The new book deals on predictive analytic modelling, decision making, innovations, and precision medicine necessary to correct the broken healthcare delivery system

HEALTHCARE’s Out Sick hits shelves today, Tuesday, February 12 across the country. It analyses and explains the history of development of medical care throughout the centuries, and importantly provides a new “Framework” for delivering healthcare.  The framework is a “Paradigm Shift”, an “About-Face”, a “disruption”, a “turned upside-down”, an “Innovative”  model that is needed to accomplish three things: (1)  Provide efficient and accurate healthcare delivery, (2) gets costs down to appropriate levels of the percentage of the GNP, and (3) have complete transparency. Other major industrialized nations do this: the United States is strikingly absent from this list.

Here in the book, for the first time, Miner et al. assemble a full argument that most EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) is based on “flawed statistics” – “flawed studies”.  The remedy to this is full acceptance of modern “Predictive Analytics” which can make accurate predictions for both diagnosis and treatment outcomes for the individual person. This paradigm shift is absolutely necessary to bring about “True Personalised Medicine”, which includes “Person-Centred” and “Person-Directed care.

“America is resistance to change: … the vested interests are doing well in healthcare now!!! ………the patient must return to being at the centre of all these efforts—in other words, the patient is the CEO of their diagnosis and treatments, and payers and providers must return to being servants of the patients ……..Many medical doctors, even in the younger generation, who are friends of the authors and also express the issues presented in this book, will say, “But, we just cannot do it and be as cost-effective as some of these other industrial nations …. Because our society is ‘so much more complicated’….” ……… To which we authors say: “Rubbish.” This is just a push back and reflects attitudes and indoctrination in medical school and residency training indicating that they do not want to embrace the changes needed. The changes can be made— it is a matter of attitude change first before the mechanics of change can be applied. “, say the authors in Chapter 7 of the book.

There is a “Book within the Book”:    “Ask Dr Dean” –  answers questions to Dr Dean that are intermingled among the main text of the book, and provide a doctor’s answers to questions many patients have BUT do not have time to discuss during their doctor’s visits.  Patients – and the Public in general – should find this part of the book very useful.

The authors emphasise that there are four things absolutely essential to a successful re-engineering of healthcare, namely Interoperability; Predictive data analytics; Transparency and Costs.

The book emphasises that all parties must step up and get involved to bring about the change needed.  This includes providers and payers who must change their thinking and mode-of-operation to become true servants of the patients (consumers), and patients who must assume more responsibility and become the directors of their own healthcare.

Healthcare’s Out Sick is available to order via: www.routledge.com/ 9781138581098

For more information and to request a review copy please contact: rebecca.shand@tandf.co.uk

– Feb. 12, 2019 @ 15:15 GMT |