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Saving American Healthcare
A President Putting American Patients First
Sarju Bharucha, JD, Editor-in-Chief
A President Putting American Patients First
Sarju Bharucha, JD, Editor-in-Chief
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“No dream is too big.
No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach,” President Donald John Trump It is with this passion and drive that our President’s actions of Putting American Patients First is yielding significant improvements to healthcare for the American people. It is for these promises made and for these promises kept to the American people that we honor President Trump as our 2018 SafeCare Person of the Year – and yes, for the second year in a row!
In Saving American Healthcare – A President Putting American Patients First, SafeCare magazine examines President Trump's 2018 accomplishments which included:
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Saving American Healthcare
A President Putting American Patients First Year after year, businessmen, hospital administrators and other fat cats talk about improving healthcare for the American people. Year after year, the only improvements we see are the enhancement of their personal portfolios, salaries, and benefits. Also, the all-talk, do-nothing politicians pledge the healthcare Promise Land to the American people if they get elected. But once they reach the nation’s Capital, they catch the “enrich themselves” bug, forget the healthcare promises, and begin reaping the rewards of government on the backs of working Americans. Not so for our 2018 Person of the Year. He defies the gloom and doom naysayers by delivering over and over again for American patients. |
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2018 SafeCare Magazine Person of the Year
The Other 9 Finalists Jeff Bezos – Amazon (Venture addressing healthcare cost); Tianqiao Chen & Chrissy Lou - Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (Brain-machine interface); Marc Benioff – Salesforce (IT to address healthcare cost); Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD – Cleveland Clinic (Putting Patients First priority); Jaime Dimon – JPMorgan Chase (Venture addressing healthcare cost); Ken Langone - Invemed (NYU grant to address physician shortage); Mark & Pricilla Chan Zuckerberg, MD – Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (IDseq- Infectious Disease sequencing hypothesis); Masayoshi Son – SoftBank (AI doctor to increase doctors' consultation efficiency); Sobhi Batterjee – Saudi German Hospitals Group (Addressing healthcare access in MENA). |
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SafeCare Applied Intelligence
Our intelligent software offer predictive insights to aid real-time decision support and target opportunities of care to optimize quality, reduce errors, and control cost. Quality Measure Reporting – Readmissions Reduction Patient Safety Measure I Reporting – Healthcare Infections Prevention Patient Safety Measure II Reporting – Medication Safety Patient Safety Measure III Reporting – Sepsis Care Patient Safety Measure IV Reporting – Inpatient Mortality Intervention Efficiency Measure Reporting – High Dollar Utilization Outpatient Measure Reporting – Duplicate Utilization |
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The Invisibles
Unpaid Caregivers of the Elderly Despite the tremendous responsibilities, moral obligations, and technical duties, the role of unpaid caregiver has not been formally acknowledged. There is no compensation under national social security, health insurance, welfare services, or local resources. |
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Amish Healthcare
Lessons for the Rest of US For the Amish, the biggest and most complicated cultural intersection is the modern healthcare system. Amish people often advocate for more freedom in deciding when to go to a hospital, how to get there, and what interventions will be used. In short, the Amish culture of autonomy and thrift may be a way to balance communal support and individual responsibility. |
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Fake Medications
Contributors to the Problem The lack of an international “fake” drug treaty, the lack of laws to pursue the counterfeiters of drugs (with these laws in place for other intellectual property infringements), have now led to the expansion of counterfeiting to all therapeutic fields including expensive cancer medicines. |
