Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s...
by throwaway894345 on Monday October 31, 2022 @05:55PM
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> patient outcome data is not required to determine which medicines are most profitable
This is blatantly false. Pharma spends tons of money to buy this data for their armies of researchers in order to determine outcomes. There's an entire very lucrative industry (that I work in) which exists to source this data from hospitals and refine it for researchers.
If the point of documentation was CYA, then you wouldn't need complicated systems like Epic to standardize the documentation and make it available for electronic processing (you would just have some paralegal pour over the records of the individual patient).
This is blatantly false. Pharma spends tons of money to buy this data for their armies of researchers in order to determine outcomes. There's an entire very lucrative industry (that I work in) which exists to source this data from hospitals and refine it for researchers.
If the point of documentation was CYA, then you wouldn't need complicated systems like Epic to standardize the documentation and make it available for electronic processing (you would just have some paralegal pour over the records of the individual patient).