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RE: What about the patient?
All of this digitizing of medical data has met hard resistance from the medical establishment mostly since the doctors themselves. MDs are not intersted in an attorney anywhere in the world accessing patient data from a public web site to see if they can make a case for malpractice suite.
How do you fix healthcare? The answer is pretty simple, let it be a real free market.
* Limit liability of doctors actions.
* Cancel goverment assisted healthcare in all forms. Once those subsidies go away, they healthcare market will be bigger for services and prices will go down.
* Regulate health care into a limited non-profit industry that promotes alternative and holistic methods that have been around long before the Industrial Revolution.
* Create tax penalties for being sick and not working. Thus, being healthy is profitable and "sick days" are no longer long weekends and vacations.
* Most of all, put "mental health" services under the same market scruty as other industries and look for results. Imagine having a care broken and your mechanic wants to put more time into you accepting the problem instead of fixing the care. I think you get the idea.
Socializing medicine as has been shown in other countries just screws up the problem even more.
RE: What about the patient?
> > Regulate health care into a limited non-profit industry < <
Two sentences in the same comment which contradict each other!
RE: What about the patient?
The healthcare system need/wants sick people to make a living and a purpose. They also need healthy people with some thoughts to create knowledge when healthy to share tax revenue. If everyone is sick that is a windfall for healthcare and a disaster for those that earn a living creating new knowledge to share. Some have suggested a win-win solution that will inhibit the transfer of ill health via contaminated currency. Offering solution here is good for the patient and good for those that value knowledge in its many forms.
Innovation is possible as a consequence of enough people choosing democracy. Democracy allows people to create knowledge for all to share. Patients die when people (Drs) leave as a consequence of an increase cost of living that their income can no longer sustain. In other words the system cannot afford its choices. What knowledge could we create that we could share, not for free as Dr do not work for free, that can offer people driven choices to help pay for your industry? A vibrant economy offers many choices as a consequence of a productive group of folks that share their wealth (taxes, dividends, interest) just a few features of a democracy.
Some nations need healthcare more than advanced technology and some nations need advanced technology to help pay for advanced healthcare. Perhaps with all this knowledge we could find a solution so we may all have healthy choices.
Any healthy thoughts for the patient too?
E-T
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Access to MEDLINE via the Wireless link, whilst unlikely to be of immediate direct benefit to the patient, will nevertheless aid the clinician in keeping abreast of new publications in the biomedical sciences. Again, rather than having to be next to a computer, the clinician can look at what's new during a meeting with colleagues, on the way to or from work, etc.
I'll be wary of using it via a Treo and a mobile carrier; the data you get back has the potential for a large mobile bill! Definitely one to use via Wi-Fi but it's nice to know the option's there to use it on a Treo when out and about.
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What about the patient?
Who pays the bills? Who gives wealth to an industry every time we get sick and when we work?
When will a patient have a choice to securely and efficiently just walk in touch their wallet and exchange information and value built and tested right here in North America?
Health care will kill the patient if we do not understand that it is the living too, the patient, that creates value while still alive and thinking.
How will you choose to pay for your health care future choices?
Some are working to share wealth with healthcare too.
Just some thoughts.
E-T
e-tellurian
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