tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post178177490459529753..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: "Immersion Day" to Expose Hospital Board Members to Real Health Care for a Day - A Great Idea, but Why Should It Be News?Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-55299269705014636082016-04-27T20:48:12.611-04:002016-04-27T20:48:12.611-04:00First we had robber barons. After they were reine...First we had robber barons. After they were reined in, regulatory capture. After a bit of useful investigative reporting (remember the old 60 Minutes?), we now have Media Capture. What's left, Internet bloggers like Roy in a sea of social media enabled corporations. For each Roy, there are likely 100s or 1000s of freelance Internet writers trying to eek out money for food, they survive Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-61892294591002715172016-04-26T21:45:40.708-04:002016-04-26T21:45:40.708-04:00Isn't there a law against false advertising wh...Isn't there a law against false advertising when a hospital says they care? I guess they are too smart for that, they say their doctors and nurse care, which is true. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-12289943934848359362016-04-24T22:57:23.944-04:002016-04-24T22:57:23.944-04:00Seriously, what commercial operation is allowed to...Seriously, what commercial operation is allowed to not tell you the price before they make a transaction. <br /><br />Can you just imagine the managerialists licking their revenue generation chops in that one?<br /><br />The wrongness of the US healthcare system is obvious to the people. Why not the media?<br /><br />This that the money spent on ads has anything to do with it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-52936566396040282592016-04-24T02:11:04.340-04:002016-04-24T02:11:04.340-04:00Does immersion day include finding out the medicat...Does immersion day include finding out the medication you got before with a reasonable copay now costs you 100s or 1000s? http://www.post-gazette.com/business/healthcare-business/2016/01/26/Mars-retiree-baffled-by-chan/stories/201601260035<br /><br />Bet she wishes she had a choice of treatments with the knowledge of their cost and efficacy.<br /><br />Can the hospital accept a return if she has Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-11966279053677276092016-04-21T10:16:29.424-04:002016-04-21T10:16:29.424-04:00Reporter John Stossel is having his own immersion ...Reporter John Stossel is having his own immersion days, he says:<br />“But as a consumer reporter, I have to say, the hospital’s customer service stinks. Doctors keep me waiting for hours, and no one bothers to call or email to say, ‘I’m running late.’ Few doctors give out their email address. Patients can’t communicate using modern technology."<br /><br />What you want to bet that as a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-50841277301733307222016-04-20T16:20:30.811-04:002016-04-20T16:20:30.811-04:00Pre- and post-immersion day did the board field mu...Pre- and post-immersion day did the board field multiple robot calls from the Obama Care Hotline?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-55240640372746357092016-04-16T00:35:58.110-04:002016-04-16T00:35:58.110-04:00Did immersion day include driving around for an ho...Did immersion day include driving around for an hour looking for a parking spot that didn't cost a half day of wages?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-47926183520422851682016-04-11T20:25:26.977-04:002016-04-11T20:25:26.977-04:00If healthcare leaders had to spend hours on the ph...If healthcare leaders had to spend hours on the phone trying to figure out what medications are covered by their insurance so they can get treatment then they might understand .... goes double for politicians.<br /><br />Every time the new system forces you to change coverage every year all of January and most of February is spent trying to re qualify for meds you have been on for years. Guess Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-39362269990638061612016-04-11T13:26:42.995-04:002016-04-11T13:26:42.995-04:00If the Board members and Administrators were given...If the Board members and Administrators were given high deductible health plans, then they might learn about high healthcare costs. Similarly for politicians...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-76051227856083333862016-04-10T18:19:51.533-04:002016-04-10T18:19:51.533-04:00And here I thought the board members were being tr...And here I thought the board members were being treated at the hospital in a manner similar to us commoners. I know the high and mighty would NEVER put up with that. They get the VIP rooms and treatment as do their kin and buddies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-68959816255123337492016-04-08T13:37:10.331-04:002016-04-08T13:37:10.331-04:00that should say, "... did lecture me on how m...that should say, "... did lecture me on how medical computing was no different than any other type of computing, based on his tremendous expertise in the <i>former</i> (i.e., zero)."<br /><br />-- SSInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-56705240567954815262016-04-08T13:35:39.987-04:002016-04-08T13:35:39.987-04:00When I was a CMIO in the late 1990s I wanted the B...When I was a CMIO in the late 1990s I wanted the Board members on the IT Committee I attended to take a tour of the data center and see the complexities of an EHR firsthand.<br /><br />They never took me up on the offer, but one of them, a DuPont IT "C" level officer, did lecture me on how medical computing was no different than any other type of computing, based on his tremendous InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.com