Don't go into the health system blind. Pay an industry expert to help you get the best deal

Wikihospitals Advisor

How should your condition be diagnosed and treated?Where can you get the cheapest, best quality treatments?Is there technology aids to help you manage your disease at home?

Innovative disruption has finally arrived in healthcare

You now have affordable options

• Why endure chronic pain and disability for months, even years while waiting on public hospital lists?

• Why pay thousands of dollars in unexpected out of pocket costs for private treatments?

• Why walk blind into sub standard hospitals that have been the subject of repeated complaints?

Why we started our business

❖ The death toll from hospital errors in Australia is estimated to be 18,000 a year. 50,000 sustain serious injury from hospital errors. That is 9 times the national road toll. There is no national collation of data about hospital errors to identify the major causes and work to reduce them.

❖ Hospital funding is fragmented into short, episodic treatment payments, and has no relationship to the quality of care actually delivered. There are very few customer feedback surveys conducted to assess patients experiences. There is no public public forum for feedback on healthcare services, no Trip Advisor for hospitals.

❖ Extensive reports on bad hospitals and under performing doctors are maintained by health bureaucracies. These include drug addicted doctors, high rates of patient deaths in certain areas and repeat Coroner’s complaints about particular hospitals. This information is kept hidden from the public under ‘privacy laws’ and ‘commercial in confidence’ laws.

❖ Medical records are still paper bound, use of the national e-health record system is low. Half of all hospital discharge summaries leave out significant conditions and one in 10 have the wrong diagnosis. One third of hospital errors and 50% of general practice errors are medication related.

❖ In the absence of national, legally binding Best Practice Guidelines, medical and nursing care varies dramatically from hospital to hospital. There is no publicly available Best Practice Clinical Guidelines for the public to assess their treatment against. 57% of Australians receive medical care that is below recommended best practice guidelines.

❖ Private hospitals are legally exempt from publishing their error rates. This is despite the fact that public exposure is one of the few proven methods of raising hospital standards. One third of Australian hospitals are now private.

❖ There are currently no 'whole of treatment' up front quotes for private medical treatments. Private hospital bills are fragmented into a wide variety of bills with different rebates from different heath funds at different levels of cover. Australia is third in the world for out of pocket medical bills. A senate enquiry into the issue in 2014 found out of pocket costs to be a growing barrier to public health. Every major newspaper in the country has published stories of private patients ending out out of pocket over $10,000 for private hospital treatments.

Advice about treatments made by consultants with no emotional involvement and large datasets at their finger tips Save money and avoid bad medical treatments• Learn to treat hospitals, clinics

and nursing homes in the same way you would treat airline companies and hotels

• It's all about getting the best deal for you or your family

• Customer service is the basis of our company

How does it work?

❖ You post your medical needs on-line. A new diagnosis of cancer. A chronic joint injury that requires surgery. An interest in new genetic testing to pick up possible risk of developing specific diseases. More accurate ways to manage your child's diabetes.

❖ Our consultants select the job based on their area of expertise and team discussions.

❖ You pay the fee they suggest upfront, based on the complexity of the job requested.

❖ They access our company data on Best Practice Clinical Guidelines, out of pocket costs, hospital rating system, quality community services and the best apps and smart devices

❖ Our consultants also investigate your individual medical need, check the most appropriate option for you and contact you with a suggested plan, including pricing

❖ If you accept their suggestions, our consultants will book your appointments with selected medical, scientific and allied health services

❖ You will receive a written appraisal of your medical condition, your recommended treatment, the recommended hospital, clinic or home care service and wireless devices and apps to help you manage your health data and monitor your conditions

The medical industry is meant to improve your health, not send you broke or cause you

unnecessary distress❖ All individuals are unique. However

recommenced medical practice, scientific data and proven statistics on treatment success rates are international.

❖ We aim to keep over servicing and unnecessary costs to a minimum. More is not better. More effective with proven results is.

❖ Every cost to you is counted. Time off work. Pharmacy scripts. Pathology tests. Hospital stays. Your costs are our concern.

❖ Many hospital errors are due to simple problems like inaccurate medical records. We focus on the basics to keep you safe.

Why be a passive recipient of add hoc advice that frequently ignores cost and quality? Think outside the box. Take control of your healthcare treatments.

Contact us now

• Why wait in pain? Fly overseas and quickly have your surgery at half the cost of an Australian private hospital

• Avoid crowded emergency departments. Manage your chronic disease at home with doctors on-line, home nursing and smart monitoring

• Instead of ‘tick the box’ tests and treatments, choose personalised medicine from hospitals that have worked hard to deliver quality care