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International Network - March 04, 2024

Based on the WHO definition that "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity", how can we reduce it to a digital dimension?

   

The human being being a complex micro-universe, how can we want to summarize it in an electronic patient file (EPR)?

In reality, it is not primarily a question of better patient care but digital technology has a key role to play in limiting the increase in healthcare costs1. Consequently, this is the asset on which the Confederation is banking: An additional 30 million is on the table.2. Thus, the government wants to bring in the DEP by force while “it never ceases to disappoint. The population shuns it (only 30 people had taken the plunge by the end of 000) and health professionals sharply criticize it.” Instead of studying the causes of this disinterest, Parliament wants to intervene powerfully, obsessed with the “digitalization of health” when in reality it is a question of containing the costs of compulsory health insurance.

There is therefore a clear imbalance in the balance between the government driven by a political-economic-legal strategy and the population supported by health professionals.

It is striking to note that humans and caregivers are concerned with the living process of the body while managers focus on financial dynamics. There seems to be a gap between the two, even if there are footbridges that cross the gap somewhat.

The first person concerned by his state of health is the individual (in the sense of being undivided). He is the first to be affected by what he experiences. Instead of supporting it to keep its sovereignty over itself as best as possible, the politico-assecurological system wants to take everything in hand according to criteria which are based on scientific elements, limited extracts from a global scientific vision.

“In the future, all healthcare professionals will have to use the electronic patient record, both in hospitals and in doctor's offices or pharmacies.”

A very detailed 59-page report was provided by the Council of State of the Canton of Neuchâtel already in 2017. I note (p.42) the chapter concerning the consequences on staff and its implementation budget (3 millions) which clearly illustrates its complexity on several levels. The Council of State will be able to meet the requirements of the LDEP in the short term but also to guarantee the usefulness and use of e-health (here is another term that leaves one wondering) in general, of the DEP in the long term , and therefore to ensure the success of the approach he initiated, in terms of public health, but also financial. Otherwise, the risks of failure are significant and their consequences are potentially serious.3

What do you think of the additional sum of 30 million? A reflection comes to us from a parliamentarian assessing the health of the DEP in a very relevant way: “He believes that the DEP is a patient in intensive care who will be given an infusion of 30 million while we still do not know what he suffers from.

What are they based on to estimate the success of the approach in terms of public health?

We have just experienced 3 years of covidemia where the current assessments show to what extent the health measures imposed by the government have had harmful consequences on several levels, whether following confinement, PCR tests, wearing a mask and injections. genes presented as more vaccines still in the trial phase. All for staggering costs!

A doctor presents an honest assessment: The former Swiss Mr. Corona: “we have gone too far”4. What is striking is that they had the audacity to do so without heeding various warnings.

For its part, the therapeutic products control authority Swissmedic has received numerous reports of adverse effects linked to anti-coronavirus vaccines: “16 reports of adverse side effects received”.000

While they bet with gene injections – a good part of which is now expired and therefore destroyed and expensive. Some 9 million doses are affected6 – do they really have the right inspiration to focus so much on DEP…? Obviously, it is easier to target digital health than human health, which is vibrant, constantly mobile and in perpetual search of harmony...!

It is in the current dynamic that the president of the general management of the CSS decrees: “digital has a key role to play in limiting the increase in health costs. Faster, more precise and personalized, digital health must progress in Switzerland, particularly under the leadership of insurers”7. Obviously, with a background as a lawyer and then studies in finance and accounting followed by studies at the London Business School, she inevitably has a view from the pedestal thus constituted.

She also believes that all health stakeholders must work together. Because one of the added values ​​of digital technology is interconnection. And yet, the time spent filling in the sections of a computer program is time taken away from human contacts between colleagues, contacts that are sources of training and information which will never pass through a screen and whose subtlety can lead to discoveries particular and productive.

She is also thinking about integrated care networks which improve coordination between practitioners and give them complete visibility of the patient's history. It does not take into account everything that may be missed by limiting the listening to patients who no longer receive the necessary time in a digitalized dynamic as much as possible) while avoiding duplication, delays and unnecessary consultations (which is a reality very practical but to which one is it wise to give so much space?).

An original question: “Patient file: useful or “PDF cemetery”?8

On the other hand, a human being develops according to his different bodies, which obey distinct laws while being all interconnected. In this way, when a health problem presents itself, it reveals the disruption of broader and deeper deviations that evolve over time and existential experiences. The file that can best reveal its state must be mobile, dynamic and present the ongoing correlations whereas an electronic file will never be able to highlight the different dimensions of the underlying energetic conflict in the present moment.

It is not insignificant that in medical practice, we talk about preventive medicine versus practical medicine. There is little or no room for early medicine. However, the first symptoms manifest themselves at the energetic and psycho-affective level. Many have already understood this by turning to numerous therapies such as traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, osteopathy, reflexology and others.

Thus, when health problems have not yet taken root in the body at the cellular level, or when technical means have resolved emergency situations, it is essential to seek to restore the energy circuits that drive the body. It is not enough to tell the patient “it’s in your head” or to “erase” the symptoms with tablets (chase the natural, it comes back at a gallop!)

While these energy therapies – so-called complementary medicines which can be frankly alternative – in many cases respond early to health needs, it is not logical that residents have to pay for complementary medicine insurance, which many cannot. afford. They must then wait for the illness to become more established in their daily lives for the treatments to be reimbursed by health insurance.

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