Clinical RawlsianAfter working in American healthcare for 11 years, I feel confident saying that it is, as a whole, one of the most badly managed sectors in the entire economy. Every healthcare organization I have worked for – public and private – has been grossly mismanaged. The few competent managers there are either get passed over for promotion or driven out all together. I don't pretend to know why healthcare management is so uniquely bad, but I suspect a lot of it has to do with The Joint Commission.
4mc@MadMadMadMadRN Because there is no incentive for it to be efficiently managed. They raise prices to cover for the inefficiency, they make things more complicated because making things simpler requires smart thinking and often less staff and that's bad for middle management. If the Healthcare sector wasn't so heavily regulated and profitable it would be ripe for disruption but there are so many peopek and so much money to fight change. Which of course you know...
Green Roc Thoughts@MadMadMadMadRN From my position as an American who has been denied health care multiple times, I see the health care sector existing more for profits,than for real health care to all Americans. The more complex and specialized a patient's needs are, the less likely they will receive adequate care, as the priority of care is placed on the wider group, than one individual (me). I'm not surprised management is also pretty bad at doing the right thing, in favor of doing the more profitable thing.
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EVHaste@MadMadMadMadRN This mirrors my experience in healthcare software development. :(