In his new book, Health Guardianship: The Remedy to
the Sick Care System, Dr. Daneshgari draws upon more than 30 years of research
to offer an unflinching exploration into the systemic dysfunction caused
(primarily) by America’s fee-for-service healthcare model. Procedures and
surgeries generate revenue; healthy people don’t. Can our healthcare system be
healed?

“We have built a system specialized for sick care, and
yet ironically we expect the results of ‘healthcare’ from it,” he said.

Daneshgari details a framework for a new healthcare
paradigm that prioritizes mitigation of health risks and elimination of chronic
conditions, and rewards guardianship of health, not delivery of sick care
services.

“My aim is to generate a national dialogue and
movement toward a path forward that will create the next model of healthcare delivery.
A model that will have all the medical and technological advances, and yet it
is accessible, affordable, high quality and consumer-centric and not
provider-centric,” Daneshgari said.

He describes how this new model can be implemented
using the existing primary care infrastructure, with the integration of virtual
health and wellness services to make proactive, consumer-centric healthcare as
convenient and affordable as shopping and banking.

Acting like a whistle blower who calls out the
existing dysfunction of the system, Daneshgari offers an imminently available
remedy that would create the next generation of healthcare that is accessible
to all, affordable by everyone and will provide the quality desired by
healthcare consumers.

About the Author

Firouz Daneshgari, M.D., is a surgeon-scientist,
educator and entrepreneur who has worked at the University of Colorado,
Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University. He has published more
than 200 scientific articles, led numerous scientific and clinical panels, and
trained hundreds of students, residents, fellows and junior faculty.

Following implementation of the Affordable Care Act
and approval of its mandates by the Supreme Court during 2010-2012, he founded
BowTie Medical to create systematic innovations for bringing efficiency and
value into the healthcare delivery system.

In addition to Health Guardianship, Daneshgari shares
his views on healthcare and the path forward through his podcast, Why Can’t We
Have it All? The
Missing Pieces in Our Healthcare (www.wcwha.com).