racist too.
so much for privacy....the government knows when you’re taking a ......
You mean all those white lab coats standing behind the podium with Ebola were just props?
It’s called overwhelm’n the system, y’all.
Paperwork was a huge part of the problem BEFORE Obamacare came along. My mom was a nurse, and over the years she watched her job shift from “take care of the patients” to “fill out the paperwork, dealing with the patients when you can.” For a long time she literally signed out and then did her paperwork, because she felt she could not do her job as a nurse AND the paperwork in one shift.
Yeah, big surprise Obamacare made it worse.
You ought to see the poor judges, struggling with all the stupid computer documents, it’s a travesty.
That’s his goal. I can also hear him saying...”well, if they whine about it too much, I’ll just replace all of them. With muslims of course. Yes, I can.”
Personal experience, my family physician is pulling his hair out over obamacare, and I look for him to give up any day now.
Nurses and Doctors are now “laptop carriers”.
Was talking with the receptionist at one of my doctors after a 30-minute visit. She said “If you were a new patient, he would have lost money on your visit.”
The one-man specialist used to have his wife come in to handle the phones and do some light paperwork (had the baby there with her), and a gal that came in two half-days a week to do paperwork.
He now has two full time people drowning in paperwork.
Not just doctors are buried under compliance paperwork. I just spent all afternoon doing mandatory compliance training. Just a whole bunch of crap made up by someone who is making up work for themselves and who know nothing.
and I look for him to give up any day now.”
Several of our local doctors no longer take any insurance and will provide you with a very general receipt for services as they only take cash, checks and credit cards. They were able to reduce their staff and two of them no longer even have a computer anywhere in their office. No one I have spoken with has seen a decrease in their net income.
You're right. Dozens of FReepers NEVER explicitly detailed this exact
consequence months before 0bamaCare was even voted into law.
This is a shocking development!
Reduced staff, cash, no insurance BS to deal with, and it’s easy to see where the doctors would be better off. This is similar to the concierge clinic idea, which I can see working well for the docs and patients — docs aren’t overworked, and patients are guaranteed they’ll be seen when needed, and given the time with the doc that they need.
“Not just doctors are buried under compliance paperwork”
I work at a community non-profit hospital. Due to the mandatory EHR and O-care compliance issues we have added staff...IT people! not doctors, not nurses....computer people to try to make our computers compliant. You wouldn’t
believe the numbers of “new reporting” we are required to send the gov’t. Anyone who thinks EHR information is private needs their head examined!
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