MEDICINE FOR THE 21st CENTURY
we think that medicine in the 21st century will be freed from the hand of the specialist to the hand of the user. it’s social medicine vs elitarian medicine. the mix of local knowledge and global high-tech treatments with universal speed adds a new dimension to the health business, it will revoluzionize this field very quickly and UGI universal health is the first central player to fully understand and experiment into all diferent directions. we think that expecially remote areas like we are in right now can profit massively from google health, remote medicine and new healing methods. Medicine 2.0
one little story i just read yesterday in zurich.. it was „one day in the life of „.. cant remember his name.. he is a radiologist working in zurich during the early/mornings/days in switzerland while ist night-time in the USA. he does live diagnoses on x-rays they send him and then consults with local specialists.. we are talking about trauma patients: knife injuries, gun injuries, accidents, etc.. so these are extremely time-sensitive cases, sometimes seconds rule over life and death. he is one of the leading specialists and works for a company employing 150 radiologists around the world for exaclty this kind of work.. so thousands of hospitals have access to the best radiologists trough the net, exactly the moment they need it the most for a reasonable price.
but thats just a side story.. we are working on the concept of open source medicine and freeware drugs.. free access for everybody, free usage for everybody, the only requirement, if you improve a treatment, a drug or a method you have to release the information and let all others use it for free again. There are different licencing options..
SELF DIAGNOSTICS & SELF TREATMENT
CUTTING OUT THE MIDDLEWOMAN
pharma alone produces illnesses, creates diagnostic tools and delivers solutions (drugs). By using self-diagnostics: doctors, hospitals and partly also labs are cut out of the health-business and the power of healing is put into the hands of the users and of UGI.
Some arguments for selfdiagnostics and selftreatment
- selfdiagnosis for athlets to determine weaknesses and drug treatment (doping)
- remote treatment for rural areas
- no doctor/hospital/lab necessary (cutting out the middleman)
- cost effective (saves money)
- quicker/ faster access to a global knowledge base
- more knowledge, more diverse treatments
- and the list goes on and on...
GOOGLEHEALTH or search-engine/wikihealth
differentialdiagnostics (a process of elimination) can be produced via google. what the hell do i need a doctor for in the first place. Legally i need him/her to issue drug prescriptions, but today i can order anything from online-pharmacies or other sources. many illnesses can be self-diagnosed even more precisely and high-end specialists/doctors can be consulted via videoconference. This enables us to do our anamnesis very precisle. after all, we are the ones who know ourselves the best.
HEALTH 2.0
health 2.0 is the use of a specific set of web tools (blogs, podcasts, tagging, search, wikis, twitter&facebook, websites, forums, etc) by actors in health care including doctors, patients, and scientists, using principles of open source and generation of content by users, and the power of networks in order to personalize health care, collaborate, and promote health education. the key for a development of a culture of medicine 2.0 is education : health digital literacy.
A good example from our personal lifes:
lizvlx used and still uses the baby/children forum (parents.at in german language) for education, paedagogics, health/medicine, experience, food, etc... if your kid is sick, you can consult the forum and you will get instant consulting from various sources, your responsibility is to weigh the replies and to decide which treatment you choose from the available information. But this is proof for handing back the power into the hands of the user and taking it away from the specialist – the specilist can always be consulted if you are unsure or the illness can not be treated by the user himself/herself..