Surviving in the Modern Healthcare Arena

1. Surviving in the Modern Healthcare Arena
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2. Modern Healthcare
• The advent of modern healthcare technologies has
brought about a complete overhaul of how care
providers used to perform their duties
• The emergence of tools such as Electronic Health
Records (EHR) has minimized usage of paper
• Previously, care providers had to interact more with
people to get things done, work on paper for
administrative tasks, and rely on referrals
• Experts then believed that this was wasting a lot of
time for the providers, and especially, for their
patients

3. Modern Healthcare
• If a provider could previously examine 50 to 100
patients in one day without an Electronic Health
Record, they could entertain approximately 250
patients with EHR
• For providers, and for the health of the population,
time is an asset more valuable than any amount of
dollars
• To survive in this age where digital trumps
traditional, providers have to manage a lot of things
differently, because it will help them save lives,
reduce costs, and yield higher returns

4. Modern Healthcare
• The dominant change that care providers are facing
now is the usage of technology
• It is therefore even more important for them to
differentiate technology that is good from bad, and
start using the most user-friendly software for their
practice
• Since a lot of the daily routine involves working on
computers for data-entry tasks, providers should be
equipped with the best technology available in the
market

5. Modern Healthcare
• Today, providers assert that their job is not the same
anymore
• What they need to realize is that data-entry is saving
their own time and cost, and it is not part of their
healthcare duty
• They need to do the administrative tasks, or get
them done through other people as soon as possible
so that they can work on the job that they love;
providing quality healthcare

6. Modern Healthcare
• In the end, care providers need not worry about the
technological changes that have taken place at their
workplace
• Providers have to keep their values as care providers
intact, and keep on doing the great job that they
have been doing

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