The Vanishing Oath is a film ANYONE trying to improve healthcare must see; we can all make a difference

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My wife is a physician... and I watch, and I learn. I see the good in US medicine, I see the bad in US medicine. The good is the people - everyone in medicine gets into it for the right reason. The bad, well, its the environment. The system is setup backwards in so many ways - its setup to treat people after they are sick, not to prevent them from getting sick. Its setup so that physicians, as you will see in the clip above, are spending more time on coding and other administrative tasks rather than treating. Its setup that we do the rare and complex optimally, but we do the everyday and basic poorly. Though the clip above is a bit of an extreme example, it does point to the difficult in treating patients well in US Medicine today.
My goal in healthcare is to make the everyday easy and help hospitals make better informed decisions. Right now the simple blocking and tackling in healthcare is very difficult, manual, and error prone. It creates billions of dollars in waste in hospitals annually and it kills 1,000's of lives. In fact, our whole mission is to make the everyday in healthcare simple, through good and appropriate use of technology (though that may sound like an oxymoron, or just moronic).  That will drive more dependable data and smarter healthcare.  That is my and my colleagues commitment to improving healthcare and has been since we started Mobile Aspects. And we are proud we are impacting hospitals positively everyday.

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