DocumentCode
1206579
Title
A hierarchically co-optimized plan for the enhanced health care system of the year 2000
Author
Schmitt, Otto
Volume
23
Issue
6
fYear
2004
Firstpage
62
Abstract
The paper presents the proposal for a System Reengineered Plan by the year 2000. This plan incorporates sufficient professional security and tolerance to allow "consciousness", at its several levels, to become a regular part of health care procedures; an inflation-adjusted decrease in the annual cost of health care delivery system with at least 50% improved performance and perceived results; a whole-life medical history card; the use of a health care computer with instructional prompting, advice resources, and competence to participate in diagnostic, monitoring, training, therapeutic, and even rehabilitative procedures in the home environment; a full National Strand Epidemiology Library database; a good repertoire of quality of life components organized hierarchically on at least three primary levels of consciousness ordinary perceptive consciousness, multibranch subsconsciousness and at least the first level of superconsciousness; a national awareness and eagerness to accept the possibility of being offered personally adapted life plans; and a well-planned strategies for research and development, marketing, education, and public relations to persuade legislators, academic researchers and educators, and biomedical device and service suppliers, to find rewards and avoid penalties by cooperating with this overall plan or improving and extending it.
Keywords
biomedical education; biomedical equipment; database management systems; health care; marketing; medical diagnostic computing; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; research and development; telemedicine; AD 2000; National Strand Epidemiology Library database; academic researchers; advice resources; annual health care delivery system cost; biomedical device and service suppliers; education; educators; enhanced health care system; hierarchically co-optimized plan; home health care computer; instructional prompting; legislators; marketing; multibranch subsconsciousness; ordinary perceptive consciousness; patient diagnostics; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; patient training; personally adapted life plans; professional security; public relations; research and development; superconsciousness; therapeutics; whole-life medical history card; Biomedical monitoring; Computer aided instruction; Computer security; Computerized monitoring; Costs; History; Home computing; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Proposals; Adult; Bicycling; Electromyography; Energy Metabolism; Exertion; Humans; Male; Muscle Contraction; Muscle, Skeletal; Musculoskeletal Equilibrium; Physical Examination; Posture; Statistics as Topic; Task Performance and Analysis; Thigh;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0739-5175
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MEMB.2004.1378637
Filename
1378637
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