The proposed system involves several types of users, each with distinct roles and capabilities. This comprehensive network of users and their potential interactions aims to create a community-owned and community-driven care model that empowers individuals, supports healthcare professionals, and fosters innovation in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Health Consumers (Individuals/Patients): These are central to the system. They will have access to a personal health data repository and a dashboard app for managing their health information.
- They can control how their data is used and grant consent for access.
- They will have up-to-date access to the latest medical AI.
- They can receive help from Health Hosts for achieving health goals and accessing medical AI.
- They can utilize chart review services by their own provider or through the system.
- They have a choice on where to keep their data (on device or with a cloud provider).
- They can connect with others and potentially shop for food within the system.
- They can participate in research studies with their consent.
- They can view their overall health trajectory with personalized information.
- They can set disease conditions, upload records, and see their schedule of care.
- They can find help for their goals such as finding caregivers or research options.
- They can submit trouble tickets, file complaints or compliments, and review medical AI tools with their doctor.
- They are intended to have transparency and understanding of their health information.
- The system aims to provide equitable access to the most advanced care.
- Health Hosts: These are trusted, certified third parties who help individuals with their health journey by offering health microservices.
- Family members, neighbors, and groups like teachers could become health hosts.
- They can help consumers achieve their goals and protect them from harm.
- They can create access to medical AI for consumers.
- They will require training, certification, and credentialing.
- They can list their services in a marketplace.
- They can manage their credentials and profile, send secure communications, and manage payments.
- They can help consumers set up devices and may certify that people are set up.
- They can potentially earn income as community health hosts.
- Some services may be offered by roles that are already understood, like Community Health Workers.
- Providers (Physicians, Primary Care Providers, Medical Professionals): These are the healthcare professionals who care for the persons.
- They gain a network of people they can refer to.
- They have a potential candidate funnel for future employees from the Health Host network.
- They can have the opportunity to create income via chart review.
- They receive support for their patients.
- They may experience higher success with risk-based contracts due to more informed and adherent patients.
- They have access to the latest medical AI streamlined for their use.
- Their staff can receive training on the latest advances.
- They have an increased capacity to serve their communities.
- They can bill CMS for services.
- They can discuss AI options with their patients.
- Health Plans: These are the insurance providers.
- They benefit from a healthier member base.
- They gain a network of people who could get credentialed to help the public optimize plan benefits.
- They can measure how plan members are healthier, potentially resulting in lower costs.
- They have more access to help people within their network.
- They can become known as community partners.
- They may pay a fee to optimize their population health.
- They aim to increase market share by helping providers succeed in Value-Based Care and make the most efficient use of benefits.
- Government / Policymakers: These are the regulatory and oversight entities.
- They gain information they cannot get today, including de-identified data at the population level.
- They may see lower costs in the overall system over time.
- They have an infrastructure that delivers equitable access and reduces the growing digital divide.
- They can use more complete data to inform policy and decision making.
- Nonprofits: These are community-based organizations.
- They experience increased capacity to serve their constituents.
- They can reach new constituents through the network.
- They gain a channel to distribute their information widely.
- They can achieve increased impact on their target populations.
- They can access more data for research.
- Caregivers & Families: These are individuals who provide care and support to others.
- They receive support in caring for the sick and seniors, as well as help for themselves.
- They gain access to information and tools to aid in caregiving.
- They may benefit from a new economic model for healthcare that supports caregiving.
- Researchers: These individuals utilize data for medical advancements.
- They can access diverse data sets to make faster progress in research.
- With individual consent, harmonized data can be used to assess bias in large language models, increase representation in drug discovery and clinical trials, and inform public policy.
- Small Businesses (Franchise Model): The nodes in the community network are imagined as small businesses.
- They operate within a franchise model.
- They contribute to an economy where everyone can contribute to community health.
- Developers: These individuals and teams will build applications for the system.
- They can build health apps that integrate with the platform.
- The system aims to provide standard methods for individuals to choose other applications they want to use with their data and for developers to build these apps.
- They need to be able to read data where the customer has it stored using the system’s ontology and provide results that can be displayed on the user’s dashboard.
- They can offer a preferred front end and make money through the platform.
- They can contribute and have their contributions reviewed and uploaded.
- Enterprise Partners & Startups: These companies can participate in the ecosystem.
- They can offer add-on revenue to the community.
- They can pay a flat fee or in shares to get reviewed and listed.
- They can innovate faster by leveraging the platform’s standardization.
- They retain ownership and set their price for their offerings.
- They can solve problems they are good at within the healthcare, environment or affordability space.
- Experts: Individuals with specialized knowledge.
- They can be listed in a registry of experts who can help.
- They can fund an opinion on created artifacts, identifying areas for improvement and success.
- They can contribute content and summaries on specific diseases or conditions.
- Artists: They create content that drives economic value in support of a purpose. They derive economic benefit from their contributions. Their work is protected.