Our Strategies

1. Create information-rich health savings accounts to both incentivize and empower the individual.
2. Create secure electronic health records with expert systems to maximize accuracy, minimize errors, reduce inefficiencies and improve care.
3. Develop a new system of health justice.
4. Create a buyers’ market for pharmaceuticals by building a transparent system for individuals, doctors, and pharmacists of price and efficacy information about prescription drugs and medically appropriate over-the-counter drugs. The system would have an open formulary with an “after-pay” rather than a co-pay (a “Travelocity” for drug purchasing).
5. Create a system and culture of rapid adoption of solutions that result in better outcomes at lower cost for both the public and private sector.
6. Establish an intellectually credible, accurate system for capturing the cost and benefits of better solutions, better technologies and better outcomes in order to create a technically correct model of return on investment for solutions resulting in better outcomes at lower cost.
7. Develop a real-time continuous research database and discover-develop-deliver ability (turning cancer into a chronic disease by 2015 and eliminating preventable complications from diabetes by 2015).
8. Knit together these electronic systems into a virtual public health network for health protection against natural outbreaks and a bioshield against deliberate biological attack.
9. By implementing the first eight strategies, turn health and healthcare from a problem into an opportunity, making it the leading creator of high-value jobs and foreign exchange earning in American society (including as a first step the creation of an undersecretary of commerce for health).