If you haven’t cruised the ChangeNow4Health Innovation xChange already, I really encourage you to do so. I’d also encourage to login, so you can post comments, or send a message to the Innovator, and more.

Here’s brief excerpts from ideas submitted the past couple of weeks, that selected the category of Simplifying the Business of Health Care (there are a number of additional submissions under the other available categories):

Financing Healthcare: A New 3 Tiered System Idea

http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas/0114

Carol states “my inspiration comes from an article I read a year or two ago in the Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, concerning some ideas of John Edwards and also information I obtained in a medical ethics class.” She offers a detailed proposal categorized by Tiers: involving: First Tier: Financing; Second Tier: Administration by Current Private Insurance Companies; and Third Tier: Additional Insurance

Shared care during hospitalizations stays

http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas/0113

Michael suggests that health care organizations “allow family members to provide bedside care (non medication administration) to family members hospitalized.”

Reorganizing the health care industry

http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas/0112

Linda opines “access to health care in the US should not be a privilege but a right.  In order to accomplish this, the principle variable to begin the process is the resolving the dilemma of funding such a venture.”  She offers her suggestions in a ten point plan.

OpenID for Physician

http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas/0109

Shabbir writes “The idea is to create a single openID platform that centralizes the user credentials for physicians nationwide.  This would rapidly increase the adoption of using different web tools from the physician community without having register with 10 different Payor websites in a market.”

Follow up with prepaid vouchers

http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas/0108

Kay recommends “when someone who cannot afford healthcare insurance is diagnosed and given initial treatment for a chronic condition, they should be issued with a set of prepaid vouchers for their follow up appointments to ensure they are receiving appropriate care.”

Epistemological Foundation for Healthcare Reform

http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas/0107

Benjamin provides a detailed discussion, which he categorizes into three components:

• “Problem 1: Colossal Hubris of the Individual” to which he concludes – “*Solution 1: Life is terminal. Drop an anchor in eternity and deal with it!” 
• “Problem 2: Unmitigated Gall of the Physician” to which he concludes – “*Solution 2a: Physicians must make patient autonomy a priority; *Solution 2b: Physicians must leverage technology to transfer tacit knowledge to explicit rules, and crowd-source these rules to determine efficacy; *Solution 2c: Extenders must be employed more widely to implement these rules and make efficient the delivery of quality and economical care.”
• “Problem 3: Mammonistic Temerity of the Insurer” to which he concludes – “*Solution 3a: Harnessing the power of rules-based medicine, insurers must become the evangelists and coordinators of quality care; *Solution 3b: Insurers must foster a new kind of network, the crowd-sourced care network and build pathways from specialist to self-care; *Solution 3c: Insurers must abandon P4P until real outcomes (not process) metrics are being collected from defined (repeatable) treatments.”

Affordable Healthcare model for EVERYONE!!

http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas/0106

Julia suggests “How about we have group plans state by state, based on the Medicare system, and individuals pay into Health Savings ... driving consumerism. [Ridding our Medicaid costs of emergency rooms visits for colds that could have seen a doctor ... that hog up the emergency rooms with NON-emergency visits.] Instead, Medicaid individuals would have a set amount to use in consumer smart way ...”

Money Matters or Health Matters

http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas/0105

Among Marilyn’s suggestions, she offers “There should be two different waiting rooms for all doctors' offices, not just some of the pediatrics, but all doctors; one that is for the sick and one that is for well patient care….I know that the government has a lot of money sitting there waiting to be used for grants and sometimes all of it is not used.  Whatever is left over should be applied to our healthcare for the following year.”

Simplifying

http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas/0103

Stephanie feels that “the business is so busy with legalese most people don't know what is what. Contracts should be easier to read.”

That’s just the submissions during the past couple of weeks that were listed under the Simplifying the Business of Health Care category. There’s plenty more to check out, including the detailed submissions for each of the above, so do take a trip over to the Innovation xChange, and perhaps you could get an inspiration to submit your own innovation idea.