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https://i.imgur.com/JbbcsUx.jpg 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
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January 25, 2014, 01:14:13 AM |
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Resistant to ASICs
Eh.... no.
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alexvillas
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January 25, 2014, 01:17:21 AM |
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sound good
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CoinBreader
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January 25, 2014, 01:26:47 AM |
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watching this 1
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Joe4782
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January 25, 2014, 01:32:29 AM |
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Sorry - not watching this :-(
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kanus1113
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January 25, 2014, 01:41:40 AM |
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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?
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iarsenaux
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January 25, 2014, 02:00:28 AM |
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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.
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January 25, 2014, 02:05:02 AM |
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Bad name!
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sicktoshi (OP)
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January 25, 2014, 02:33:51 AM |
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Resistant to ASICs
Eh.... no.
Posting 5 seconds after this Pre-Announcement. Should try a little bit of thorough reading next time.
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BitzMD
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January 25, 2014, 03:03:30 AM |
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I'll keep my eye on this one,
BTW i'm also a member of SDN and a PGY1
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gtac01
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January 25, 2014, 03:22:39 AM |
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IN
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standards
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January 25, 2014, 03:47:27 AM |
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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.
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January 25, 2014, 04:06:58 AM |
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keep in mind.
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January 25, 2014, 04:27:22 AM |
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Resistant to ASICs
Eh.... no.
+1. Scrypt is not ASIC resistant anymore.
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sicktoshi (OP)
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January 25, 2014, 04:44:03 AM |
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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.
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January 25, 2014, 04:49:02 AM |
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Healthcare Is One Of The Highest Expenses An Individual Will Pay For During Their Life. Noble Cause,
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CAPT = CQju4V5qhVoQ8TKdMWD1DbmeYbFY74CMF6 ☼ BLOCK = BcEJPXyQQMcyK7QJGW7Fw6ECemyYBqJFPH
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let's make a deal.
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January 25, 2014, 04:50:57 AM |
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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.
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DC2ngEGbd1ZUKyj8aSzrP1W5TXs5WmPuiR wow need noms
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jacquette
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January 25, 2014, 04:59:21 AM |
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Cura > Obamacare
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jorneyflair
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January 25, 2014, 05:13:55 AM |
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Cura > Obamacare
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January 25, 2014, 05:29:56 AM |
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Cura > Obamacare
lol.. Watching this coin. good luck
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