New Health Care System: Window of Opportunity.

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Major changes in society can come about through various means. This includes changes in such institutions as the Health Care Industry.

 Although most changes in the health care system are promoted from within, that does not necessarily have to be the case. In fact there are major advantages to new health care system concepts being developed from outside the medical industry. The proposed national medical information system being discussed in these articles was designed by an individual completely outside the medical profession. This provides more freedom of design, especially if you prefer to favor the public’s interests over the interests of the medical profession. Without the influence of medical industry in the background influencing the design, the public’s best interest may well be more easily served, ending up with a more balanced system. We may find this to be especially true where new applications using the latest in technology are involved.

For example, again take the proposed disease prevention system. Because of the sharp reduction in the level of chronic disease, such a system would have a dramatic short term financial effect upon the medical industry. Conservative estimates are 40% deduction in disease levels within the first few years of operation and a high as  70%, or more eventually.

Although there are advantages to such designs by individuals, there are also limitations. An individual would likely be unable to sustain the continual promotion of such a system over a substantial period of time—providing a far shorter window of opportunity to establish the system before it likely fades from the picture.

This would be especially true if the design of the system was presented in the form of a published book not available in book stores. As a result, the book, the author, and designer could be forced from the picture in a relatively short period of time if there was a lack of public interest and support. If this were to happen, this type of system may not again be brought forth for decades if ever.

Although we are constantly bombarded, with all the medical research breakthrough media hype, including all the promises of the future that never seem to arrive, one thing we have to keep clearly in mind is that we rarely ever hear about the extremely high levels of chronic disease in the United States and the enormous amount of suffering it causes with millions of people. Nor does the hype include the additional suffering that also goes on because of the enormous health care costs. These costs are having a devastating effect on the country, including the government, businesses and individuals. We are able to witness this suffering on a personal basis through our loved ones, friends and neighbors.  The question is, are we willing to live with that? Is that level of disease acceptable?

There is another consideration involved here. Whenever we receive anything of value usually there is a financial cost we have to consider—cost verses benefit. With this system, however, that too is also very unusual. Here there are amazing benefits in both directions, both in health care and costs.

Ironically on top of that, with even a limited amount of interest, it can easily be determined that the proposed system does have a very solid basis for success and in fact it would be difficult to see how it could be unsuccessful due to the core underlying basis of the design.

As discussed earlier in theses articles and in the book, the underlying basis of the proposed system is the use of a carefully designed computer processing system taking full advantage of the very latest in clinical laboratory science technology. This data would be processed through the use of the latest computer technology (including large supercomputer systems) in correlating massive amounts of proven reliable clinical laboratory data to human health and the individual human environment.

Sometimes, as individuals, we are afforded rare opportunities for a limited period of time to dramatically improve our lives.