Re:Why Everyone Hates the Electronic Medical Record
by pjc50 on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:55AM
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> Some of these suggestions seem like non-trivial management problems, though, I think?
Yes, that's the discipline called "operations". Crucially it's a separate set of skills from anything one might learn in medical school.
Re:Why Everyone Hates the Electronic Medical Record
by CommieBobDole on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:33AM
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>Diesel fuel and generator maintenance: how do you hire for that?
This is typically part of the job of a facilities manager, someone who is in charge of maintaining the physical structure and amenities of a building or complex of buildings. You hire for it the same way you hire for everything else; you find someone in the category that you want, who has apparent success doing something similar to what you're doing.
Diesel fuel and generator maintenance: how do you hire for that? Does that position require experience? In what? Where do you post that job ad to get qualified candidates? If you hire wrong, it seems like the results could be worse than foisting the task on a doctor, no?
Revising formularies: how many doctors at a hospital have the right expertise for that? Who cares for their patients while the formulary work is happening? Can you hire someone temporary to come do it so it doesn’t disrupt operations, and how expensive is that person and how good is the result?
I’m a software person, not a doctor, but I _can_ see how these choices would be made if the alternative seemed riskier to someone inexperienced at hiring for hospitals.