Yisrael M Safeek MD MBA

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. You can purchase the report here.

POLICY	DESCRIPTION	SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM
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.

Yisrael M Safeek, MD, MBA, FACPE

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

Yisrael M Safeek, MD, MBA 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 made the short list for 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.
  Dr. Safeek is the author of the peer-reviewed CAUTI Bundle (published 2010) that is widely utilized, and 12-point “I AM FOR SAFETY” Surgical Checklist (published 2010). 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 after completing a Bachelor of Science degree with a double major in Biology and Chemistry in two and a half years from Austin Peay State University, magna cum laude. He obtained a Master of Business Administration graduating top of his class at the University of Tennessee. He completed his residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Anesthesiology.
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."

the provider privileging bible

other peer-reviewed publications*

*Contents in these sections are not up-to-date. The Publications, Checklists and Best Practices are archived historical materials regarding The SafeCare Group® - “frozen in time” material and not meant as medical advice or expert opinion. They represented practices at the time they were written and may not represent current standard of care. They are included to highlight prior achievements of The SafeCare Group.

Making American Healthcare Great Again