Introduction
This article describes a health initiative for health insurance companies offering Part C Medical Medicare health insurance programs. Although there are (as of 2014) 66,800,000 plus Americans for Medicare (53.8 million of whom are aged - the rest qualify as disabled), only 16.2 million participants have Medicare Advantage. Thus, this segment is an attractive test group for the initiative, which over time may be available to all Medicare recipients and, historically, all Americans.
The proposed initiative begins with the expansion of data that will be collected and digitized for members of the Advantage plan. Extended data will be devoted to exercises and other activities. This initiative will expand and improve the prevention offerings currently used in Advantage primary care programs. Existing efforts are almost completely inexpedient, nonpositive, not very amusing, and require almost nothing from patients associated with steps to promote their own well-being. Primary medicine is passive, inactive with an emphasis on risk reduction. Currently, visits to primary health care are being consumed through disease / horror measures, which are sometimes supplemented by traditional health education brochures, etc.
In short, there are few or no ZZZ - zing, zest, and zizzle in Advantage programs. (“Zizzle” is my neologism for improved “hiss”, but with the addition of the letter “z” to include a cool acronym)!
ZZZ will be under the control of medical planners, despite the fact that doctors currently have limited time, knowledge or, in many cases, commitment to exercise and fitness - their own or their doctors. However, they will cover ZZZ because it will make them better doctors, improve the patient's health and make the work more interesting. Tomorrowmore, patients who once knew about ZZZ-undertakings and were engaged in them, will be happier as well as healthier.
The ZZZ model will receive patients on board with active participation, praise and positive focus. This will provide all patients with real hope for a better, more efficient way to live. It will include the transfer of responsibility for the quality of life from the medical system or doctor to each patient. This transition, unfortunately, is necessary. Believe it or not, some descriptions of health insurance health programs still use the terrible phrase "preventive health." For reference, no one, especially a health care provider, should strive to prevent health! The use of this ill-conceived phrase indicates a lack of thinking in terms of health and life enrichment, and its use should be considered a criminal offense, followed by a moment of shame, and then rehabilitation by the attacker. Without contact with the program ZZZ this period will not be heard again.
Elements of the ZZZ Wellness Program
ZZZ initiatives will be expressed in optimistic positive tones that highlight the benefits and benefits of the program for doctors and patients. When creating a case for ZZZ, it would be wise to minimize criticism of the bad reputation of the health and fitness industry historically. This is despite the fact that the medical system ignored many elements of genuine physical and mental well-being, cultural support, meaning and purpose. This will change when programming ZZZ.
Instead of measuring and monitoring risk, elements of the ZZZ will assess the level of achievable benefits. A computerized data collection for all patients will give health workers a complete picture of exercise habits. After consulting with patients, physicians will encourage specific exercises and goals and goals for a healthy lifestyle during the 3-month, six-month and one-year periods. Monitoring, evaluation and, if necessary, festive rituals will be conducted at each stage.
Initial steps for the implementation of ZZZ
* Involve the participation of the medical community. Note the areas of opportunity, intervention, and programming in the three phases of ZZZ.
* Attract specialists to work with patients and primary care physicians. The ZZZ program is managed and connected not only with primary care physicians, but also with available wellness specialists (nurses, etc.) and fitness specialists.
* Instead of prescriptions, medical staff will insist that short-term and long-term goals be part of individual ZZZ wellness plans. They should be carried out by individual patients in collaboration with the staff of the resource of the wellness center.
* Aerobic fitness tests will be used to assess strength and flexibility, leveling and balance. There will no longer be standard medical examinations and routine office visits that do not see full body health, fitness and well-being.
* Emphasize the integration of wellness elements with smart technologies. The ZZZ model attracts technical devices (such as exercise apps, smart watches, iPhone, Bluetooth and cloud storage) to collect and transfer computer data to medical managers. This data is integrated with traditional medical devices (blood pressure devices, digital scales, blood glucose monitors, etc.) to create comprehensive images of patients' health at various points along the way.
* A health oriented website will be created and promoted to continue learning. Sites will be used by staff as resources for patients (for example, it will feature articles on real areas of health skills, as well as common prevention topics). The site will be updated with fresh information daily, partly in response to the interests shown by ZZZ participants in Advantage primary health care.
Doctors will use these tools at the beginning and in all subsequent meetings with patients, many of whom, if not most of them, will initially be overweight, discouraged, stress-resistant and do not have pharmacological coping skills.
Summary
With Medicare physicians associated with an individual exercise history, the interaction between the patient and the provider will be more adapted to the importance of lifestyle, which is not the case now. ZZZ will represent historical progress and increase the likelihood that caregivers will monitor signs and symptoms of fitness, good diet and personal development and become more cautious about destructive norms, lack of meaning in life and the value of finding added value from work,
With such a connection, symptoms, such as metabolic dysfunction, will not be signals for automatic prescription of drugs to lower high blood pressure or cholesterol, but rather as indicators for specific lifestyle initiatives. Doctors will participate with other members of the office team (nurses and various specialists in boarding schools of lifestyle) for exercises and related “recipes”.
As part of the ZZZ program, all health care practitioners will have the tools, procedures, and information necessary to measure and monitor lifestyle, as well as training, wisdom, and wisdom to use non-drug approaches to problem solving. Most importantly, attention will be focused on turning patients away from mediocrity of housing from diseases and problems. The ZZZ shift will instead direct its energy towards health and the enrichment of life.
The ZZZ program will give a new meaning to the term “recipe”. Instead of getting permission to get the drug from the pharmacy, a follow-up patient / doctor note will become more expensive for zing, zest and zizzle from life. The affirmative goal will be to create and implement a simple wellness plan. This will be based on patients with the help of a ZZZ group of doctors. It will culminate with improved forms of exercise and fitness results, as well as new initiatives to regulate diet and attention to personal development. All of this will be checked by the health insurance provider and the patient on an annual basis.
The World Health Organization has shown that human life has more than halved over the course of the 20th century, mainly due to the victory of science over disease, in particular diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, polio, tetanus, typhoid and smallpox. Perhaps a similar gain can be achieved during the 21st century. This will also be provided by science, but will focus not only on eradicating and combating infectious diseases, but also on improving the quality of life and longevity. This can be caused by a sharp reduction in the incidence of elections, that is, lifestyle and environmental "contagion" transmitted by cultures that make uninformed, destructive behavior seeming normal and comfortable. Warnings against such self-service models will never be as effective as opportunities to experience the liberating power of personal achievement. Improved energy levels, better looks and an increased sense of well-being, increasingly caused by exercise, a good diet, effective stress management and other skills taught in ZZZ-like endeavors, will follow primary health care, which focuses on exercise, responsibility, abundance and joy of arrogance.
Such a shift will be the ultimate form of benefits-based health insurance programs, initially for a relatively small group of people receiving Medicare, and sometimes for all American people.
Be healthy, look on the bright side and always insist on a good conversation about wellness therapy with your own doctor.
