Hi, this is Nick Webb and welcome back to another episode of fixing healthcare. This is video number four in my five part series on how we reestablish the important relationship between the doctor and the patient. Now in my first module, I talked about time, there is no way in the world that we can fix healthcare without giving doctors and patients more time. As I mentioned in that module, believe it or not, there are consultants traveling around the country, helping hospitals and clinics do what we now call patient throughput optimization. What is that you ask? It means shoving more patients through a clinic every day. Why is that good? doctors offices, clinics and hospital they make money seeing patients the more patients they see, the more money they make. Why is it bad? Doctors cannot have a meaningful, impactful, especially preventative dialogue with a patient without more time. So we're going to need to fix that through changing the economic incentives and the focus of these consoles. 

The second thing I talked about in my last program was the importance of data. Unfortunately, the average caregiver is data starved. They're looking in your ear with an otoscope. They're taking blood pressure, which is oftentimes falsely elevated because of the white coat syndrome. We also have problems with just fractional data from listening to the chest with an acoustic telescope, our stethoscope, so we don't really have the right instrumentation and the information we get is very cursory. It's just a moment in time so that we know that in order to ultimately fix the data starvation that we have in healthcare, we are going to have to move towards continuous patient monitoring. A lot of people are afraid of that concept, it'll be the best thing that ever happened to individuals because we're going to save, and I'm not exaggerating millions of lives by using continuous sensors to monitor all of the vitals of a person so that the artificial machine can look at those disparate data signals to find potential problems so that they can notify your doctor before becomes deadly or become before treatment options start to fall off the table, which will be even more common. In fact, one of the major common causes of a severe cardiovascular condition is death. That's the symptom. So the key is to know what's going on before you get that troubling symptom. Right. 

So in this module, I want to talk about the resources that patients and doctors need in order to be able to fix healthcare. Now, there are two hemispheres to these resources. One hemisphere is wellness and prevention tools. The other is training. So there's tools and training resources that are needed in order for us to fix healthcare. Now I work at one of the largest medical schools in the country. And I can tell you that historically, there's been very little emphasis a matter of hours of training on nutrition and prevention. And that's unfortunate because that, of course, is where the greatest opportunity is. So we're going to now today through CME programs and through new programs, like our university has the physician of the future program, we're going to bring these new tools and these wellness and preventional modalities to our students to help them leave their medical training with the knowledge to be a wellness practitioner, a health practitioner, rather than just a person that transacts interventions. We can't just transact interventions, that is a beautiful thing. So tools and training are going to be key.