Healthspital 4.0: Re-Visioning the American Community Health-Care Experience

Thomas Kuhn taught that an anomaly is needed to engender a paradigm shift. Medical/surgical treatment costs are unsustainable and, therefore, represent that anomalous predicament currently. Superlative outcomes are not consistently delivered for the money expended. There is no system for true health-care delivery. This session will expand on The Futurist article and explore five major drivers of ineffectiveness in the now non-system:

Appropriate levels and providers of care-entry and use.
End-of-life care and dignity.
Complex care and multiple and chronic conditions: integrate and coordinate.
Wasteful, fraudulent, redundant, duplicative care with rework and variation.
Preventive, alternative, maintenance strategies to maximize health, wellness, well-being, and flourishing.

This interactive session will then encourage attendees to critique and improve upon the ideas.

Highlights:

Participants will leave the session with an understanding of:

The social, financial, educational, political, psychological, and traditional barriers to development and implementation.
The next steps to prototype and create proof-of-concept.

Frank W. Maletz is a practicing orthopedic surgeon who developed this model after 33 years in American medicine and active patient care—25 of those years in community based practice, East Lyme, Connecticut, USA.