To move our treatment transparency tools to the Internet and onto mobile devices, we have launched an IndieGoGo campaign and are asking for your support at the following URL:
http://igg.me/at/EbolaAfricaScience
We have created four tools. One tool searches for a diagnosis or helps you to create a specific diagnosis. The second tool helps you create a list of treatments. The third tool is a calculator, which helps you calculate the science of medicine behind each treatment. The last tool helps you organize medical references and their statistics.
We believe in shared decision-making, patient empowerment through transparency, and better patient engagement. We hope to be able to move all these tools onto our website and onto mobile devices soon. However, there is a lot of programming involved.
Thank you.
Ebola in Africa: The Science Behind the Treatments
Ebola has killed over 10,000 people in Africa according to the World Health Organization. Something very simple could help a lot of people; it's called shared decision-making. Shared decision-making means that you know the facts, you discuss the facts with your doctors and nurses, and you make decisions together.
Did you know that a physician in Africa has promoted a treatment for Ebola that has zero clinical evidence to support it?
What if Africans and the entire world had a website that rated the science of medicine behind treatments so these situations would be obvious? We have created software to help you create a list of treatments for Ebola (and all other diseases), and our software also helps you rate the science of medicine behind those treatments.
To get started doing this kind of treatment transparency for Ebola, we have launched an IndieGoGo campaign and are asking for your support at the following URL: http://igg.me/at/EbolaAfricaScience
Please watch the movie this link takes you to. It explains how we want to help patients, physicians, nurses, and all healthcare professionals understand the science behind Ebola treatments.
We will create a list of treatments for the Ebola virus infection in Africa. We will rate the science of medicine behind those treatments according to the medical literature using our new health information technology tools - and we want you to rate the science as well.
We think we have already found something very important in the medical literature about treating Ebola in Africa. Certainly, all Ebola treatments should be examined for the science of medicine behind them, because so many people have died from Ebola already, many are dying now, and because so many more will die in the future.
We have created educational products: a diagnosis search tool, a treatment list tool, an organizer tool, and a tool to help you rate the science of medicine behind medical treatments.
When the website and mobile applications are done, we want you to use these tools so that you can study the medical literature and adjust the ratings of the science of medicine using evidence-based medicine guidelines according to your own educational needs. This is the only way we can ever have true "personalized medicine" and "shared decision-making."
Patients are the players in healthcare with the greatest needs. We want to help them with "treatment transparency." The first step is understanding the science in the background, which is mostly hidden from view now.
We want to do this for Ebola, and then once successful for Ebola, for other diseases as well. You are free to choose whether to help us out or not, but it would be appreciated. Just sharing this link would be helpful: http://igg.me/at/EbolaAfricaScience
We can start looking at one disease at a time, build treatment lists, and perfect the tools to rate the science behind those treatments. As we improve the tools, we can move on to breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, the common cold, the flu, and every other disease.
DISCLAIMERS: WE DO NOT CLAIM TO CURE, treat, or prevent Ebola or any other disease. We are an educational system to teach you how figure out the science of medicine behind treatments, which should be the starting point for shared decision-making for all diseases. We are organizing and rating the science of medicine behind treatments, we are NOT rating the treatments themselves. These are two different things. We help you to review the medical literature and quantify the science of medicine behind treatments, but you cannot use this information to treat yourself or others. We make no claims about accuracy, in fact, we claim ZERO ACCURACY. We are an educational exercise only. You must see your own licensed medical professional for treatment. We are an educational exercise, not medical guidelines. We are looking at the past medical literature; we cannot predict how treatments will work for you or anyone else going forward into the future. Choosing a treatment also involves clinical experience, making the right diagnosis, and knowing all about someone after a medical history, physical examination, and testing. Our software system is not designed to know these things. In addition, the medical literature can be wrong. SO YOU MUST SEE your own physician or other qualified medical practitioner to help you choose a treatment or treatments.
Did you know that a physician in Africa has promoted a treatment for Ebola that has zero clinical evidence to support it?
What if Africans and the entire world had a website that rated the science of medicine behind treatments so these situations would be obvious? We have created software to help you create a list of treatments for Ebola (and all other diseases), and our software also helps you rate the science of medicine behind those treatments.
To get started doing this kind of treatment transparency for Ebola, we have launched an IndieGoGo campaign and are asking for your support at the following URL: http://igg.me/at/EbolaAfricaScience
Please watch the movie this link takes you to. It explains how we want to help patients, physicians, nurses, and all healthcare professionals understand the science behind Ebola treatments.
We will create a list of treatments for the Ebola virus infection in Africa. We will rate the science of medicine behind those treatments according to the medical literature using our new health information technology tools - and we want you to rate the science as well.
We think we have already found something very important in the medical literature about treating Ebola in Africa. Certainly, all Ebola treatments should be examined for the science of medicine behind them, because so many people have died from Ebola already, many are dying now, and because so many more will die in the future.
We have created educational products: a diagnosis search tool, a treatment list tool, an organizer tool, and a tool to help you rate the science of medicine behind medical treatments.
When the website and mobile applications are done, we want you to use these tools so that you can study the medical literature and adjust the ratings of the science of medicine using evidence-based medicine guidelines according to your own educational needs. This is the only way we can ever have true "personalized medicine" and "shared decision-making."
Patients are the players in healthcare with the greatest needs. We want to help them with "treatment transparency." The first step is understanding the science in the background, which is mostly hidden from view now.
We want to do this for Ebola, and then once successful for Ebola, for other diseases as well. You are free to choose whether to help us out or not, but it would be appreciated. Just sharing this link would be helpful: http://igg.me/at/EbolaAfricaScience
We can start looking at one disease at a time, build treatment lists, and perfect the tools to rate the science behind those treatments. As we improve the tools, we can move on to breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, the common cold, the flu, and every other disease.
DISCLAIMERS: WE DO NOT CLAIM TO CURE, treat, or prevent Ebola or any other disease. We are an educational system to teach you how figure out the science of medicine behind treatments, which should be the starting point for shared decision-making for all diseases. We are organizing and rating the science of medicine behind treatments, we are NOT rating the treatments themselves. These are two different things. We help you to review the medical literature and quantify the science of medicine behind treatments, but you cannot use this information to treat yourself or others. We make no claims about accuracy, in fact, we claim ZERO ACCURACY. We are an educational exercise only. You must see your own licensed medical professional for treatment. We are an educational exercise, not medical guidelines. We are looking at the past medical literature; we cannot predict how treatments will work for you or anyone else going forward into the future. Choosing a treatment also involves clinical experience, making the right diagnosis, and knowing all about someone after a medical history, physical examination, and testing. Our software system is not designed to know these things. In addition, the medical literature can be wrong. SO YOU MUST SEE your own physician or other qualified medical practitioner to help you choose a treatment or treatments.
The Problem and the Solution for Treatment Transparency in Medicine
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCORI) team says, “Every day, patients and their caregivers are faced with crucial health care decisions while lacking key information that they need.”
PCORI also says that we need to translate “…existing scientific research into accessible and useable formats…”
The problem for patients is that the medical literature is like a huge, dark, underground cavern of 22.5 million medical studies. It’s difficult to get into the cave, and after getting down inside the cave the obstacles to understanding the medical literature are numerous: difficult medical vocabulary, no access to full-text studies, unfamiliar statistics, and no clinical experience.
Even the most highly skilled patient cannot overcome all these obstacles and the “avalanche of big data.”
Every once in a while, a physician (or other expert) enters the cave, shines a flashlight into the darkness, and comes out to explain a very narrow area of the hard scientific data to a patient. Then, it all goes dark again.
Our Treatment Score Analyzer™ goes into that huge dark cavern, wires it with electricity, and turns the lights on forever by producing Treatment Scores™.
What you get is the ability to:
Even the most highly skilled patient cannot overcome all these obstacles and the “avalanche of big data.”
- Look up a diagnosis
- Create a list of treatments for that diagnosis from Western medicine, Eastern medicine, herbal medicine, and all other forms of alternative medicine
- Score the treatments based on the science that supports them
Treatment Scores, Inc.
We continue building and improving our intellectual property:
Treatment Score Analyzer™
1. Diagnosis Tool™
2. Treatment Organizer™
3. Treatment Score Calculator™
4. STAR Blocks™ = StaaR Blocks™
STAR Block™
Treatment Score™
Treatment Scores™
Treatment Grade™
Treatment Grades™
SOM®
Treatment Score Analyzer™
1. Diagnosis Tool™
2. Treatment Organizer™
3. Treatment Score Calculator™
4. STAR Blocks™ = StaaR Blocks™
STAR Block™
Treatment Score™
Treatment Scores™
Treatment Grade™
Treatment Grades™
SOM®
The Problems in Healthcare and the Solutions
The Problem for Patients
The problem for patients in healthcare is described by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research team: “Every day, patients and their caregivers are faced with crucial health care decisions while lacking key information that they need.” PCORI goes on to say that we need to translate “…existing scientific research into accessible and useable formats…”
SOURCE: “Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Funding Announcement: Communication and Dissemination.” PCORI. Published May 22, 2012, Revised September 17, 2012. Page 2. Accessed December 1, 2012. http://www.pcori.org/assets/FINAL-PFA-Communication-and-Dissemination-v3.pdf
The Problem for Doctors
The problem for doctors is that they want to focus on what they love: taking care of patients. Malay Ghandi of Rock Health says: “We are looking for ‘physician-first’ companies that build tools beloved by doctors. The sad fact is, doctors enjoy medicine less and less each day and dissatisfaction has never been higher. We believe EHRs [Electronic Health Records] are satisfaction killers.... Enabling the provision of higher quality care is the number one driver of job satisfaction and your product must start there.”
SOURCE: Malay Gandhi. November 10, 2014. http://rockhealth.com/2014/11/ideas-wed-like-fund-2/
The Solution
We believe the solution for patients, doctors, nurses, and all allied healthcare professionals is Treatment Scores™, which are produced by analyzing the science of medicine behind medical treatments. This type of quantification has never been done in medicine before. The clinical decision-making process has always been considered too complex. It's like the early days of the computer when only people who knew machine programming language could use a computer. Then, Apple and Windows came along and put on a graphical user interface and suddenly everyone could use a computer! That's basically what we at Treatment Scores, Inc. are doing. We are putting a graphical user interface on the treatment decision-making process.
We provide you with four tools inside our Treatment Score Analyzer™. These tools enable you to quantify the Science of Medicine behind medical treatments. The tools are:
1. Diagnosis Tool™
2. Treatment Organizer™
3. Treatment Score Calculator™
4. STAR Blocks™
Using our Treatment Score Analyzer™ creates quantified transparency in healthcare for the first time in medical history. We also quantify treatments for you, and with you, using evidence-based medicine algorithms to create both Treatment Scores™ and Treatment Grades™. You will be able to decide for yourself if a treatment is grade A or grade F.
A – The best treatments that are supported by randomized controlled studies.
B
C – Average treatments
D
E – It is shocking how many treatments in medicine today are actually Grade E, the worst in terms of having any positive effect at all.
Grade F treatments are considered harmful. An example would be the frontal lobotomy being done for depression.
Using our Treatment Score Analyzer™, which puts a graphical user interface on the clinical decision-making process, everyone is able to see the science of medicine behind medical treatments.
AngelList
AngelList is a website that helps new start-up companies. If you are on AngelList or are going to join http://AngelList.co, please follow our profiles at:
https://angel.co/treatment-scores-inc
https://angel.co/bradley-hennenfent
https://angel.co/stephen-hennenfent-m-d
https://angel.co/jasermd
https://angel.co/stephen-fitzmeyer-md
https://angel.co/scott-murano
https://angel.co/j-d-freedman
Please also follow the progress of our website at:
http://TreatmentScores.com
DISCLAIMERS:
We claim zero percent accuracy. We provide organizational and informational tools only. As a new technology, we claim zero percent accuracy for Treatment Scores™, Treatment Grades™, and SOM® scores. We do not recommend any treatments, medications, devices, or other healthcare products. We do not recommend any physicians or other healthcare providers. See your own licensed physician, or other qualified healthcare professional, before undergoing any treatment. It is our intention to provide tools for learning, but we do not form doctor-patient relationships, recommend treatments, suggest treatments for you, or treat patients in any way. See our full disclaimer linked to at the top of the website page.
The problem for patients in healthcare is described by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research team: “Every day, patients and their caregivers are faced with crucial health care decisions while lacking key information that they need.” PCORI goes on to say that we need to translate “…existing scientific research into accessible and useable formats…”
SOURCE: “Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Funding Announcement: Communication and Dissemination.” PCORI. Published May 22, 2012, Revised September 17, 2012. Page 2. Accessed December 1, 2012. http://www.pcori.org/assets/FINAL-PFA-Communication-and-Dissemination-v3.pdf
The Problem for Doctors
The problem for doctors is that they want to focus on what they love: taking care of patients. Malay Ghandi of Rock Health says: “We are looking for ‘physician-first’ companies that build tools beloved by doctors. The sad fact is, doctors enjoy medicine less and less each day and dissatisfaction has never been higher. We believe EHRs [Electronic Health Records] are satisfaction killers.... Enabling the provision of higher quality care is the number one driver of job satisfaction and your product must start there.”
SOURCE: Malay Gandhi. November 10, 2014. http://rockhealth.com/2014/11/ideas-wed-like-fund-2/
The Solution
We believe the solution for patients, doctors, nurses, and all allied healthcare professionals is Treatment Scores™, which are produced by analyzing the science of medicine behind medical treatments. This type of quantification has never been done in medicine before. The clinical decision-making process has always been considered too complex. It's like the early days of the computer when only people who knew machine programming language could use a computer. Then, Apple and Windows came along and put on a graphical user interface and suddenly everyone could use a computer! That's basically what we at Treatment Scores, Inc. are doing. We are putting a graphical user interface on the treatment decision-making process.
We provide you with four tools inside our Treatment Score Analyzer™. These tools enable you to quantify the Science of Medicine behind medical treatments. The tools are:
1. Diagnosis Tool™
2. Treatment Organizer™
3. Treatment Score Calculator™
4. STAR Blocks™
Using our Treatment Score Analyzer™ creates quantified transparency in healthcare for the first time in medical history. We also quantify treatments for you, and with you, using evidence-based medicine algorithms to create both Treatment Scores™ and Treatment Grades™. You will be able to decide for yourself if a treatment is grade A or grade F.
A – The best treatments that are supported by randomized controlled studies.
B
C – Average treatments
D
E – It is shocking how many treatments in medicine today are actually Grade E, the worst in terms of having any positive effect at all.
Grade F treatments are considered harmful. An example would be the frontal lobotomy being done for depression.
Using our Treatment Score Analyzer™, which puts a graphical user interface on the clinical decision-making process, everyone is able to see the science of medicine behind medical treatments.
AngelList
AngelList is a website that helps new start-up companies. If you are on AngelList or are going to join http://AngelList.co, please follow our profiles at:
https://angel.co/treatment-scores-inc
https://angel.co/bradley-hennenfent
https://angel.co/stephen-hennenfent-m-d
https://angel.co/jasermd
https://angel.co/stephen-fitzmeyer-md
https://angel.co/scott-murano
https://angel.co/j-d-freedman
Please also follow the progress of our website at:
http://TreatmentScores.com
DISCLAIMERS:
We claim zero percent accuracy. We provide organizational and informational tools only. As a new technology, we claim zero percent accuracy for Treatment Scores™, Treatment Grades™, and SOM® scores. We do not recommend any treatments, medications, devices, or other healthcare products. We do not recommend any physicians or other healthcare providers. See your own licensed physician, or other qualified healthcare professional, before undergoing any treatment. It is our intention to provide tools for learning, but we do not form doctor-patient relationships, recommend treatments, suggest treatments for you, or treat patients in any way. See our full disclaimer linked to at the top of the website page.
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