pitfalls of current health administration

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onto today’s topic: pitfalls of current health administration 🏥 

let me spit a few statistics at you real quick:

• administrative work consumes one-sixth of american physicians' working hours and lowers their career satisfaction (source).

• the average doctor spends 8.7 hours per week (16.6% of working hours) on administration (source).

• when time is converted to dollars, it’s estimated that the time spent on interacting with administrative tasks costs at least $23 billion to $31 billion each year (source).

clearly, there’s a problem here. if you’re looped in at all with ai, there also seems to be a pretty clear answer: automating health administration with the help of ai agents and a more effective full stack flow. 🤖 

people that know me pretty well are well aware that i’m obsessed with everything healthtech — specifically the problem areas of improving efficiency and accessibility. not only does streamlining the provider side’s workflow help the physicians and healthcare workers (obviously), but it also helps the patient side eventually.

how many times have you been redirected to a different doctor, another clinic or subjected to endless paperwork as a patient? it’s all so tedious because the doctors themselves are so backlogged with piles of minor administrative tasks. those minutes add up quickly for both parties. ⏰ 

there’s a lot of potential for ai to lead the upheaval of patient intake and ehr systems. it’s only a matter of time.

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