I am concerned when all the discussion in the Capitol Hill is how to get everyone insured. Congress just burnt a whole afternoon session to go to learn the alphabet soup of health care delivery system - capitation, EMR, MRI...where do you think the government leaders are leading us to? There is no learning about why health care cost has been escalating, why the American health issues are so complex and difficult to solve.
No good discussion has been focused on why so many interest groups want to erode the mere doctor-patient agency relationship including the doctors themselves.
I am puzzled on these phenomena:
1. Doctors cannot prescribe the appropriate diagnosis and treatment unless insurance authorizes them. Going to be more so when all patients are insured as proposed.
2. Diagnosis and treatment has to fit into a no malpractice safe haven instead of years of knowledge and training tells you.
3. More and more rules and regulations hard to comprehend mostly have no bearing to medical practice.
4. When the health care providers have to figure out how to get their service compensated on what they actually provide - is it after 90 days or a whenever cycle.
Well, the health care delivery system has been sick for a long while. However, I am afraid it will be moribund when more other interest groups are attending it other than the patients and the health care providers themselves minding their relationship and responsibility first. Fundamental changes have to occur instead of building up more bureaucracy and bankrupting the Nation.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
How Can Technology Help Prevent Pandemics?
Cisco believes networking among doctors and sensors in the field can help prevent pandemics, such as H1N1.
In the demo, a camera is installed at a toll booth to measure a driver's body temperature. A network of such sensors build a picture of how many people in the area have a feaver, which may be an indicator of a disease. Meanwhile, doctors and health professional can share the latest statistics and diagnostics of patients on a social networking site, providing valuable information on the progress of the disease so that actions can be promptly taken to prevent the disease from spreading further.
Details from the PCWorld article.
(for a larger screen)
In the demo, a camera is installed at a toll booth to measure a driver's body temperature. A network of such sensors build a picture of how many people in the area have a feaver, which may be an indicator of a disease. Meanwhile, doctors and health professional can share the latest statistics and diagnostics of patients on a social networking site, providing valuable information on the progress of the disease so that actions can be promptly taken to prevent the disease from spreading further.
Details from the PCWorld article.
Demo starts at 1:35 in the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlqPph1kTaE(for a larger screen)
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