tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173393362223742012.post2624809445893765521..comments2023-08-24T08:30:25.608-07:00Comments on Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You: Sleep on it.......NawhhhSteve Murphy MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11774190000307343476noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173393362223742012.post-26524596639038062892008-11-14T10:11:00.000-08:002008-11-14T10:11:00.000-08:00I disagree with doing away with coders. That is ta...I disagree with doing away with coders. That is taking jobs away from people who need the jobs. With over 500,000+ jobs lost in the last two months alone, we should not be talking about trying to do away with coders. Instead, we need to talk about preventive measures to help decrease health expenses (not just the cost of healthcare). If you ask me, more money needs to be put into clinical research for preventive care research projects to help learn how to detect diseases at an early state for people who don't have health insurance or are underinsured. <br><br>Also, you are missing a few situations where a family history examination can miss cases. I'm not saying SNP testing is better then having a family history done. <br>If I have some free time this weekend, I'll post a response here about some of the situations you are missing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173393362223742012.post-17239877675454378632008-11-14T13:18:00.000-08:002008-11-14T13:18:00.000-08:00Thanks for your thoughts. You are absolutely dead ...Thanks for your thoughts. You are absolutely dead wrong about keeping jobs that could be automated for the sake of the economy......<br><br>Healthcare costs are killing the economy and 5 billion is a lot of money....<br><br>The best solution is to cut costs on things that won't effect healthcare outcomes while spending in places that improve outcomes....<br><br>Coders don't improve outcomes and cost money.....thus wasted expense....in the end. Provided they can be automated...if they can't then it is a justified expense.<br><br>-SteveSteve Murphy MDhttp://www.helixhealthofconnecticut.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173393362223742012.post-8589504479412739892008-11-14T13:28:00.000-08:002008-11-14T13:28:00.000-08:00Then outsource all x-rays, MRI's, and other ra...Then outsource all x-rays, MRI's, and other radiology tests so we don't have to pay $50,000+ a year to radiology techs and several hundred thousands of dollars a year to pay for radiologists....we can just pay some person off the street $7 an hour to take the patient from the room to the exam room and have that person hit the "outsource" button after the exam is done. <br><br>I disagree with what you are trying to say. We can agree to disagree. <br><br>We could almost easily just have every non trauma patient go through an assembly line (x-ray, MRI, echo, lab tests, etc) and just outsource all of the information and have it reported back to a tech and the tech gives the medication or diagnosis to the patient. We wouldn't need all of these doctors, lol.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173393362223742012.post-69254460171298683942008-11-15T13:18:00.000-08:002008-11-15T13:18:00.000-08:00*cough* insiders will never cut their own industry...*cough* insiders will never cut their own industry *cough*<br><br>Also, I think it's a great idea to do away with coders. The problem is that it's the insurance companies who decide how to reimburse and why. I have every reason to believe that they'll try to argue that it's "unethical" to have a machine code insurance, and if that doesn't work, they'll change the standards to make it as hard as possible for the software to work.<br><br>"We could almost easily just have every non trauma patient go through an assembly line (x-ray, MRI, echo, lab tests, etc) and just outsource all of the information and have it reported back to a tech and the tech gives the medication or diagnosis to the patient."<br><br>We can only hope someday... (assuming it worked!)Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433343566083450681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173393362223742012.post-62108560090970988882008-11-15T13:20:00.000-08:002008-11-15T13:20:00.000-08:00But yes, I very much agree that an automated codin...But yes, I very much agree that an automated coding service would be of great benefit to health.Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433343566083450681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173393362223742012.post-15593109924876735362008-11-16T09:09:00.000-08:002008-11-16T09:09:00.000-08:00I guess we disagree.....it takes 9 years to learn ...I guess we disagree.....it takes 9 years to learn how to be a<br>doctor.....it takes 6 months to learn how to code....I hope you<br>understand the difference....<br><br>RT's see patients and help care for them....coders don't....that's<br>another difference...<br><br>BTW.....if all it took was an algorithm of MRIs, XRAYs, CT Scans and labs to make diagnosis, they would have replaced doctors a long time ago.....<br><br>-SteveSteve Murphy MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11774190000307343476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173393362223742012.post-89964174303733079962008-11-16T11:51:00.000-08:002008-11-16T11:51:00.000-08:00I was being sarcastic Steve (about the assembly li...I was being sarcastic Steve (about the assembly line stuff). I wasn't being serious. If you want to make changes, you need to work with the insurance companies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com