If you could change anything about how you, as a senior, or as a caretaker of a senior, what would you change as it relates to your experience with medical care, doctors, nurses?
What is the biggest problem you face in health care? is it costs? is it the doctor patient relationship? is it the doctor's front office ?
Is it the doctor?
Many people complain that doctors dont spend enough time with them during their visit? Do you agree?
Other people, complain that doctors deal out to many prescriptions...
Let us know your thoughts...
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Keep Seniors Healthy- Bush mandates Transparent Pricing, will ebay start listing medical procedures and doctors
Is Transparent Pricing a good or bad thing?
In other words...should everyone.. understand and have access to the pricing costs of medical care, of your doctor? your hospital?
will ebay start listing medical procedures?
will people bid on their doctor to receive the lowest priced service?
Is this a good thing or not ?
Will market forces create a better priced medical delivery model?
In other words...should everyone.. understand and have access to the pricing costs of medical care, of your doctor? your hospital?
will ebay start listing medical procedures?
will people bid on their doctor to receive the lowest priced service?
Is this a good thing or not ?
Will market forces create a better priced medical delivery model?
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Keep Seniors Healthy- What are medicare beneficiaries doing to reduce their health care risks?
According to an article in Medical Economics Magazine, June 16, 2006.. more than 100,000 medicare beneficiaries have joined 8 pilot programs to reduce their health risks and improve the quality of life for the chronically ill. These programs were created by the Modernization Act of 2003 and are operating as Medicare Health Support Programs in Florida, Chicago, Washington D.C., Mississippi, Georgia , Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
This seems like a positive move from seniors and from medicare..do you agree? Have you had any experience with these programs that you can tell us about on this blog?
This seems like a positive move from seniors and from medicare..do you agree? Have you had any experience with these programs that you can tell us about on this blog?
Keep Seniors Healthy- Facts about Health Insurance
(according to “The coverage Gap: A State by State Reort on Access to Care” prepared for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation by State healthy Access Data Assistance Center, University of Minnesota, April 2006)
Did you know that 15 % of adults age 50-64 are without health insurance?
How would you solve this problem?
Did you know that 41% of uninsured adults age 18-65 could not afford to see a doctor when needed within the past 12 months?
Do you consider this a health care problem? Is this your responsibility to fix? Are we in a health care crisis?
Did you know that 57% of uninsured adults do not have a personal health care provider or physician?
Do you have any thoughts on how to lower this percentage?
Are you one of these 57%?
Did you know that 15 % of adults age 50-64 are without health insurance?
How would you solve this problem?
Did you know that 41% of uninsured adults age 18-65 could not afford to see a doctor when needed within the past 12 months?
Do you consider this a health care problem? Is this your responsibility to fix? Are we in a health care crisis?
Did you know that 57% of uninsured adults do not have a personal health care provider or physician?
Do you have any thoughts on how to lower this percentage?
Are you one of these 57%?
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Greetings From Your Editor...Steve, CEO PassportMD
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Hello, that is my picture to the left when I was hiking a glacier in Alaska. My name is Steve and this is the first time I have ever written a blog. I am writing this blog as the CEO of PassportMD to help PassportMD customers and visitors and potential customers learn about and communicate with our company.
I was inspired to set this blog up for many reasons: I enjoy writing, I enjoy helping Seniors (as a physician I have done this for the last 15 years), and also most importantly, I have an interest in using technology to help people take better care of themselves. I recently created a web site that serves just that function. The web site is called Keep Seniors Healthy.com (http://www.KeepSeniorsHealthy.com). I am hoping that this blog serves to make people aware of my web site, http://www.KeepSeniorsHealthy.com, as I have worked very hard to create a software application that can provide real benefit to people. I believe that web site will help people better manage their own health and be prepared for unexpected emergencies. I am also hopeful that this blog can create a forum or community for seniors to come and ask me questions regarding technology or larger healthcare issues. I am not creating this blog to treat, diagnose or advise anyone concerning their own personal health problems. For that I suggest you see a doctor. I just want to help with the confusing issues that face seniors in navigating the waters that we call ... healthcare.. finding the right doctors, insurance issues, discussions on experiences with their physicians, managing their healthcare, healthcare proxy, advanced directives, financing the cost of their medicines, prescriptions, new insurance alternatives, drug cards, how technology impacts your healthcare choices and your healthcare delivery, how you can be pro-active with your healthcare, and so much more...
I hope that this blog becomes something very valuable to everyone as a source of information and discussion.
Sincerely,
Steve
CEO, PassportMD, Inc
Founder of www.KeepSeniorsHealthy.com
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