Well, all is not lost. How's this for turnabout?
"electronic peepholes insurance companies want installed in physician EHR systems should be placed in the payers' IT systems as well.
"Today, payers tend to minimize their payout, and if that is the case, can we have access to their systems and see how they do it?" said Chittaranjan Mallipeddi, chief executive officer of MedPlexus, in Sunnyvale, Calif., a developer of a suite of EHR and practice-management software systems. "For fair play, I think physicians should ask to have access (to payers' systems). The payers should be open to that."
