Michael Moore Says We Are Driving Him Crazy – By Doing Nothing

After reading this article and being a healthcare IT blogger, I think I can relate to this. The problem comes right back to education and getting to the root of where reform needs to take place and how. Myself, I have pretty much given up on my Congress members as they are too so very distracted and lack the means to educationally figure out where we need to go with this. I chat with other IT folks on the internet, and we have a complete agreement in this area all the way around.

I keep this big fat word “Algorithms” center stage here to try and help educate those on where all these decisions come from. I try too, but again when individuals prefer to simply be entertained and leave out any potential learning processes, it is difficult. I go between many different parts of healthcare on this blog and there are those who want to be informed patients, a good thing, and those doctors who only have a fax machine that occasionally stop by, a scary thing from the IT World. Many of the informed patients though seem to forget about the technology side with devices though or miss it along the way, or maybe forget about the payer side, unless a personal experience creates an awakening. Everything sounds wonderful until it enters the real world of utilization and practice.

I talk about genomics, new medical devices, devices that report data, risk management or health insurance and how they use it to maximize profits, so again there’s a lot to all of this reform business and at times my brain hurts. Long and short of it though is that if we shut down to learning and only focus on entertaining ourselves, we will fall behind even further. There’s a lot out there too and it is easy to get confused as to what and who to believe as well. I think I somewhat share what Michael Moore is feeling too, nobody wants to learn and read, and thus we have flourishes of emotion that don’t accomplish anything and people continue to be denied healthcare, don’t practice any healthier lifestyles and we are still stuck at ground zero with a Congress that is still somewhat living in the 70s that I believe shares some of the same responsibility.

As far as profits and money, it’s a code war. Most of the decision making processes are done with algorithms and computers today until things elevate to a higher level when a human does intervene. Congress doesn’t even understand “high frequency” healthcare, only perhaps budget making processes from the past.

Would someone explain data aggregation and “high frequency ...

I wonder how Wendell Potter feels these days too, he’s a great guy who took some real steps forward to help and acknowledge what goes on from the insurance side of things, and has distraction and entertainment now subsided from taking advantage of the knowledge he has shared with us?

Wendell potter knows algorithms – if you don't understand please ...

We are distracted with entertaining ourselves perhaps…

Is Distraction Getting in the Way of HealthCare ...

Anyway, in short I guess I am feeling a bit the same, we have no role models to follow either. We do though have a lot of Magpies, who like to talk and sometimes offer some great information, but themselves don’t participate and it’s an attitude of “its for those guys over there” that hinders their words of wisdom as they are not active participants and contributors themselves. To bring about education of the US public, we need mentors that are also participants, I think that is why this blog still exists come to think of it. When I stop being a participant, it’s time to quit blogging and let the Magpies prevail. BD

LOS ANGELES — Michael Moore is adding someone new to the list of people who drive him crazy.

You.

You know who you are. You saw Bowling for Columbine and didn't bother entering the gun control debate. You saw Sicko and didn't write your legislator. You watched Fahrenheit 9/11 and didn't vote.

"He wants us to address health care, or the deficit, and frankly, people already feel overwhelmed and would rather be entertained," Levine says. "He comes in and says, quite compellingly, that this house is pretty dirty. But a lot of people are saying they'll clean it tomorrow —American Idol is on tonight."