Every day, technology has impacted thousands of doctors to increase their income and to monetize those “hidden” fees.
As is public knowledge, we are in a context of crisis of the private healthwith outdated fees that are charged at the wrong time. A pediatrician is charging around 7,000 pesos today for a consultation within a social work or prepaid plan. This same pediatrician receives countless WhatsApp messages from his patients every day, with questions about what to do when faced with a cough, fever, and stomach aches in children.
This professional, as well as others from different specialties, therefore accumulates hours of consultation without receiving the corresponding fees, and must also write prescriptions electronically.
Argentina’s health system has been in a “coma” for years and health professionals are the main victims of this deterioration. They have been working as providers of social services and/or prepaid health insurance – wrongly called “financiers” – because the only true financiers of the sector are actually the health professionals, who work today and get paid in two months with the loss due to inflation that this implies.
According to a survey conducted by Wiri Salud, the network of professionals in the sector, for a third of these professionals to be able to survive, They work more than 12 hours a day.
Regarding the fees received from funders (social services and prepaid health plans), 70% believe that they should be “at least double or more.”
In this context, digitalization is a direct tool that can help them improve their income and working conditions.
For example, a practice management system It has these advantages:
- charge fees at updated market valueswith payment methods that are embedded in the same platform, including a previously unheard of benefit, which is have an income every time you write an electronic prescription.
- reduce patient absenteeism, and thus optimize office time, where most of the time the professional must pay a fixed rent, while the income is variable and depends on the patients fulfilling their commitment to attend the consultation.
- connect with patients: The visibility provided by social work and prepaid cards is not the only or last space where the specialist can find his patients; the management system fulfills this role of interconnection and amplification of the professional.
- have tools that optimize the professional’s time, such as the digital medical record, which can be accessed regardless of the physical location where they are.
- have your own URL where all the information related to the office is located: appointments, prescriptions, medical records, etc.
We see how technology has impacted thousands of doctors every day, increasing their income and helping them monetize those “hidden” fees that cost nothing less than their time and professional experience.
In addition to the other leg of digitalization that helps them optimize the management of the office and be sustainable, being what we think is These are the first steps in a revolution in private healthcare.
Source: Ambito
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