I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to • Hacker News Board

Re: I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to

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Post by Siira » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 11:53 AM UTC

duffpkg wrote: post #65

Wrote Hacking Healthcare for O'Reilly, created ClearHealth/HealthCloud open source EMR, managed health systems for 15+ years, blah, blah, blah. It is very good there is are the transparency regulations. It is worth briefly explaining some of the reasons why many facitilities are having a hard time complying. There are some bad actors, absolutely true. However "Hanlons Razor" -- never attribute to malice that which is…

Hanlon’s Razor is the most stupid meme I have seen. It doesn’t matter that X did not implement a way to cancel their subscription easily because they were “incompetent.” The key point to ask is, if the incentives were reversed, would X suddenly become much more competent? If yes, they are very much a malicious agent and must be dealt with accordingly.

Re: I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to

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Post by Siira » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 12:11 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #144

jjoonathan wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> institutional stupidity If you are a hospital, and you are shopping for an EMR to maximize revenue, is that a feature or is it a bug? Evil, yes, stupid, no.

I've worked with many, many hospital IT departments as a consultant, contractor, and vendor. It's absolutely stupidity.

Do you understand that you’re claiming that if the money flow was reversed, the IT departments wouldn’t fix this issue in, say, three years?

Because I have seen many people, and they do the tasks asked of them. They are “stupid” on tasks not prioritized, but their employers are perfectly happy with that.

Re: I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to

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Post by camillomiller » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 9:03 AM UTC

Mordisquitos wrote: post #287

camillomiller wrote: post #272

I analyzed Italian hospital costs so you don't have to: it's 0.

Your sarcastic comment was ironically invalidated by failing to copy the headline exactly. I assure you that the costs of Italian hospital are much, much greater than 0. Now, their prices on the other hand, that's another matter...

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