Frustrated that you can’t reduce your health insurance costs? that old employees are quitting and recruiting new ones is hard? There is a simple, inexpensive solution to both problems and it’s available today. It’s called MedKaz®. You should offer it as a wellness benefit to your employees — the sooner the better! When you embrace…
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One of the biggest personal challenges seniors face is inadequate healthcare. This becomes Medicare’s problem, too, when their health insurance costs skyrocket. An Important New Medicare Benefit There finally is one benefit Medicare can offer that solves this problem — for seniors and Medicare. It’s called MedKaz®. It is self-financing, simple, inexpensive, very easy to…
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A Hypothetical Story You’re driving to your office. You’ve got a busy day and many appointments. To your surprise, a “Road Closed” sign appears in front of you. You ask yourself: Should I take the detour, or return home? Clearly, the detour may make you late but you’ll still be able to conduct business that…
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MedKaz is the “Silver Bullet” care providers have been seeking for years to improve healthcare quality and reduce its cost. It is a unique, patented, patient-owned portable personal health record. It contains copies of a patient’s records from all his/her providers. Providers use it alongside their electronic health record (EHR) as a source of information,…
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As a senior executive in your company, are you frustrated that your health insurance costs keep going up and you can’t do anything about it? I suspect you are, and it doesn’t feel good. It’s like having the proverbial tiger by the tail! What’s Wrong You have no control over when your employees or their…
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Numerous studies have shown that the United States spends more than twice the average cost per capita on healthcare than do other wealthy nations, and gets decidedly poorer outcomes. These poor results are driven in large part by a crisis in our healthcare system that seriously limits our doctors’ ability to treat us properly when…
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Over the past 40 years, one senior citizen — we’ll call him Jack — has seen literally dozens of physicians in more than 10 practices and hospitals, six cities, three states. Using their systems, none could access all his records when they needed to understand his issues or coordinate his care. The result? They made some costly mistakes, sometimes hurt…
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If you are healthy and rarely see a doctor, the question “Who coordinates your medical care?” probably doesn’t appear on your radar. But when you get sick, especially with one or more chronic illnesses, it becomes a major concern and source of great frustration because the answer for most of us is “no one!” Not our primary care physician. Not our specialists. Not our care givers, family members, or friends. No one!!
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Strategically, MedKaz® is unique. It differs from all other approaches to medical-record sharing and coordination. Its business model is equally unique. MedKaz gives patients control of all their records from all their providers, and the system to manage them, in one place — on a MedKaz mini drive they carry with their house and car…
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By MERLE BUSHKIN With all due respect to the good intentions of Congress, HHS, CMS, ONC and their dedicated advisors, they are pursuing — and for years have pursued — the wrong approach to achieve medical record interoperability. Endless studies, reports and anecdotal evidence conclude that trying to standardize the way medical records are…
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