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A Hierarchically Cooptimized Plan for the Enhanced Health Care System of the Year 2000

By Otto H. Schmitt

January 15, 1989

Given adequate diligence and dedication, we should be able by the Millennial year 2000 to report as “in operation” a Systems Reengineered Plan incorporating the following advances.

1) Sufficient professional security and tolerance to allow the, now Taboo and neglected, prime features of Quality of Life, Mind, Spirit and Soul to be added to our currently accepted Body and Brain functions; to allow “Consciousness”, at its several levels, to become a regular part of Health Care Procedures.

2) A rudimentary insight into rules of advanced Consciousness “field theory” to allow us to investigate usefully, as fundamentals of Life Communication, what are now regarded as “paranormal”.

3) The rapid emergence of an acknowledged “new” Science and Technology based on Life itself “Biomimetic Science and Technology” and its important Subset incorporating the Santosha Index understanding of the Quality of Life at the Individual, the Family or “Group” level, and at the Community Level, possibly going to the Global level.

At the operational level this System Plan must offer:

4) An inflation adjusted decrease of 50% in the annual cost of our Health Care Delivery system and its services, with at least 50% improved performance and perceived results.

5) A whole life medical history card in each person's possession giving a cursive life trajectory oriented, detailed personal medical and life progress history, easily updateable (but not deletable), inexpensive, robust, and structured to allow matching with similar histories in a large national data bank for ergodically adjusted prognosis and recommendations.

6) Public and Professional understanding of our intellectual progression from the “Homeostatic” view of self-regulation, where we fix whatever is wrong, as well and as long as we can easily manage, and then discard ‘the patient diplomatically, to the Homeodynamic view of self regulation where, through adjustment to the changing Vicissitude of Life, we gain some extension of rewarding Life, to the new “enlightened” view of technically, pharmacologically and mentally reprogrammed life style, and consciously perceived reality, toward the goal of multifaceted and enhanced optimized life quality.

7) Identification, education and establishment of necessary “new and different” health care professionals fitting the new system to avid the huge cost and liability of using a “one size fits all” physician image, in an automation cobbled up adaptation of the classical, simplistic individual patient-physician relationship.

8) A welcomed development and move into the home, as a family friend or pet companion, of the Modularly organized, individually parameterized, health care computer, with instructional prompting, advice resources, and competence to participate in diagnostic, monitoring, training, therapeutic, and even rehabilitative procedures, in the home environment, but compatible with HMO or other traditional modes of care, and adapted for Quality of Life interpretations.

9) A full National Strand Epidemiology Library data base from which to extract ergodically adapted Medical and Quality of Life records for empirical or theory-based treatment and life style recommendation plans.

10) A good repertoire of Quality of Life components organized hierarchically on at least the three primary levels of Consciousness a) ordinary perceptive consciousness “projection screen of reality” type, b) the multlbranch subconscious and c) at least the first level of super consciousness.

11) National awareness and eagerness to accept the possibility of being offered personally adapted life plans adjusted for individual strengths, weaknesses and eccentricities, with a choice, readapt able at any time, of several comprehensive available attractive, fulfilling, and otherwise rewarding “Life Plans” readily alterable utilizing the “Three Quadrature” insight into appreciation of time series events including the human life career.

12) Well planned “Carrot and Stick” strategies for R & D, marketing, education and P.R. to persuade legislators, academic researchers and educators, Biomedical devices and service suppliers, among others, to find rewards and avoid penalties by cooperating with this overall plan or improving and extending it.