Concierge some of the what is the word im looking for if you have cancer, catastrophic injuries, diabetes, lgbtq health, opioid use, pain management, all of those things are triggers for us to outreach to a member. And then on july 1st of this year, we also launched an enhanced program that is a digital experience for members. It is individualized based on their health care needs. I didnt put that information on here, but thought i would offer it up. And that is designed to treat the whole member and give them an individualized health and wellness pass. Its based on, if i log into the program or access it from my phone, and i put in my scores and my Blood Pressure and things like that, it will help and then any other identifying factors for a health care condition, it will create an individualized health care and wellness path for that member and give them access to several different applications that are housed on our app, so they can be successful in their wellness journey. Thats it.
Apple kicked the door open in terms of Patient Engagement and patient control of their own information with the Apple Health Records. What they did, by using emerging and new standards, they made it so that the patient has control of all their information that they get through the portals, which is independent or agnostic of the platform, it is being used in the care setting, so if you are being seen at dignity at ucsf and stanford and sutter and kaiser and you are enrolled in all their portals, as well as independent practitioners who may be using a variety of other systems, and you have their portal, and their systems are subscribed or have an a. P. I. Enabled, this gets pushed to Apple Health Records and on your phone, on your smart device in an encrypted manner and secure manner, the patient has control over their information. Im spending a lot of time on this, but the reason that this is important is his Large Tech Companies have engaged in the healthcare business or tried to get
[inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she is asked me too proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure we hear from each of you and we want the senators to has questions of each of you. So patty should arrive at about ten. When she comes we will interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago doctor brent james from the National Academy testify before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic up to one half of the American People spend on healthcare may be unnecessary. Let me repeat that, up to half of the 3. 5 trillion, the United States collectively spent on healthcare in 2017 was unnecessary according to doctor james and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. That is 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we spen
What happens to the information. The other example i have is working going to a Dignity Health cancer survivor opportunity, and it was one of these special concierge events, and believe it or not, it was at the hospital, and it was a gong event. These people came from all around california. They set up these gongs, cancer survivors all laid down, covered in blank kicks, et cetera et cetera, and they gong for 40 minutes and it was amazing. So that was a really wonderful thing, but it took me 20 phone calls and just actually showing up to get through so that its not a seamless kind of thing. When i went through it, it was dark, and i was take off your shoes, and i was afraid i was going to trip myself finding my way through. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else . Thank you for that feedback. I think it is very helpful to see whats really happening. You can see a lot on paper, but when people actually experience it, it is more important. Thank you. Anybody else for this item . Seen none see
As well as independent practitioners who may be using a variety of other systems, and you have their portal, and their systems are subscribed or have an a. P. I. Enabled, this gets pushed to Apple Health Records and on your phone, on your smart device in an encrypted manner and secure manner, the patient has control over their information. Im spending a lot of time on this, but the reason that this is important is his Large Tech Companies have engaged in the healthcare business or tried to get into the 48 many times over the last 25 years, in particular , with the bend on patient records. The reason they failed is because they say it is the patient record, we will put it in our system, on our servers. This is not on apple servers, this is the patient controlling their own information. I heard a great comment about navigating through kaisers site and going through questionnaire, having to answer your own data, but this does is not unlike if you have had Google Photos or any other app in