[surroundedbyblue]

Ive been in healthcare since 1997. I can tell you firsthand that the government has utterly destroyed this industry - job satisfaction, patient satisfaction, quality of care, etc etc etc all while driving up the costs.

[upchuck]

I owned a company that specialized in software for medical practices.

In early 1999 I served on a vendor committee for HIPPA implementation. The other vendors and I laughed at the government bureaucrats. They had no idea how impractical their ideas were.

Had an opportunity to get out in late 1999. Just in the nick of time. Never looked back.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Ive been in healthcare since 1997. I can tell you firsthand that the government has utterly destroyed this industry - job satisfaction, patient satisfaction, quality of care, etc etc etc all while driving up the costs.”

Yes. Yes. Yes. and Yes. I'm heartbroken about where medicine is.

[lizma2]

There was a study about a year ago that said docs use to spend 5% of their time on paper work, now it’s 35%!!!”

What’s worse is when MedStar Health records got hacked and held for ransom, newbie employee didn’t know how to use paper records!! Newbie docs didn’t know how to write out prescriptions.

Typical of government regs. FUBAR