Healthy world…audience: who has my best interest at heart??
Who will do best for the average consumer?Andy: YOU. the consumer. We do not have a system of care in the US. Money flows in health care focuses on themselves and not YOU, the consumer. Saying this, people go into healthcare to help. The reason to give people power….IS TO EMPOWER YOU TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. YOU MUST LOOK OUT FOR YOURSELF….BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO.We all about this ….human nature is not always motivated to help you more than you can help yourself.How many of you have children? How many have kept a daily baby book? Oh, you were distracted…by all of the daily living. If you don’t keep the baby book up-to-date,it tells me that you need to be responsible to keep your own records OR ELSE the doctor or medical system will have to make decisions without all of the info on your health.But since you may not keep all records….there needs to be a system to help you do this.Queston: Several of you represent large organizations? will you let people tell you how to run your company? Will you become a democracy?Grant: YES. It is happening right now. We need consumers to build the systems for health care.Don: We know consumers will be in charge of the changes.Question: We have a severly broken health care system. If the political debate will not cure the system, what are you doing to provide a forum to help consumers become involved to solve the health care crisis?Grant: We have a web site asking folks to get engaged in the problem solving. there is no perfect health care system. Every system has problems…..because people are becoming more unhealthy themselves. IN the end, if we as a people don’t change…..Bert: there needs to be awareness surrounding the problem. who is paying for the solutions? Microsoft does not want to dictate….and we are aware of the broken health care systemScott: Canada is socialized. It developed by local hospitals, coupled with a political movement that influenced the entire country.Andy: I worry that we have broken a social contract. It used to be felt that we were all engaged to provide basic health care services for EVERYONE. This is not true anymore…what is talked about personal responsibility… is for the individual. We are losing sight of helping society….as a whole. We give away free care for dealing with lack of health care coverage for those uninsured. Emilio: We are actually pushing for change. AARP feels that everyone must be involved to make the necessary health care changes. We are currently in an unsustainable system. Audience: We do have a lack of health care system and I don’t feel the government can provide us with a workable system.Andy: Put together your own health care system. How would you pick it?audience: based on performance of physician; part on service; I would look for folks available on weekends and evenings.Andy: You really don’t have enough data to make the best health care system.Audience: Media has a tremendous opportunity. when it comes to health….it is hard to make the leap whether the individual how to decipher the online info. You may find a trusted source….As a physician, I would give consumers a list of RIGHT questions to ask…have enough info on your topic to know which questions to ask that will help yourself. We should use today’s technology to gather the basic information about people and give them “guidance”. We may not fill out the baby book, but if someone asks us specific questions, we would access it. Today’s media technology can help us today.Kendall: As this session closes….the individual’s best future lies in the best interest of companies and working together.IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGY IN THE AREA OF HEALTH CARE, PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUGGESTION.THE END…..
