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‘Healthcare’ System That Profits From the Sick Needs
Widespread Disruption, Surgeon-Scientist Says
Cleveland, OH-
America’s healthcare system
is the most expensive in the world, but more money hasn’t
equated to better patient outcomes, explains
surgeon-scientist Firouz
Daneshgari. Consider
this: Americans spend 300-500% more than those in Europe or
Japan on healthcare, but our country consistently ranks
between 30th-40th in the World Health Organization’s ratings
for patient longevity, access to care and prevalence of
chronic conditions. What’s worse, medical errors are the
third leading cause of death in the U.S. Only heart disease
and cancer claim more lives. Why are we spending so much,
but getting so little?
In his new book,
Dr.
Daneshgari draws upon
more than 30 years of research to offer an unflinching
exploration into the systemic dysfunction caused (primarily)
by America’s fee-for-service healthcare model. Procedures
and surgeries generate revenue; healthy people don’t. Can
our healthcare system be healed?
“We have built a
system specialized for sick care, and yet ironically we
expect the results of ‘healthcare’ from it,” he said.
Daneshgari details a
framework for a new healthcare paradigm that prioritizes
mitigation of health risks and elimination of chronic
conditions, and rewards guardianship of health, not delivery
of sick care services.
“My aim is to
generate a national dialogue and movement toward a path
forward that will create the next model of healthcare
delivery. A model that will have all the medical and
technological advances, and yet it is accessible,
affordable, high quality and consumer centric and
not-provider -centric” Daneshgari said.
He describes how this new model can be implemented using the
existing primary care infrastructure, with the integration
of virtual health and wellness services to make proactive,
consumer-centric healthcare as convenient and affordable as
shopping and banking.
Acting like a
whistle blower who calls out the existing dysfunction of the
system, Daneshgari offers an imminently available remedy
that would create the next generation of healthcare that is
accessible to all, affordable by everyone and will provide
the quality desired by healthcare consumers.
About the Author
Firouz Daneshgari, M.D., is a surgeon- scientist, educator
and entrepreneur who has worked at the University of
Colorado, Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve
University. He has published more than 200 scientific
articles, led numerous scientific and clinical panels, and
trained hundreds of students, residents, fellows and junior
faculty.
Following implementation of the Affordable Care Act and
approval of its mandates by the Supreme Court during
2010-2012, he founded BowTie Medical to create systematic
innovations for bringing efficiency and value into the
healthcare delivery system.
In addition to Health Guardianship, Daneshgari shares
his views on healthcare and the path forward through his
podcast, Why Can’t We Have it All? The Missing Pieces in Our
Healthcare (www.wcwha.com).
For more information, visit
www.bowtiemedical.com.
Health Guardianship: The Remedy to the Sick
Care System
Publisher: Merack
Publishing
Release Date:
October 24, 2022
ISBN-10: 1957048646
ISBN-13: 978-1957048642
Available now at Amazon.com
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