Serious Solutions for Serious Illness

Keep patients in mind first.

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is a $6.4B Fund.

2/3 of people 65+ will have 2 or more chronic illness diagnosed.

What Americans want:

71% want better quality of life over interventions.
Only 30% of care aligns with their preferences.
Last year of life accounts for 25% of Medicare spending.

Majority of people with chronic and late stage illness prefer to stay at home.
Only 1/3 of deaths occur at home.
30% are in ICU in the month preceding death.
25% of seniors visit an ED at least once per year.

People don’t want to be a burden but medical spending cripples families with bankruptcy.
25% of seniors are bankrupted by medical costs

Solving these challenges require a systems approach:

Public Education
Payment changes
Workforce development
Monitoring Systems

What to do:

Remember UX
Move beyond freestanding apps
Adapt to patient’s evolving needs
Connect families and clinicians

Seamless connectivity is needed.

“Put more life in to years and years in to life.”

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Mark Scrimshire
Health & Cloud Technology Consultant

Mark is available for challenging assignments at the intersection of Health and Technology using Big Data, Mobile and Cloud Technologies. If you need help to move, or create, your health applications in the cloud let’s talk.
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Disclosure:
I am currently HHS Entrepreneur-in-Residence and CMS BlueButton Innovator working on an assignment to update BlueButton for Medicare Beneficiaries. http://go.cms.gov/bluebutton

The views expressed on this blog are my own.

I am also a Patient Engagement Advisor, CTO and Co-Founder to Medyear.com. Medyear is a powerful tool that helps you collect, organize and securely share health information, however you want. Manage your own health records today.
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