Comments on: Does wireless health need a medical app store? http://mobihealthnews.com/5026/does-wireless-health-need-a-medical-app-store/ mobihealthnews - the daily mHealth industry monitor. Subscribe for our free weekly e-newsletter! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Voran http://mobihealthnews.com/5026/does-wireless-health-need-a-medical-app-store/comment-page-1/#comment-14944 David Voran Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:20:06 +0000 http://mobihealthnews.com/?p=5026#comment-14944 The big unanswered bogie in the room is payment reform. Just who's going to lead the way? Tremendous pressures on us physicians to be productive (aka see more patients and do more procedures). Nurses, administrators, clerks and all of the people in our offices depend on each of us to bring in $400K minimum in order to keep our doors open. At around $0.60 to the dollar that means we have to bill out $0.6M a year. The physicians that get the pats are those that are bringing in > $1M per year. Nobody pays us to try something that doesn't contribute to the bottom line no matter how much lip service they give in support of eVisits, attempts to keep patients out of the clinic and hospital. The whole system would crash if we did that. So once again, who do you think will lead the way? The big unanswered bogie in the room is payment reform. Just who’s going to lead the way? Tremendous pressures on us physicians to be productive (aka see more patients and do more procedures). Nurses, administrators, clerks and all of the people in our offices depend on each of us to bring in $400K minimum in order to keep our doors open. At around $0.60 to the dollar that means we have to bill out $0.6M a year. The physicians that get the pats are those that are bringing in > $1M per year.

Nobody pays us to try something that doesn’t contribute to the bottom line no matter how much lip service they give in support of eVisits, attempts to keep patients out of the clinic and hospital. The whole system would crash if we did that.

So once again, who do you think will lead the way?

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