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Folks, are any of you getting digitally enabled health care that feels efficient and modern? In the USA or outside? I'm in the US with a large managed health care company and after an injury this week felt like they aren't really much better than any old independent practice. My doctor said my ankle _might_ be broken and a podiatrist would reach out with a recommendation. I got a generic email from podiatrist asking me to schedule an appointment (podiatrist is with the same company 1 floor down. Next appointment is more than a week away). This seems nuts to me? I can imagine a very simple workflow tool that lets a doctor send some image/test result to a specialist or a queue of specialists who take a look and give their opinion. How can a large integrated health care company not have something like that in place? Choose to behave like different offices that happen to share the same building instead?

Is anyone getting that level of digital integration and efficiency? Is this too much to expect?

Thanks!