Free Healthcare

Can healthcare without charge and no fundraising exist? Free healthcare is desirable by every patient provided there is no compromise in quality. To be precise, if all the five principles of healthcare can be assured, it is a no-brainer that any patient would prefer to be treated free of cost. But is this possible? How can…

Compassion and Love in Healthcare

Is compassion a dirty word in a world of profit maximizing entrepreneurship? Compassion is a time consuming heart-to-heart contact between the healthcare professional and the patient. This seems antithetical to a fundamental goal of most healthcare institutions – profit maximization. Doctors are often driven to bring revenues to meet expenses. Even the so called non-profit institutions…

Excellent State-of-the-Art Healthcare System

Does the Healthcare System Use State-of-the-Art technology, knowledge, Research, and Clinical Best Practices in Managing Individual and Population Health? There are four variables that characterize state-of-the-art healthcare: technology, knowledge, research and clinical best practices. These variables represent a combination of physical and human capital. Together they provide the tools required to have a significant positive impact on…

Mathematics Behind this Blog

Simple Mathematics Proposed in this Blog This blog proposes a mathematical basis for measuring a country’s proximity to a goal of achieving an ideal healthcare system. For this purpose, this blog proposes a scoring system called the 6P score. In addition, it proposes a multivariate regression that will establish the relative importance of each of the…