PERSONAL HEALTH CARE - OWN IT!

“A Chicken In Every Pot”

A DOCTOR IN EVERY HOUSE-Preventive Medicine

Personal Healthcare - Take Control

At a time when we are threatened with the reduction or loss of #Medicare to seniors (who have paid into a dedicated fund during their entire working lives) and when healthcare costs continue to escalate exponentially when compared with all other financial indicators, and finally when reality hits us in the face that we are simply not capable of continuing in the direction we are headed; then the time is now! With regards to our own health, we need to take control and play a greater roll in that process rather than delegating it to others.

It is unconscionable and a source of national shame that this nation should be turning any portion of its population away from the urgent care for which they are in desperate need. #Healthcare to #Wealthcare? At a time when people have lost their homes due to government and corporate fraud and/or malfeasance, we cannot allow our nation to continue down this path. What next...mass graves for the homeless and those who have succumbed to a nation lacking in compassion and foresight? Aside from all else, our national dignity is at risk. This is the Twenty First Century! It's time that we climb into it. This nation's founders would have included health care as a fundamental right, and it wouldn't have taken twelve thousand pages to spell it out. R&D; subsidized education; grants...We paid for it!

 Access to cutting edge health care has always presented us with a socio/economic dilemma. How do we provide the optimum available care to the greatest number of people? How much are we willing and/or able to pay for our biological health while considering the realities and the dynamics of our overall economic health? If the goal is to provide the greatest number of people with the very best available diagnostics; the most up to date knowledge base; a most comprehensive, complete and centrally located medical and personal history; safe data storage; early intervention and a course of action based upon the most complete intelligence gathering and organizing capabilities, for review by the best practitioners in the world… and all of this available to the greatest numbers of people…well, the technology is right in front of us. The adage: “I don’t know what I don’t know” is at play here while despotic corporate and government interests would just as soon keep it that way. Knowledge is power! Knowledge in the hands of the few maintains the elitism and the status quo for those who already have it and who would deny it to others.

The personal computer in most every home provides the raw computing power to be all of these “experts on call” to each and every one of us. At the very least it can preempt time consuming and unnecessary telephone calls with nested and multi-tiered menus, redirects and redundant or inapplicable messages, or a trip to the doctor or to the hospital. The computer is better at data research, data recall and cross referencing than any human being alive today. We simply need to provide it with the raw data in order for it to process, analyze and prescribe. Aside from proprietary software, the only factor missing is the interface, and yet these are either readily available or in production.

Medical records = medical knowledge. Would you rather trust yourself to keep your own records complete and accurate, or would you prefer to delegate that responsibility? Wouldn't you prefer to have instant and secure access to your own complete medical record?...the very same or even more comprehensive medical records to which those in government and corporate America already have unlimited access? Would you like to have access to the newest, most cutting edge technology available in the entire world? Or, would you rather continue to allow the American Medical Association and others to be the arbiters and gate-keepers of all medical knowledge bases? How many individuals have crossed state and even national borders in search of treatment or medications that remain unavailable where they live?

Many of us already have the means for interfacing with digital thermometers; and blood pressure cuffs while still others are doing their in home testing for diabetes and cholesterol. Everyday, new bio-markers are being identified for quick and accurate testing. (Bio marker blood test for Pancreatic cancer has recently been added to the rapidly expanding list for in-home testing.) Micro-cameras capable of expanding our own personal ability to self-examine, and cardio sensors that can give us an immediate, in home EKG are all current technology that will give us the ability to consolidate information and to have e-consultations with leading, world-wide professionals in the appropriate field.  You can even add a personal daily questionnaire to the software for diagnosis of a personal state of being or a wellness chart.

Based on your own credible input, along with readily available transducers, and a proprietary software package, your computer can instantly generate algorithms and flow charts so as to intelligently advise you and your family on the next logical course of action and which, if any, professional health service(s) you should seek.

My only remaining question is “why!” Why haven’t we done this already? It is the most obvious answer to our current healthcare dilemma! The alternative, I believe will be a future filled with a major portion of the population being administered to by non-registered individuals practicing medicine without a license and administering elixirs and potions while catering to those who have been excluded from conventional health care due to economic considerations.

Tools For Self Evaluation and/or Algorithmic Information Flow

Home Sensors Available: (Interface Standardization such as USB)

·         BP

·         Thermometer

·         Heart Rate

·         Galvanic Skin Response

·         Hearing

·         Imaging Devices

o   EKG/EEG-Neural Imaging)

o   Ultra Sound
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging

o   Thermal Imaging

o   Video Camera (Micro-Capsule or flexible tube)

·         Chemical Analysis

o   Blood Sugar/Glucose

o   Cholesterol

o   Pregnancy

o  PH

·         Semiconductor Transducers

o   accelerometers, gyros, capacitive, resistive, thermal and pressure sensors

·         Microcontrollers, hybrid MPU/DSPs, AD and DA converters

Home Sensors Envisioned:

·         Hand Held Non-Ionizing Imaging Device

o   EMG
   MRI

o   Bone Density

·         Developing Specific Antigen Recognition Transducers

o   PSA, BRACA, DNA, Etc.

Armed with all of this current information, the bio-feedback thus obtained will motivate, suggest and further guide us toward natural and dietary remedies along with a healthier lifestyle.

Due to economic considerations, (perceived & actual) the following list comprises those whom I believe would not look favorably upon this multi-faceted approach to personalized healthcare

·         Medical Clinics and Laboratories

·         Insurance Companies

·         Regulating Agencies

·         The Legal Profession

Going Forward:

Expertise Required:

·         Software Developer

·         Medical Adviser

·         CAD

Keep It Simple

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