Business Forum: Building the Healthcare Sector - Abdulla

Building the Healthcare Sector through Innovation & Technology

Healthcare at the Precipice
Lifestyle choices of modern society has increased the incidence of obesity and associated diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and vascular disease. Renal and heart failure are becoming progressively more rampant.
The cost of new diagnostic and therapeutic technology is rising so steeply that the economic growth of most countries is unable to keep pace with a growing and sicker population

Yesterday’s healthcare model is too expensive and is begging restructuring via innovation
Congruently, physicians are getting frustrated and a shortage of specialists is looming in the USA as they face more reimbursement cuts
We must find a way to increase the reach of specialists so that they can provide remote consultation at the point of care

Priorities within the limits of finite resources & evidence-based guidelines must be determined & implemented by the Specialists
Unbiased Evidence-based Decision making and advise is not a form of “rationing”.
It is based on solid data and may avert an inevitable “famine” of healthcare if we in Healthcare are not proactive.

Telemedicine using the MacGuyver* Approach * = MacGuyver was a TV Series that ran bewteen 1985 and 1992 Telemedicine is the component that allows Specialists to remotely interview patients and to discuss care with the Healthcare provider at the remote facility

Telemedicine Components
Articulating wall mount Flat panel TV Stand Cost = $50
Flat panel 32" Class / LED / 1080p / 60Hz / HDTV Cost = $629.99
Logitech - Revue with Google TV Cost = $99
TV cam for Logitech Review Cost = $149.99

Telemedicine Components
Skype Account = Free
A fast broadband internet connection means smooth video calls Cost = ~$70 - $100/month
Total Initial Hardware Cost, including labor = Less than $1200 + Less than $100/month for High Speed Internet Connection per point of care such as the Emergency room

Further Leveraging the Internet
Use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to generate and exchange patient clinical information. The system must be:
Pure browser based with use of Cloud Technology
Intuitive and easy to use. Relatively inexpensive. ONC-ATCB certified for Meaningful use
Powerful integrated logic so as to dispense with restrictive templates
Use of clinical diagnoses that are coupled to ICD-9 /ICD-10 billing codes. Billing codes alone do not provide sufficient & specific information about a disease state
Ability to scan documents and images for subsequent review
Secure messaging for exchange of information

Further Leveraging the Internet
Provide Online Education/Training with use of GoToMeeting or alternative web conferencing software at around $50/month. Facilitate Live Interaction with multiple Healthcare providers in different locations
Use websites to provide patients and healthcare providers with educational information. Also, allow them to review previously recorded lectures
Allow access to online textbooks and online electronic review articles to promote the practice of evidence-based medicine ( UpToDate .com )

Solutions?
Coronary artery stenting
Rotational atherectomy (PTCRA)
Conservative medical therapy on the basis of Evidence based medicine

Business Forum: Building the Healthcare Sector - Abdulla

by Patrick Ryan on Dec 23, 2011

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