Re: Would patients like to be able to email their doctors?

From: Josh (jumbehr_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/11/04 

Date: 11 Dec 2004 09:38:53 -0800

You call idealism, i call it seeing the forest for the trees. This is
happening and just b/c its coming from a med-student you discount it.
But just to show you i'm not a bright-eyed bushy-tailed student here
goes:

Cost of EMR - GE's Logician total package is $500/mo/physician. I will
have one staff member who will serve as a receiptionist and nurse and @
$20/hr (plus taxes etc.). Computer equiment to utilize EMR = ~10,000
-- one monitor in front office, one in patient room x 2, plus one
tablet pc, plus commerical printer.

Break down of daily schedule: 4 pts per hour @ $20-25 per patient (I'll
be cash only) @ 15 minutes per pt. I will check in every pt including
vitals b/c pts as consumers really want 'doctor time'. 4 pts/hr * 50
hr/wk * 50wk/yr = 200k. This does not include added revenue from
running tests. Instead of that being a source for overhead, i will
scan the bar-code on equipment used during the OV (not including cotton
balls, tongue depressors etc. . .) This will be similar to a 'parts
and labor' of a mechanic which will save me having to absorb these
costs as overhead. In addition, it may be a source of revenue.

These figures do not include professional costs, rent, utilities etc.
nor do they include possibble revenue from emails, lab tests, group
visits. So yes, i admitt, there is room for those numbers to move.

To prove my point further, i'll refer you onto this website from the
AAFP that lists this doctors reveunue and expenses. He's different
though: no staff, charges $65/30min, sees 12 pts a day and makes 160K+.
Not bad. And they told him he was crazy. :)
http://www.aafp.org/fpm/20020300/25goin.html

any thoughts

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