Re:Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
by guelo on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:58AM
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I'm with Kaiser and my favorite thing compared to the PPOs I've been with in the past is the integrated IT health records. Any doctor, specialists, ER, can see my whole history of ailments and drugs and lab test results. When my doctor orders up a specialist or a pharmacy I don't have to re-explain anything, it's all in the system. I'm sure it helps reduce medical errors.
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Re:Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
by briffle on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @12:44PM
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They were the first 'big' client of Epic Software. Many other hospital systems around the US now use Epic, and have similar features.
Re:Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
by guelo on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:32PM
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The difference is when you're on something like BlueCross you have a "network" of hospitals and independent doctors and labs and pharmacies that you can choose from. But those are not on all on one IT system and a lot of times they have no way of communicating with each other. With Kaiser it's all vertically integrated under one company that can impose a system-wide IT system.