our own system
Hi there, I'm Drew Weilage and I'm working to make healthcare better for patients.
This is a blog with links to healthcare goings on, trends, and uncategorized interestingness as well as attempts to filter my own healthcare thinking through essay.
I am greatly aware of my idealistic, naive even, views on a number of topics. But frankly, I think healthcare is in dire need of more of the "what's possible/what could be" type of thinking. I'm greatly protective of my unabashed idealism but always open to reason and discourse about any of it.
This is round two of my blogging life, the first being archived here.
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Deeper Thoughts
- Health is a Platform
- Health is Co-Created
- Make Healthcare Awesome
- Don't Call It Quality
- Healthcare Needs Hackers
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The And is Everything
The word “and” is used as a link between two statements.
What better statement for a healthcare system to make than to add an and to its name?
Seventy-five percent of the United States annual healthcare spend goes toward the treatment of chronic disease. Three-fourths!
As of today, “approximately 412,857 people have died from chronic disease this year.”
Healthcare is beginning (a monotonously slow) transition toward realizing healthcare is more about health than it is about care. Payment mechanisms slow the progress.
It is incumbent upon today’s providers to acknowledge the reality that the patient not only needs care, but assistance with health.
New name, evolving approach, right focus: Sacred Heart Health and Care System.
The and is everything.
