Toward a Rebirth of
Human-Centered
Health Care
People Still Want (and Need) Quality Health Services
SME (the Sound Medicines Enterprise) is committed to a renovation and advancement of a health care delivery system personalized to the individual. One that is affordable, local, reliable, and absolutely worthy of trust.
SME is seeking meaningful engagements (as a partner) with other like-minded people and organizations to repair all that has been damaged (especially trust) across the Provider, Payer, Manufacturer & Consumer domains to launch a restoration of quality medical care in the U.S.
This is the second iteration of SME Health Systems. The first one was hatched long before COVID happened. (See Here for a Brief Explanation: Once Upon a Time)
Comprised of a small team of experienced professionals, we were focused on many different things relating to the pharmaceutical & device industries and how they related to hospital system and health plan customers: Pricing, Formulary Placement, Value Based Contracting, Data Analytics, Evidence Based Medicine.
What have we learned since then? What are we after?
Better Health Care. We seek nothing less than a new & corruption-free system, which includes pharma & device products. We believe our values are universal and that this work is essential.
Restoration of Trust Especially at the personal level where it was so egregiously broken.
To do this, we must examine those deficits we want to mitigate and devise strategies to resolve them.
A Sound Medical System
Enabling an approach to “Sound Medicines” in the United States, and, if possible, around the world. Our values should be universal. How we achieve them may vary.
The Human Being Must Come First
When people do not trust their doctors, or the drug or treatment they have been prescribed, they don’t “cooperate” and may actually hide what is really going on. It is critical that confidential and trusted relationships are once again fostered based upon adherence to common principles that always put people above the protocol.
So Many Experienced Professionals Remain on the Sidelines
Since 2020, thousands of experienced health care professionals of every stripe (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, therapists, EMTs, etc.) left their jobs rather than enable practices they found to be unusual and sometimes, frankly, objectionable to their code of ethics.
Re-engaging these professionals (even if only on a part-time basis) can help us reconstitute an improved system and resolve the issues that have been most damaging to patient engagement.