Conceptual Design Standards for a Single Comprehensive Confidential Health Records Database Communications Network
by John R. Krismer
©2017
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Patients legally own their medical records that are stored either manually or on an assortment of computers,
software, and operating systems in a variety of disorganized healthcare facilities, which are spiraling healthcare
costs out of control. In 1910, the Flexner Report by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, established
medical education standards and licensing of qualified physicians who took the moral and ethical Hippocratic
Oath to Do No Harm, but today’s costs are clearly harming those sick and disabled that cannot afford to
obtain proper healthcare.
Blue Cross was founded in 1929 and Blue Shield in 1939, which formed Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS), a very
successful privately owned non-profit-non-insurance pre-payment program that paid no taxes and
was regulated by each state as a Community Rated System – meaning regardless of age, sex, where they
lived, or how sick they were. In 1946, the Hill-Burton Hospital Survey and Construction Act helped non-profit
hospitals obtain guaranteed federal grants to meet their growth needs, and to accomplish a 4.5 bed ratio per a 1,000
population. These hospitals also had to provide a reasonable amount of uncompensated care for twenty years and were
not allowed to discriminate based on race, color, national origin, or creed. In 1945, Congress passed the McCarran-Ferguson
Act, which resulted in the United States becoming the only country in the world to seek profit from their sick and disabled.
Then in 1965, to correct the McCarran-Ferguson mistake, Congress passed Medicare and Medicaid where Medicare provides health
coverage for those who are 65 or older or have a severe disability and Medicaid, which was a state and federal program,
providing health coverage for those with a very low income. Congress chose to partner with BCBS to administer Medicare,
while secretly creating a special government healthcare insurance program for themselves.
To counter Medicare and Medicaid, for profit insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry aggressively lobbied
Congress with favors as our World Health Organization’s (WHO) healthcare ranking dropped from first to thirty-second. Profit
insurance marketed only healthy clients and working groups to buy cheaper Tiered low-risk Group Rated profit
insurance, knowing these clients did not have a clue that each group rate would increase as its members decreased in number
due to health related problems and age. This forced BCBS to cover more of the aged, sick and disabled, and pregnancies,
which profit insurance dumped by increasing these patient’s premiums to unrealistic levels. With this new competition,
non-profit hospitals experienced huge financial losses as insurance profits began to spiral healthcare costs out of control.
As a result, hospitals were forced to develop Regional Planning and Cost Containment Programs, and later in 1979, this author
served as the Chairperson of a Regional Cost Containment Committee, spending a full day with Gerald Ford, the former President
of the United States to seek his advice on how healthcare might return to a single non-profit prepayment system. After that
meeting, Gerald Ford put his arm over the author’s shoulder and said: “John, the healthcare system will have to collapse
before things will get better.”
He didn’t believe him then, but he does now ? and surprisingly, both our congressional and presidential candidates are
finally discussing the possibility of returning to a single cost effective healthcare system. Today’s many decentralized
profit seeking insurance and pharmaceutical profit seekers, along with today’s costly non-standardized computer developments
are only digging a deeper hole that will make it far more difficult to return to a professionally led cost effective single
computer network. “Conceptual Design Standards” proposes a single non-profit health record communications network that will
help America understand and hopefully support the enormous job that is every bit as big as our space program, which we’ll
soon be economically forced to reduce due to today’s spiraling out of control healthcare costs.
About the Author
John R. Krismer – MHA-LFACHE, as founder and CEO of Health Systems Institute (HSI), has consulted with governments and
hundreds of hospitals and clinics, while speaking to numerous professional organizations and conducting hundreds of institutes.
He has published numerous articles and books, and served as the Principle Investigator for the HSI research involving a single
standardized computer based medical record network with the help of more than one thousand doctors, nurses and paraprofessionals
and four major universities. He’s served as the CEO of several hospitals, corporations, and as a board member at two health
insurance companies. More importantly he is frequently referred to as a visionary far ahead of his time and is credited with
establishing the first fully staffed physician’s emergency service in Lansing, Michigan in 1967, where he persuaded Dr. Eugene
Nakfoor and Dr. John Wiegenstein to become professionally trained emergency physicians, who later established The American
College of Emergency Physicians in 1968, which today has some 35,000 members saving lives through a single standardized system.
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