Sunday, February 23, 2014

Testing Advances Shift Medical Clinic Staffing

The structure of the staff serving the population using the medical clinic has changed.  The individual doctor (primary care provider) with the help of a licensed practical nurse (LPN) can now see many more patients on a daily schedule. 

The medical clinic staff now use technological advances in diagnostic testing to maintain the safety and quality standards with delivering care to greater numbers of people.  The clinic visit which involved a lengthy interview and thorough physical exam is replaced with trips to ancillary staff who can perform the prescribed diagnostic test.

The doctor interprets the testing values as a way to provide evidence for the prescribed treatment. Follow up tests (ongoing monitoring) can demonstrate the effectiveness of the prescribed treatment.

Understand that by serving more individuals and performing advanced diagnostic testing processes this will result in a capturing of more symptoms of disease that require costly treatment.   Health care spending increased from an average of 2854 dollars per person in 1990 to 8915 dollars per person in 2012 according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The theory is that early identification with fast treatment will reduce cost associated with treating a disease process that has been left to evolve.  Today's clinical staff have a greater dependence upon ancillary staff who perform advance testing processes designed to strengthen the primary providers diagnosis and treatment plan.

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