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HealthChord Definition

• Health is connected to and affects everything In
  our lives and world affairs.
• HealthChord HDQ creates a helpful effect for any
  individual or population that cares about their
  Health, Safety, and Environment. Its
  complementary to use, its useful for patients and
  doctors, and results in patient satisfaction

Health noun a condition of optimal
well-being. Chord noun a combination of three
or more usually
harmonious tones sounded
simultaneously
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What is The Healthchord Movement?

• Bottom-Up Healthcare Reform, a system change
  idea for the next president and the country
• Individual use of a Health assessment tool that
  is 72 everyday questions that is well tested and
  proven useful
• Thoroughly assess the current health status of
  both individuals and groups in 15 areas of
  disease impact and health skills
• Educates and enables people to take positive
  action in areas when their own health status is
  revealed

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HealthChord HDQ Health and Disease Questionnaire
Phase 1

• What is it?
• Confidential 72 Question HealthChord (HDQ)
• assessment tool Breaks down the health status of
  a an individual, a population, companys insured
  employees and dependants,
• HDQ is based on the Health and Disease Model
  i.e., one that cares for health with the same
  intensity it cares for disease.
• It takes most people 10 minutes to complete.
• Primary care or Family physicians could be
  rewarded accordingly.

See Rewards for usage by Milt Seffert, M.D.
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The HealthChord Health and Disease Questionnaire

• Results
• HDQ inspires a partnership that is mutual and
  creative between the patient and clinician
• HDQ tool facilitates interdependency for both
  individuals and purchasers through a common
  language
• Patient Choice an individual is more informed
  and better able to can take action on the results
• Focus is on both overall holistic health and
  disease impact
• Doctors use it to customize services to fit each
  patient.
• The HDQ software identifies unhealthy lifestyles,
  creating awareness - the first step in behavior
  change

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Manufacturing High Quality
Healthcare
The Laboratory Eagle Medical Excelsior MN.

• Eagle Medical has served 1000s of patients using
  the HealthChord approach since 1972
• Gallop Poll Report 95 patient satisfaction at
  Eagle Medical Clinic (recent survey)
• The Eagle Medical Clinic Team manufactures
  Healthcare of the Highest Quality with the HDQ
  and the 4C2A Formula

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What is the 4C2A Formula?
It is a community-oriented health care
perspective that promotes the common
good.

• It is
• Comprehensive and Continuing,
• Coordinated and Customized
• Accessible and Accountable

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HealthChord Complements CAMA possible new
approach

• We Believe that optimal health and well-being can
  be achieved through CAM (complementary and
  alternative
  medicine) and integrative healthcare
  - implementing
  the best of
  complementary conventional care
• The HealthChord approach
• Enhances the quality of life for patient and
  familes
• Supports the acquisition of information,
  knowledge, and wisdom through intuition
• Integrates new understandings of life through
  the activities of 21st century science and
  research

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Why HealthChord?

• Based in sound principles that reduce costs and
  improve patient satisfaction
• Experience- 22 years of use in Medical practice
• Track record with thousands of patients
• Excellent reputation with 95 patient
  satisfaction
• Speeds up healing of body, mind and spirit

Volentum partnership-Change agents?

• 20 years in corporate leadership training,
  coaching and consulting with 75,000 trained in
  making fast change
• Track record of turnarounds and employee approval
  ratings
• Reputation for reducing conflict and fear,
  improving communications and trust, and getting
  results
• Scalable approaches (personal to massive scale)

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Harmony with Health and Life Management Skills

• Dr. Milton Seiffert, M.D.
• The maturation of this technology dates back to
  Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1950s the Eagle
  Medical practice began using this approach in
  1972. The concepts of the life management skills
  program are simple, understandable and
  appropriate even for children as young as eight
  years of age.
• In short, this programs most important feature
  is its documented capacity to change (health)
  behavior. It has shortened in-patient hospital
  length of stay, reduced domestic violence,
  improved marriages, fostered (the) practice of
  staff interdependence, increased seat belt usage
  also of great significance is the absence of
  suicides of patients in the program since its
  inception in 1972. Over and over, this technology
  has helped people with chronic disease to modify
  their behavior, as well as those with compulsive
  disorders. The Eagle Medical practice has found
  that this approach can be used to treat the
  emotional component of almost any medical
  practice problem, e.g., medical illness, surgical
  illness, chronic pain, or autoimmune disorders.

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The HealthChord Movement Phase 2

• There are various views of the U.S. healthcare
  system
• AARP, Mayo Clinic, the Institute of Medicine just
  to name a few
• All have a part of the truth but provide a
  picture that is incomplete. All say change is THE
  priority
• Articles found at www.healthchord.info
  - Click on Primary Care

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The HealthChord Movement

• Crossing the Quality Chasm to better healthcare
  from the Institute of Medicine focuses broadly on
  how the U.S. healthcare system can be reinvented
  using a Primary care approach.

• Even though the healthcare system as a whole is
  in huge disrepair, we also believe is is possible
  to create a safe and effective system.
• In this we agree with the Institute of Medicine,
  Mayo and AARP

However, it will require proven methodologies to
speed the transformation of the current chaos
into a system that works well for all.
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The HealthChord Movement

• The system and process must begin at the
  local level and must
  involve many parties,
  both groups and individuals.
• Patient and Doctor having open and honest,
  quality dialogues that get quality results.
• HealthChord would unite the principal
  stakeholders, I.e. doctors, patients and
  purchasers, as each of these would benefit from
  higher health status

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Deming on the System

• Edwards Deming on results
• - the system accounts for 80
• - individuals account for 20
• When problems in production occur, it is useful
  to examine the system first.

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Primary Care Costs Less

• Worldwide there are disparities and inequities
  in healthcare
  (including in the United States).
• The biggest factor for disparities is NOT poor
  and developing
  countries but rather the system
• Numerous studies show that a Primary Care focused
  healthcare system produces better health outcomes
  and costs 30 less
• Primary Care is anchored in a Partnership that
  believes
• - good healthcare outcomes requires a good
  clinician/patient relationship
• - A good relationship requires mutual
  negotiations and,
• - Successful negotiations require a common
  language
• See
  Negotiation Medicine

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Accessible

• It is organized to provide medical care around
  the clock, seven days of the week.
• It has an Accessible governing body - the
  Patient Advisory Council (PAC), active since
  1974. The PAC is voluntary for both practice
  staff and patient group. Its purpose is to
• resolve complaints (Services Improvement)
• develop health policy
  
  create community education
  forums and
  provide
  patient-to-patient services.
• be helpful and never harmful

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Accountable
Practice Accountability - By virtue of its
governing body, the patient advisory council
(PAC) makes resolving patient concerns or
complaints it most important act of
accountability Patients Accountability -
promoting greater patient responsibility for
health through self-management concepts and
techniques that always stay within the context of
a strong doctor/patient partnership.

• Patients gain responsibility through exercising
  individual choices.
• A greater sense of control over health, promotes
  self-initiated preventative care, more optimism
  about the efficacy of early treatment, and
  greater actual and perceived health.
• The belief that they can positively affect their
  own health encourages people to behave in more
  positive ways with gratifying health results.
• The doctors get patients who are better partners
  and this improves the outcomes.

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Comprehensive and Continuing

• Integrates the care of patients biomedical and
  psychosocial needs and
  avoids the
  fragmentation of mind-body dualism.
• Treats mental, emotional, social and spiritual
  health right
  within the practice setting, reducing
  the need for
  additional consults.
• Employs a health educator with the title, Health
  Coordinator. Note Patients rate the role of the
  health coordinator highly
• Helps patients develop effective life management
  skills especially in the area of stress
  management.
• HDQ results are often used as a first line to
  treatment, reducing or avoiding the need for more
  expensive technology or mood-alerting medications.

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Coordinated and Customized
Once Eagle Medical understands the patients
strengths and needs, clinic caregivers rely on
teamwork and interdependence to meet patient
goals and to provide individualized care.

• Customized care via the Health and Disease
  Questionnaire (HDQ), which Measures both
  strengths and risks of patients in the areas of
  physical, mental, social, emotional, and
  spiritual health.
• Confidential HIPPA sanctioned and Secured
  Questionnaires are completed online.
• Results are received within two minutes, real
  time, which allows the doctor to
  encourage the patient to begin
  positive health behavior change.

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Coordinated and Customized

• Promotes an interdependent team approach between
  and among providers.
• Allows more providers to participate effectively
  in safe and effective resolution of complex
  patient problems.
• The Primary Care physician serves as the team
  evaluator, helping the team hone diagnoses,
  re-diagnose, and seek new treatments as well as
  greater continuity of care.
• This team approach allows for early intervention
  and treatment of patients at a level in the
  system that is most personal, most appropriate,
  and least costly.

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