What's going on with the health alliance? No doubt you've heard about the health alliance between USF and the Villages. They say the purpose is to make Villagers healthier. But even before the first lecture was given, they started calling TV "America's Healthiest Hometown". If we're already America's healthiest hometown, I think we should call off the alliance and quit while we're ahead.
The biggest change the alliance wants to make is to eliminate medical records on paper. With this plan, your doctors will type everything about you into a computer. Then you and all of your doctors will have easy access to your records. I think we may be on to something. As a matter of fact, while we're at it, we should get a computer diagnosis and eliminate doctors too (I understand that software has already been designed for this purpose). So what if we occasionally get a wrong diagnosis. How would that be any different than what we're getting now?
The problem with the health-alliance project is that it has set its sights too low. We should aim to be The World's Healthiest Hometown! Being America's Healthiest Hometown is way too easy. But I suppose we're getting the best that federal grant money can buy.
I just thought I would break the ice with this post and see if anyone else has any comments on this subject.
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