Pricing Transparency in Healthcare for the Underserved: A Lesson from the Persian Gulf

N. King
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Transparent pricing is one mechanism purported to make healthcare more affordable in the ongoing debate to lower healthcare costs. The experience of a small hospital located in the Persian Gulf that integrated an outpatient physician order entry and billing system offers several lessons. First, IT can enable transparent pricing such that clinicians can make real-time treatment decisions that include treatment cost as a criterion. Second, a focus on pricing transparency alters the integration trajectory for healthcare information systems. While IT may enable price transparency in the examination room, technology is limited in addressing the ethical underpinning of its use.
服务不足人群的医疗价格透明度:来自波斯湾的教训
在正在进行的降低医疗成本的辩论中,透明定价是一种旨在使医疗保健更容易负担得起的机制。波斯湾一家小医院整合门诊医嘱输入和计费系统的经验提供了一些教训。首先,IT可以实现透明定价,这样临床医生就可以做出实时的治疗决策,将治疗成本作为一个标准。其次,对定价透明度的关注改变了医疗保健信息系统的集成轨迹。虽然信息技术可以使考场的价格透明,但技术在解决其使用的道德基础方面是有限的。
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