Overcoming high clinic admin costs to enable delivery of better patient care

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Overcoming high clinic admin costs to enable delivery of better patient care

30 March 2022

By Alan Chew

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 12:45 AM

Technology provides an effective way to plug the significant revenue leakages that happen at all medical centres on a daily basis, such as undercharging for ACC treatments and medical consumables [Image: Erdikocak on iStock]

In this first of a series of articles on the topic of technology innovation in the medical sector, medical software entrepreneur Alan Chew describes how high administration costs at GP clinics are a monumental obstacle to the goal of delivering better patient care, and he shares his prescription for removing that barrier

Key points, All medical practitioners are driven to deliver better patient care. A major obstacle to this goal is that 20–30 per cent of every dollar of clinic , Pract Green w Pale Yellow

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