( ̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅ ̲̅]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅ [PRE-ANN] Cura: Proposal to De-centralize Medicine & Healthcare ( ̲̅:̲̅

[sicktoshi]

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Short Summary for Bio’s:

Cura [CUR] is a cryptocurrency introduced with the goal of reducing today’s runaway healthcare cost inflation. It promotes globally decentralized health care by three means: 1) Decreasing insurance corporations’ financial control and  2) Making medicine accessible to everyone 3) Providing a method to control health inflation

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Introduction

Greetings. This is a pre-announcement for Cura, an upcoming cryptocurrency that will tackle the social subjects of telemedicine, insurance, concierge medicine, and automation. It will altogether pave the way for a better decentralized but personalized healthcare system.

Cura is not about innovation of cryptocurrency itself, therefore we have selected Scrypt as the mining algorithm to keep the bar to entry low, and benefit from the large pre-existing community.

Cura is about innovating modern healthcare through cryptocurrency by:
giving the freedom of choice back to the providers and patients,
reducing the influence of insurance companies and breaking their tight grip on providers and patients,
promoting telemedicine around the world in poor, rural, and emerging economy areas,
giving freedom to concierge treatments,
giving incentive to miners that are backing the Cura Network

Cura is where modern medicine and cryptocurrency come together.

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Meaning

Cura, pronounces CURE-RA, is the name of a Roman goddess whose name means "Care" or "Concern" in Latin. The Cura logo depicts Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine. The phrase "Primum non nocere" is the Hippocratic Oath and means “Do no harm”, the most basic tenet of healthcare.

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Motivation

Telemedicine, Insurance, Concierge Medicine for the Poor
                                                        
According to the American Medical Association, telemedicine is the use of electronic information to improve patients’ status [1]. In recent years, with the advancement of computers and electronics, telemedicine has been utilized around the world in rural areas and in developing countries. Whether it’s reading an EKG, evaluating radiologic images, refilling prescriptions, providing surgical consultations or robotic maneuvering, telemedicine is revolutionizing modern healthcare. While telemedicine continues to improve and proliferate, there are still underlying barriers, as telemedicine is mostly conducted between affiliated hospitals, and even less so across global healthcare networks and private providers, mostly due to fiat currency differences and restrictions.

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In the United States alone, there are about 42 million people uninsured [2]. Even for those who have health insurance, there is a surging inflation, well beyond the general inflation, of insurance premium vs. workers’ earnings [3]. Compounding that fact is that hospitals are charging ever-increasing fees on in-patient procedures [4], leading to unsustainable medical costs in the near future. Even in those countries with socialized medicine, while everyone is eligible to be treated, the system can be inefficient and slow due to the large numbers of patients to be treated through a centralized, bureaucratically controlled system.
  
With the increasing inflation and government deficit, graduating healthcare providers are facing insurmountable debts today. Compounding that is the fact that insurance companies are denying more medical claims, forcing some providers to abandon primary care to enter specialized careers or concierge for the riches. In the U.S, Obamacare’s premium plans only create more problems, and gets further from having an adequate solution.

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Freedom To Choose

It is natural that the people should have the right to have their health to be taken care of, not being decided, approved, or restricted by an insurance company just because of their current or previous medical conditions. Everyone should have open access to a health care provider, no matter where they are.  

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Why Use Cura

 Miners <-->Investors <-->Patients <--> Providers, Hospitals and Clinics

Miners: Coin rewards for backing the Cura Network

Investors: For those who are not interested in mining but want to invest and trade Cura

Patients: Will be able to pay for telemedicine via Cura obtained from markets or by contributing to the network and mining them.

Providers: Will be able to receive Cura around the world and carry out telemedicine work. Also will be able to exchange with fiat currency if needed.

3rd parties: Hospitals and clinics. For major in-patient cases, will be able to change their stance due to Cura adoption of patients and providers and decrease their reliance on insurance companies. Therefore, out-of-control health inflation will likely decrease.

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Advantages over other coins:
Scrypt instead of SHA256

- Fast transactions and confirmations
- Affordability
- Some resistant to ASIC hardwares
- Mining friendly to newcomers

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Technical Details

POW: Scrypt
Upper cap: 50 billions
Random block reward
Starting difficulty: 0
Retarget: 180

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Release Date: Soon
Funding: Donation

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Cura Resources:
Github: https://github.com/curaCoin
Website: TBA
Gmail/Google/Youtube: OfficialCuracoin@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Curacoin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Curacoin
Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Curacoin/
Charity: TBA
SDN topics: Pre-Allo http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/pre-ann-cura-proposal-to-de-centralize-medicine-healthcare.1052331/
Reddit topics: http://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1wexrf/cura_proposal_to_decentralizing_medicine/

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Reasons for Supporting Cura

Bringing cryptocurrency to a globalized healthcare
Bridging telemedicine
Supporting concierge medicine for the poor
Funding for future scientific projects
Reducing runaway healthcare inflation
Anonymous Peer to Peer payment
Catering to providers/patients adoption, first as oppose to trying to create speculations and then merchant adoption as with other cryptos.

Future Plan

Lightweight Wallet Client
QR paper wallet / Android Mobile Wallet App  
QR-backend with QR Scanner for Providers’ Office
Establishing nonprofit funding for researching


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Who We Are

Collective dissident of insurance power
Supporters of telemedicine and concierge medicine

Cura References:

[1]Wikipedia: Telemedicine
[2]http://kff.org/uninsured/fact-sheet/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/
[3]http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/ehbs-cumulative-increases-in-health-insurance-premiums-workers-contributions-to-premiums-inflation-and-workers-earnings-1999-2012-healthcosts.png
http://www.ibtimes.com/mit-technology-has-not-helped-lower-us-health-care-costs-contrary-1449656
[4]http://www.ifhp.com/s/2012-iFHP-Price-Report-FINAL-April-3.pdf

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We would love to hear your input. There will be a post on studentdoctornetwork (SDN) for medical students, residents, and attending physicians as well to foster discussions. To lessen the grips of insurance and promotion of concierge medicine, Cura need to be adopted.  More details regarding Cura to follow when the launching is near.  

Also the Cura team is looking for motivated individuals to join Cura or spreading the adoption of Cura. Our team are anonymous individuals are working together on IRC channel freenode. Please send your inquiry to sicktoshi@gmail.com

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[cherominerito]

 Resistant to ASICs


Eh.... no.

[alexvillas]

sound good 

[CoinBreader]

watching this 1

[Joe4782]

Sorry - not watching this   :-(

[kanus1113]

Not understanding the correlation between this coin and healthcare costs, or the benefit over fiat in the telemedicine market. Could you elaborate on the actual solution this coin provides or will provide?

[iarsenaux]

Not understanding the correlation between this coin and healthcare costs, or the benefit over fiat in the telemedicine market. Could you elaborate on the actual solution this coin provides or will provide?

it means that the dev is sick and needs to use cryptocurrency to buy meds.

[maject]

Bad name!

[sicktoshi]

Resistant to ASICs


Eh.... no.

Posting 5 seconds after this Pre-Announcement. Should try a little bit of thorough reading next time.

[BitzMD]

I'll keep my eye on this one,

BTW i'm also a member of SDN and a PGY1

[gtac01]

IN

[standards]

Not understanding the correlation between this coin and healthcare costs, or the benefit over fiat in the telemedicine market. Could you elaborate on the actual solution this coin provides or will provide?

it means that the dev is sick and needs to use cryptocurrency to buy meds.

 

[fallow5]

keep in mind.

[bitbox]

Resistant to ASICs


Eh.... no.

+1.

Scrypt is not ASIC resistant anymore.

[sicktoshi]

Resistant to ASICs


Eh.... no.

+1.

Scrypt is not ASIC resistant anymore.

The terminology still stands. Notice it is not Asic-Proof but Asic-Resistant, offering higher resistant compared to traditional SHA-256. What you meant to say was Scrypt is not Asic-Proof anymore, but it is being resist-ive to some degrees against Asic.

If we are here to argue about the nitpicking details of what is Asic-Resistant, which is not the main topic or reason for this thread, then I suggest we should take a closer look of social issue at hand regarding the declining healthcare system in America and practical application of tele-medicine around the world, and how cryptocurrency can help overcoming barriers. 

[LAHAINA]

Healthcare Is One Of The Highest Expenses An Individual Will Pay For During Their Life.

Noble Cause,
 

[kalus]

reducing the influence of insurance companies and breaking their tight grip on providers and patients,

just FYI, most developed countries except for the US have universal healthcare i.e. "medicaid for all".  

many of the problems you list are not shared by the rest of the world outside the US.  

Many of us outside of USA consider one's health to be an intrinsic human right rather than something that should be paid for individually, out of pocket.  

[jacquette]

Cura > Obamacare

[jorneyflair]

Cura > Obamacare

[dnamicro]

Cura > Obamacare

lol..

Watching this coin. good luck