Posted on 05/23/2009 11:40:09 PM PDT by Cindy
"Government Is Funding Technology to Monitor People's Health-Care Behavior by Having Them 'Visit' with Computers"
SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - “Health-care professional time is very, very expensive,” says Robert Friedman of Boston Medical Center. “We’re not going to constrain health-care costs by giving patients absolutely unlimited time with doctors or nurses--they’re too expensive.”
In an effort to increase efficiency in the treatment of certain health-care problems, the federal government has provided Friedman with about $22 million in grants since 1995 to develop technology that can save people actual visits to a doctor's office by allowing them to make "virtual" visits in which a computer speaks to them via a digitalized voice over the telephone.
Friedman has called the technology “Virtual Visit.”
“Telephone-Linked Care (TLC) technology has been developed and applied as an alternative to and a supplement for office visits as a means to deliver ambulatory care,” Friedman wrote in an article titled “The Virtual Visit,” in the November-December 1997 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Friedman currently has six active grants from the National Institutes of Health."
SNIPPET: "Other participants reported more negative reactions, including that “TLC talked down to them, treated them like a child, made them feel guilty, had an unpleasant or ‘disembodied’ voice, was inflexible and did not allow them to get or input information they thought important, was boring and repetitive and did not help them.”"
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Health care profesionals time is expensive, but not as expensive as government studies.
BIG DITTO.
Sorry! Here’s something I left out of my last post:
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Typical of government health care. Real or virtual.
Health Care Big Pharma has great big databases with ‘donor’ and ‘patient’ information. On lots and lots of things, finances, syndromes, diseases, profiles, etc. Often, these databases are complied with federal research funds, the results of which become federal property.
You might even get mailers on your ‘condition’ or ‘can we help’ public class postcards.
After all, they’re from the government and are here to help. It’s all about transparency and ‘service’ to the citizens.
/ end blistering f’n kick ass scathing
Hope when factoring in the cost of health care per the numbers needing it; they consider how many people will wish they were dead, while receiving it. . .and will be; shortly after, if they do.
...because of all the people who CAN'T READ eMedicine.
An expensive solution to the expensive licensing, regulation, and subsidies problem in healthcare. Injustice piled on injustice.
Yes, there are extensive databases of every treatment, prescribed drug therapy, and procedure going back to at least the mid-90s. Private users only have access to patient-anonymized data, but surely the government will not need to honor frivolous concerns about privacy. It’s for the children, after all.
Take two aspirin and check back with the go’vt website next Month.
“On average, 63 percent reported having a positive experience.
“Positive reactions included that TLC was ‘fun’, made them more aware of what they ate or how much exercise they did, gave them helpful information, served as a ‘friend’ or ‘mentor’, and helped them change towards a healthier life style,” Friedman and other researchers wrote.”
This is the group that voted for Zero.
I hate computerized pathways for brokers, banks, help desks, and just about everything else. They are useless and annoying in many cases.
I just found out that my next door neighbor and I have been assigned to the same veterinarian!
This reads like it’s from The Onion.
That makes sense, because it’s government-run health care. Very onion-like.
If they are paying for your health care, they will tell you how to live and monitor your behavior.
Mostly because of all the "free" healthcare mandated by government.
Things like low Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rates, and 100% government funded "nonprofit" providers.
All this is paid for by taxes AND the balance transferred to insurance and cash paying patients...(cost shifting)
These examples are all part of a larger agenda to destroy America's carrier/provider network just as Fannie/Freddie etc destroyed the credit market, and subsequently the economy.
This is exactly what PJ was talking about.
I actually looked if the source for this was from Scrappleface or something by John Semmens of the AZ Conservative.
My father was a family practice doctor for over 50 years and often said that much of his office visits were counseling sessions for patients. He always took time to listen and understand what was going on in their lives. I can’t see that kind of care being provided by a government run health plan.
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