Posted on : 02-03-2010 | By : admin
Public debt is rising as a consequence of the economic crisis and will hamper governments for years to come. The situation is aggravated because health- and age-related expenditures are going to remain high or increase due to an aging population.
On the other hand others suggest clinical decision support systems to lower healt care costs.
These new technologies are a mixture of a good call center that screens call by inexpensive “lay health workers” before passing them on to higher paid professionals and a database where the higher paid professional(aka MD) can see a patient’s history (what a novel concept) when answering phone calls.
The poorer nations who cannot afford to upgrade their health care will be faced with high debt and a sick and old population. Maybe we should schedule our trips to Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain later this year before these nations rebrand themselves as sunny, decrepit asylums.
For the PIGS among the spendfree economies another technical solutions offers itself: chatroulette. Chatroulette is an internet service cooked up by a 17 year old Russian programmer which lets users randomly connect (roulette) to webcam enabled fellow chatters.
I will be your doctor and you will be mine. Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes and the internet makes us all equal. This thing about the doctor having access to your medical history is bogus anyway. Has not worked so far (incompatible systems, data not properly maintained, server down). So BYOD. Bring your own docs and show them. If you do not like your chatty doctor, at the click of a button you get another one (no paperwork, no referrals, no copay). And if you are lucky, your next doctor will show some skin ( a service few MDs are willing to perfom nowadays, even though its health benefits for depression are undisputed).
I label this system “health chat”, everyone plays roulette when trusting a health professional. The gaming aspect of health care is self understood and need not be explicitly mentioned.
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