StopHealthBarriers podcast

Today, many people express intense displeasure with the quality and cost for healthcare services.

Detecting drift of test results into an abnormal zone is called – early diagnosis. Know Your Colors provides you with an intuitive display of your medical test results over time,

Therefore when you arrive at your medical appointment, you’re armed with objective information. So, you and your care provider can have a meaningful discussion.

This podcast is inspired by recent press articles dealing with tenured medical school professors who are now, and have been receiving lucrative kick-backs of cash and gifts from drug companies to conduct research that encourages the use of the drug company’s newest drug.

Modern Healthcare can be accessed in many ways, phone, internet, big box stores, clinics or hospitals. The expansion of these models is the result of innovative technology and software applications.

But the principles of quality control and good public health must be followed if we expect safe, affordable, care and a value-based outcome. This podcast explores each ambulatory care method.

A value-based outcome is the health benefit received for each dollar spent.

But how do we measure this health benefit correlated to each dollar spent? How can we determine the value of a delivered health service, when we don’t even have a measure for the starting level of an illness?

“Know Your Colors” calculates an illness complexity score to provide a measure of your total illness burden and the monthly dollar cost for medical care, along with a dynamic measure of treatment results.

This episode will highlight the advantages of our innovative software tool Know Your Colors and compare it to existing patient engagement tools.

Better patient engagement, improved cost transparency, and reliable quality scoring of healthcare providers are crucial concerns for patients, providers, and insurers in this period of rising healthcare costs. The “Know Your Colors” web application provides an answer to these challenges through an innovative web platform that replaces scoring of quality care based on bills and claim data to an objective data system based on routine personal medical test results.

One of the greatest challenges facing the United States is the opioid crisis. This crisis causes despair, suicide, and shreds the moral fabric of America. Yet at its simplest level, it’s a problem of supply, demand, and a solution that evades us. Many experts place the supply problem on the medical profession, the demand problem on Big Pharm for faulty research and greed, which masquerades the latest new opioid drug as safe.

The rehabilitation of a drug or alcohol addict is not a one-month affair. It’s usually a life-time quest, which requires a strong daily commitment by the addict, and the support of trained professionals, family, friends, and co-workers.

This podcast will expose the false hopes and dangers for incorrect selection of sober home facilities, which have unproven approaches for "cures" to addictive disorders. It also will suggest pathways to certified addictive disorder physician specialists.

Consider all the barriers that obstruct a value-based outcome in traditional medicine. The greatest barricades impeding access to healthcare value reside in the domain of mental health services.

Mental health care is hindered by an incomplete understanding of brain function, the inability to predict cost of care, and the randomness of when a psychiatric emergency will trigger gun violence or suicide. This podcast will argue its inclusion as part of traditional medical care.

Health barriers mix the concrete of income protection and market share, mixed with binders like poor transparency among doctors, payers and patients. The result is lower quality at higher price.

Medical care is a personal touch affair. Though experts may craft a treatment plan, its delivery or follow up requires skill, compassion, and hand holding delivered by nurses. Nurses live with hospital patients and form super-glue bonds that may fade on discharge. But leave a tattoo on the soul.