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Transform Global Health is an initiative to improve the state of healthcare globally

Our current approach to healthcare isn't working. Medical science has made progress by leaps and bounds with the advent of antibiotics, modern surgery, and the increasing application of technology to every area of healthcare, that has improved human life expectancy and recovery from disease. However, the way we provide healthcare to people across the world needs massive improvement. Not only is it preventing us from realizing the full benefits of the medical advancements we have made, but it is also holding back our true potential for progressing medical science to benefit humanity.

Global Healthcare Crisis

Today, there is high health risk across vast regions of the world. There are issues with the quality of care including inaccurate diagnosis, medical errors, and problems with medical practices in all countries at all economic levels. Healthcare infrastructure is lacking across most regions in the world and there is a severe lack of physicians and medical staff virtually everywhere. Underprivileged and developing nations severely lack health infrastructure and services, while the cost of healthcare is getting prohibitively high in advanced nations, increasing at a rate where it will become over 50% of the gross domestic product (GDP) before the end of the century, a level of expenditure that can bankrupt most countries! There is a global deficiency of physicians and medical staff. While poor nations are the worst hit, developed nations are facing a severe problem as well, with the USA projecting a shortage of more than 100,000 doctors by 2030. Even this doesn’t give a fully accurate picture, as the lack of trained, experienced physicians makes the situation even worse. Perhaps the most alarming and disturbing problem caused by today’s approach and systems is the rampant corruption in healthcare at a global scale. Physicians all over the world get kickbacks for prescribing medication. Doctors in India routinely perform procedures such as putting unnecessary stents in patients’ arteries or performing unrequired hysterectomies on the poorest women after childbirth to collect government insurance. Patients have to pay bribes in places like France, Germany and China for getting proper healthcare. Even in today’s information age, health information is not managed or handled properly. With the corporate inspired, enterprise driven approach most of the world is taking, economically challenged and developing nations cannot afford the expenditure for implementing electronic health records and advanced nations like the USA have severely flawed implementation resulting in health systems that fail to communicate with each other, do not empower patients or provide them more transparency, and cause resentment and burnout amongst physicians and medical staff. Indeed, fully 50% of physicians in the USA say that they do not want their children to take up medicine, a disturbing trend that is bound to catch up with us in the worst way possible.

TGH Einstein

Looking at all these problems, it is apparent that the state of healthcare is a “global epidemic”! We must do something about it. We must take a fresh approach. We must bring about a global transformation. Transform Global Health is an initiative to help achieve this. It is an action oriented program that will not just highlight global healthcare issues and bring our voices together, but also fund and implement actual, large scale, impactful projects that will achieve concrete results in transforming healthcare.

The first two projects we have undertaken are to implement the universal health information network (UNHIN), and to create a model hospital system that implements efficient technology, ethical practices and the controls required to provide the highest quality of care

There are significant issues with healthcare across the world

Global Health Risk

Global Health Risk
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  1. International SOS Health Risk Outlook:

"Today, inaccurate diagnosis, medication errors, inappropriate or unnecessary treatment, inadequate or unsafe clinical facilities or practices, or providers who lack adequate training and expertise prevail in all countries. -World Health Organization, July 5, 2018

Poor quality health services are impacting healthcare globally in countries at all income levels

  • 10% of hospitalized patients can expect to acquire an infection during their stay in low and middle income countries -7% in high-income countries, and one in ten patients is harmed during medical treatment in high income countries
  • Health care workers in seven low- and middle-income African countries were only able to make accurate diagnoses one third to three quarters of the time, and clinical guidelines for common conditions were followed less than 45 percent of the time on average
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  1. Delivering quality health services - A global imperative for universal health coverage, WHO-OECD-World Bank joint publication, July, 2018:
  2. A new evidence based estimate of patient harms associated with hospital care:,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx
  3. CDC statistics on deaths and mortality:
  4. The third-leading cause of death in US most doctors don't want you to know about:

Underprivileged and developing areas lack healthcare resources while developed nations are struggling with unmanageably high costs

Hospital Density per 1000 people
Global Hospital Density

Corruption in health care is endemic worldwide in public and private sectors, and in developed and resource-poor settings alike

  • Corruption is a serious threat to global health outcomes, leading to financial waste, compromised health security, and adverse health consequences. Forms of health corruption are diverse and complex and impact both developed and developing countries
  • A study in Europe revealed that bribery in medical services is a major challenge. European Countries where patients have the most frequent experiences of paying for privileged treatment are: Slovakia (41%), Slovenia (38%) and Germany, Spain, France and Sweden (all 29%), while the EU average stands at 19%
  • Surveys report that 80% of individuals in developing countries have experienced health sector corruption. Publications on details of corruption provide an alarming picture
  • As an example, there are several reports of alarming corruption in India related to widespread kickbacks, bribery, unnecessary medication, treatment, surgeries, and more
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  1. World Health Organization Assesses the World's Health Systems:
  2. Updated Study on Corruption in the Healthcare Sector:
  3. Combating healthcare corruption and fraud with improved global health governance:
  4. Transparency International Global Corruption Barrometer:
  5. Study Finds India Is Asia's Most Corrupt Country, While Japan Comes In Last:
  6. Healers or Predators, ISBN-13: 978-0199489541, OUP India:

Poor handling of health information is a major issue globally that causes multiple problems and frustration for patients and physicians

  • Handling of health information is problematic globally. While this applies to every aspect of healthcare, including drug production, clinical research and trials, analysis of treatments, identification of health trends, etc., it is most evident in the area of electronic health records (EHR)
  • Advanced nations that have wide adoption of EHRs have taken a highly problematic and expensive approach, with the global expenditure on EHR expected to reach $33.4 Billion by 2025
  • EHRs have been implemented as silo systems that do not interoperate. Health systems use multiple EHR software packages (with 1000+ vendors). Silo EHR systems cannot exchange information between hospital departments, let alone more broadly across organizations
  • The current approach to EHR is not providing the expected level of patient engagement and is also causing stress and dissatisfaction for medical staff. As an example physician burnout is affecting about 50% of practicing doctors in USA with EHR implementations taking the blame as the most significant factor
  • Several problem areas such as improper or inaccurate tabulation of healthcare statistics, distribution of counterfeit drugs in the market, and many more can be improved immensely with a well implemented health information network
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  1. EHR interoperability, connectivity a big challenge around globe new study finds:
  2. Use of more than one electronic medical record system within a single health care organization:
  3. EHRs get most blame for epidemic of physician burnout:
  4. To Combat Physician Burnout and Improve Care, Fix the Electronic Health Record:
  5. Electronic Health Records Market:
  6. Electronic solutions for combating counterfeit drugs:
  7. Growing threat from counterfeit medicines:

Transform Global Health Projects

Hospital Information and Electronic Health Record System (HIS) Implementation
Hospital Information and Electronic Health Record System

As a part of the UNHIN program, Transform Global Health (TGH) is providing a comprehensive, integrated Hospital Information and Electronic Health Record System to hospitals and medical practices across the world. This is an enterprise-grade implementation providing market leading features and functionality and a fully integrated system that will digitize the entire medical processes of the hospital. The UNHIN team works with each hospital to understand their specific needs and implement the system to meet their requirements. This is part of the effort to improve the management of physician practices and hospitals globally, which is a key factor for establishing the UNHIN. Hospitals and physician practices may apply for this by filling out a simple form providing their information. Our team will review your information and get in touch with you to discuss your requirements and the suitability of the HIS platform for your organization.

Hospital Information and Electronic Health Record System HIS

Development of Large Modular Hospitals for assisting with COVID-19

A key part of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic is to rapidly increase hospital bed capacity. No region in the world is equipped to handle a pandemic. As an example, the US only has the capacity to hospitalize 0.3 percent of its population at any given time, while India which has a much higher population, can only hospitalize about 0.1 percent of its population at any given time. This hospital capacity is normally close to fully taken up due to normal healthcare related needs of the population.

If a pandemic such as COVID-19 requires 1,2 or 3% of the population to be hospitalized, it’s easy to see how the region’s hospital capacity will get completely overwhelmed very quickly. Understanding these statistics, and this grave problem, the #UNHIN team jumped into action and one of the solutions we designed is to rapidly construct modular hospitals to help with the COVID-19 response. These hospitals are designed to be assembled using technology and materials currently available in the market and can be rapidly constructed in as less as 4-5 weeks. It is also possible to build capacity to provide hospitals even more rapidly in 2-3 weeks after initial production of the modular units.

We’re sharing this paper here as an example of the work our team can do very quickly, and in case it might help in any region across the world.

Large Modular Hospitals for assisting with COVID-19

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