> And most hospitals can't jack up the pay to compensate
I find that hard to believe in an age of $100 saline bags, $20,000 childbirths, and 15-minute-long $500 specialist visits.
I find that hard to believe in an age of $100 saline bags, $20,000 childbirths, and 15-minute-long $500 specialist visits.
That said I agree (based on 1st hand experience) that the larger healthcare multibillion dollar systems in the US can afford to pay more for better IT/engineering. There is simply little incentive to do so. And further it’s more than just hiring a few engineers with FAANG pay... these institutions are organizationally not suited to engineering. Changing this would not be easy for them...and no, we don’t need a hospital run like Facebook or Uber.
Then there are the tons of smaller systems in the US.. they cannot afford high priced engineers regardless of the pre-insurance line charge for a bag of saline.
In medicine, doctors are king. Everyone else is a peon.
It's the bureaucrats who are kings.