Healthcare Technologist's Happy New Year Poem

Twas the night before New Years
And all through the house
Each PC was sleeping including the mouse

And all of the Acronyms,
Lined up through the hall
PHR, EHR, and HIPAA,
Adoption so small.

Healthcare Companies clamoring,
Come one, and come all
Microsoft battles Google,
Steve's Revolution yet crawls.

WEBMD is King
With the most monthly visits,
As competition heats up
Draws away all the people
Including the cynics.

DOSSIA was floundering,
Nearing it’s death
Reinvestment, a lawsuit,
Phrs as an HR benefit
is given new breath.

Consumer Directed,
consumer this and that,
Consumers need money,
Emrs and phrs
Second at bat.

MDVIP and concierge medicine is sprouting,
Discharged uninsured families and children,
without their doctors are left pouting.

Minute Clinics vs. AMA
in a battle of turfs,
Reminds me of court
held by the smurfs.

In the end ,
the new year will inevitably bring,
the promise of better healthcare,
But realistically,
wont change a thing.

Ben and Jerrys Aisle 5, Hot Pockets Aisle 3, Nurse Practitioner Aisle 1. A double standard for doctors that want to dispense…

Times they are a changing….
Revolution Health buys Minute Clinics to reach customer in pharmacies. Express Care and ShopRite partner to provide health care in ShopRite super markets…
It is happening everywhere…
Here is an interesting thought.
Pharmacies can employ healthcare clinics and nurse practitioners to get more customers into their pharmacy …and sell them other items as well as pharmaceuticals and “healthcare”. Pharmacies don’t get it why AMA and doctors protest … and yet is it not a double standard though..when doctors want to sell pharmaceuticals to their patients…. Here the pharmacies protest that the doctors have a conflict of interest..and should not dispense from their office…
In both scenarios..if you boil it down , it is about… a bigger piece of the pie…pharmacies want to participate in the upside of medicine under the guise of convenience and affordability for their customers… and doctors want to participate in the upside of dispensing under the guise of convenience and affordability for their patients..meanwhile they both scream "holier than thou" in their efforts to keep either one from pursuing each other… the irony..both might be providing convenience and affordability in the midst of clear conflicts of interest, self referral abuses, stark law issues…