​Yisrael M Safeek, MD, MBA, FACPE
Founder, Chairman & CEO         

With Bill Clinton

With Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter

Donald Trump's Letter

          Rarely in the history of our nation has there been an urgency to address problems facing the US healthcare system. Most of these problems are not new; they have been discussed for decades by the all-talk, do-nothing politicians.
          Making American Healthcare Great Again is a seven-point healthcare policy strategy.  The “IT IS ACE” strategy addresses seven urgent national policy initiatives that should be implemented by Health and Human Services for the benefit of the American people.
​          Each letter in the “IT IS ACE” strategy title corresponds to a major policy initiative. For each policy initiative, there is an outline of the Scope of the Problem; Policy Priorities; Deployment Phases; Special Considerations; and Accountability.
Yisrael Safeek, MD, MBA, SafeCare, 4th Quarter 2017

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  ​Riyadh, KSA
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  Former President
  Bill Clinton
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  Former President 
  ​Jimmy Carter
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Yisrael M Safeek, MD, MBA, FACPE spent the last 30+ years offering strategic leadership within the US healthcare system - doctor, medical director, 18-hospital Chief Medical Officer, 10 years Joint Commission, 5 years Malcolm Baldrige Board of Examiners, book author, speaker, and software developer. 
​          Dr. Safeek turned down the position of United States Undersecretary of Health.
​          In 2010, Dr. Safeek hired a team of software developers and programmers to develop custom Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. In 2013, the company created the EMR-based PulseChex software for clinical integration, which allowed it to analyze data and publish ratings and rankings on more than 4,500 different US hospitals.  
​          100 SafeCare Hospitals site was up in 2013. The consumer-oriented service helps consumers make informed decisions about their health care. Based upon hospitals performance trends, the company in 2014 launched a new EMR-based SaaS to satisfy Joint Commission’s physician privileging requirements OPPERA, and another SaaS to help hospitals with Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Value Based Program (HVBP) ValueTrax I.
          By 2015, the company released SafeCare magazine to share important healthcare quality information to the general public and key healthcare stakeholders. The company also released another EMR-based SaaS for the CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) ValueTrax II. This was followed in 2016 by yet another SaaS-based application for the CMS Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) ValueTrax III​.
          More importantly, in 2016 the firm moved aggressively into the artificial intelligence (AI) space via emulation of intelligence and applying machine learning, deep learning and artificial neural networks to EMR data. SafeCare AI was born.
          In 2017, the firm released its seven-point plan to fixing a broken US healthcare system, and this was submitted to the White House. A year later, The SafeCare Group released its 2018 US Hospitals Performance Report, tracking hospital performance in quality, safety, and efficiency over the last five years.
         In 2019, the company kick-started America's healthcare revolution with AI platforms that predict patient outcomes and offer real-time, clinical decision support, based on dynamic exploitation and immediate statistical analysis of EMR information. 
          At the end of 2019, the firm released its Patient Ratings Application – Rate A Hospital – for patients to connect with great hospitals by sharing actual first-hand care experiences with hospitals.  
​          Prior to founding The SafeCare Group, Dr. Safeek served in the dual roles of Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer for an 18-hospital health system in Texas and New Mexico with a $2.5 billion annual budget. He was employed by The Joint Commission for close to 10 years, and worked on the Hospital Medical Staff Systems Tracer, OPPE and FPPE, and received commendation for the Joint Commission's Patient Flow Tracer. He was one of the first Kentucky physicians to be appointed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and served for half a decade on the Malcolm Baldrige Program Board of Examiners.
​          In 2010, Dr. Safeek authored and published the peer-reviewed CAUTI Bundle and 12-point “I AM FOR SAFETY” Surgical Checklist as the feature story in Healthcare Financial Management Journal (August 2010 issue). Today, the surgical checklist is a Centers of Medicare and Medicaid requirement for hospitals, and the CAUTI Bundle is being utilized on every continent. 
​          He is also the author of the book, Credentialing and Privileging for Accountable Care, published by the American College of Physician Executives.  
          Dr. Safeek obtained his Doctor of Medicine from East Tennessee State University. While holding down three jobs, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree Magna Cum Laude in two and a half years from Austin Peay State University - with a Double Major in Biology and Chemistry. He completed his residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Anesthesiology. ​He later obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee - graduating top of his class. 
          Dr. Safeek is a Vanguard Advisory Member and Fellow of the American Association for Physician Leadership, the “highest honor awarded to physician leaders who have made significant contributions in improving the delivery and outcomes in medicine."

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Second Decade of The SafeCare Group

          Our focus over the coming decade is Intelligent Healthcare – kick-starting America's healthcare revolution with artificial intelligence (AI) software to improve healthcare outcomes.
​          By leveraging machine learning and deep-learning capabilities, including artificial neural networks, SafeCare AI fosters a new generation of healthcare applications, which are able to sense, reason, act, and adapt to address a range of healthcare challenges in areas such as medical errors, readmissions, redundant care and utilization, infections, and cost. 

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First Decade of The SafeCare Group 

The catalyst

​Excerpt of interview, SafeCare magazine, 3rd Quarter 2016
Sarju Bharucha, JD, Editor-in-Chief: In all your years working in patient safety, what has surprised you most?
Yisrael Safeek, MD, MBA: The biggest coming to mind is an inspection visit to a “world renowned” hospital when I was with The Joint Commission. When I say “world renowned” I’m referring to a top 10 rating in the nation…rated by others of course. The hospital’s leadership constantly kept reminding the inspection team of these ratings. That all sounds fine until you know that the hospital had over 250 findings after a five day inspection.
​          They had patient safety lapses like using concentrated heparin to flush central lines, lack of two person handoff from the blood bank, blood administration without staff present in the initial moment, pharmacy not reviewing pre-procedure orders for medications, no post-procedure retrospective review, medications drawn up and mixed in a syringe and stored for later use without the strength of the dose on the label, lack of defined processes for prompt resolution of patient grievances, just to name a few. 
          I can tell you of another occasion when we …the inspection team…arrived at this great Midwestern health system and was asked to go home. Days earlier ahead of Joint Commission survey, the health system was visited by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid and had over 1,000 findings. Some involved rape of a patient in a psych ward. Truly sad. 

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Making American Healthcare Great Again

​          In 2016, Dr Safeek published Seven-Point US Healthcare Strategy for Making American Healthcare Great Again. Policy Initiative III - Invest in Pandemic Preparedness as Integral Part of National Security.
          Listed below are the seven policy initiatives, and for each, a plan outlining scope of the problems, policy priorities, deployment phases, special considerations, and accountability. Copies of the magazine and report were sent to the Whitehouse. 

Published Plan

POLICY	DESCRIPTION	SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM	POLICY PRIORITIES	DEPLOYMENT PHASES	SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS	GOVERNANCE
Policy Initiative I	Implement a Unique National Patient ID to Improve Care and Cost	Lack of a common unique patient ID contributes to the fragmentation of the current health care system leading to disrupted relationships, poor information flows, and misaligned incentives that combine to degrade quality and increase cost.
Policy Initiative II	Target the Opioid Addiction Crisis	Unintentional drug overdose has become the leading cause of injury-related death in the US. Drug overdose deaths in the United States more than tripled from 1999 to 2015, with over 52,000 drug overdose deaths occurring in 2015 alone.
Policy Initiative III	Invest in Pandemic Preparedness as Integral Part of National Security	Ever-increasing global trade and travel increase the potential for outbreaks of new or resurgent pathogens to turn into epidemics or pandemics. Globalization drives economic growth but also facilitates the spread of contagion.
Policy Initiative IV	Strengthen Public Health as the Foundation of Better Healthcare	Health Data administration and utilization is split across multiple state and local government jurisdictions, and this inefficient structure impedes innovation and lacks a clear point of healthcare.
Policy Initiative V	Advance Medicare & Medicaid Modernization and Cost Containment	Our current health care system is fragmented in a way that leads to disrupted relationships, poor information flows, and misaligned incentives that combine to degrade quality and increase cost.
Policy Initiative VI	Combat the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance	Antimicrobial resistance may be the biggest healthcare threat to mankind and is a harmful consequences of antibiotic over prescription and the development of antibiotic-resistant organism, affecting more than 2 million Americans annually.
Policy Initiative VII	Engage Private Sector Partners for Better Health, Better Care, and Lower Costs	The US spend more per person on health care than most developed countries, yet higher spending is not resulting in better health outcomes for American citizens.