About six weeks away from its market debut, ONPASSIVE has created a marriage between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and medicine which, it says, would give doctors more income, reduce their work load, improve their efficiency and make patients pay less for medical services.
Dr Kianor Shah, rated by the Doctor to Doctor community as one of the topmost 100 doctors worldwide, will drive the revolutionary plans of this company to make AI demolish old ideas in the practice of medicine and set up brand new models in their places.
The ONPASSIVE plan for a new age medicine and Dr Kianor Shah were introduced to 1.4 million O founders of the company at a September 19, 2022 global webinar of the company which featured Mr Ash Mufareh its founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
The O founders are first line or first generation customers of the company.
Mr Ash Mufareh promised last week to address Nigerian O founders sometime this month as the company moves towards global products launch next month.
Mr. Mufareh and other speakers at the September 11 webinar said the practice of medicine was corrupt, sluggish, inefficient compared with what it could be, needlessly expensive and too often meddled with by middle man agents which included insurance companies and government departments.
The rot in medicine includes the BIG PHARMA, many people say. These are the giant multinational pharmaceutical companies. They design the curricular of medical schools. That is, they decide the medicine that medical students will learn and their teachers and professors will teach. The BIG PHARMA also decides, which drugs to produce for different diseases. They force these drugs down the throats of doctors, even when the drugs have dangerous side effects. One such drug is the chemotherapy drug. Doctors know that the survival rate in chemotherapy is low. But do they have a choice? The BIG PHARMA controls their bosses who compile the essential drug list of their hospitals or the national pharmacopeia. We witnessed this recently in the global response to COVID-19.No allowance was given to traditional medicine or to nutrition. In fact, many medical schools hardly teach nutrition and many doctors know next to nothing about nutrition.
Dr Ray Strand confessed to this in his book ” “What Your Doctor Does Not Know About Nutrition May Be Killing You”(A link to a review of this book will be provided on request). Dr Strand’s wife, Elizabeth, was dying. She had no energy to brush her teeth. Dr Strand exhausted the drugs BIG PHARMA offered him. In the end, he condescended to using food supplements a friend of his wife brought to her. And, lo and behold, she was cured!
Dr Strand began to study nutritional medicine on his own, and the knowledge of it he acquired formed the basis for his book.
BIG PHARMA holds medicine down in several ways, it is said. They set up medical conferences and sponsor leading doctors to them, to either present professional papers on their work and to report clinical breakthroughs with their drugs. Even when a patient may do better on some form of medicine, many doctors prefer to be faithful to the essential drug list of their hospitals and to BIG PHARMA.
The food and drug authorities in many countries are also seen as clog in the wheel of medicine. The appointment of its members are not without powerful influences in the pharmaceutical drug industry. Then, there are government departments, taxation on the business of medicine, and insurance claims to consider.
Demolishing this traditional model and setting up a new model may not be an easy task. But Mr Mufareh believes, as in everything else, that it is possible. Maybe what gives him confidence is Shah, the doctor who would drive the revolution. For he is a doctor eminently qualified for the task.
Google describes Shah as follows: “Dr. Kianor Shah is a practising Dentist and an Entrepreneur from Southern California. As a travelling healthcare provider, Dr. Shah has practised in more than 300 offices. As a businessman, Dr. Shah has built numerous co-brand, private label, and Peer-to-Peer partnerships in the Healthcare Industry.’’
Dr. Shah completed his undergraduate studies at Western Illinois University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in 2000. He graduated in 2006 with a Doctorate in Dental Medicine from Southern Illinois University. He went on to complete an MBA at Brandman University in International Business in 2016. His participation as a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, Fellow of the California Implant Institute, and Fellow of the International Academy of Dental-Facial Esthetics has culminated in his Mastership and Diplomate status of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. Shah has been in various roles as a founder, owner, Chairperson, CEO, President, Managing Director, Partner, Associate, and Consultant for various domestic and international related business matters.
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In addition to his expertise practising General Dentistry, Shah practises Prosthodontics, Periodontics, Endodontics, Pedodontics, Orthodontics, and Oral Surgery. Dr. Shah reads, writes, and speaks English, German, and the Farsi languages. Says Dr. Shah, “A dentist is a lifetime professional commitment. Part artist, part architect, part entrepreneur, part physicist, part surgeon, part businessman, part therapist, and part community friend.”
Dr. Shah enjoys world travel, public speaking, studying and researching historical events, and participating in sports, including soccer, table tennis, and fitness. “I love the look on a patient’s face when he or she looks in the mirror post-smile design, and witnessing the emergence of a new-found confidence. The value in that cannot be measured by numbers.”
“O-HEALTH”
It is still unclear what the onpassive health application will be called. Personally, I think of “O”- health or “O”-med or “O”- medicine. Whatever it is, the project has room for natural medicine, my passion. The hint of this is in the statement that, from some locations across the globe, ONPASSIVE would produce physical products and bio available medicines which would not be polluted by chemical substances. This sounded like an indirect reference to pharmaceutical drugs.There would be four laboratories to power this initiative. This will be for gathering and processing data. An other two laboratories would be for the production of those physical products.
“O-BLESS”
This is a pet project of Mr Mufareh, like O-cademy. He again spoke passionately for both. “O”-bless is a fund-raiser window through which hope is to be brought to the hopeless among suffering mankind. As Mr Mufareh prepares to address Nigerian “O” founders, I wonder about what may happen if each of the 1.4 million “o”- founders contribute U.S. $1 through “o”- bless to Nigeria’s flood victims.Will a huge impact not be made in the introduction of the company to this country?
“O”-cademy
I have shared this idea with my friends in the universities. It is “a global university of sort where professors and lecturers may earn between N10 million and N30 million monthly, depending on their acumen, rather than going on strike for more government funding yearly.
ONPASSIVE has sought the participation of about 1,600 universities globally. Not all students will be in the classroom. These universities will teach on-line and award degrees to deserving students. The world is changing. So are the ways of doing everything. ONPASSIVE says it is set to change the world. If the world of medicine changes, can that of education not? Can a professor of African History at the University of Lagos, for example, not expand the student audience from 100 in Lagos to one million globally, and getting paid by all of them who read his instructional materials, not earn millions of naira monthly? The address of Nigerian “O” founders by Mr Mufareh at this time is right on the mark … Nigeria needs philanthropists who can help to lift many citizens out of poverty and misery. So, is there a great need to pull our university teachers by the shirt collar and tell them the age of depending on the government has gone for good worldwide and that a new world order in education has arrived in Nigeria? A link to my article on “o” -cademy and the Nigerian university lecturers and professor will be forwarded on request.
Next month, ONPASSIVE will make a global market debut with four applications like other applications that will follow them.These four are said to be so superior than the corresponding brands they will compete with by no fewer than three years market edge. This means that it will take competing brands at least three years to catch up on performance, cheap price and several benefits. By that time, says Mr Mufareh, these products would have upscaled to a new top.The four products the market is expecting are O- mail, O-net, O-connect and O-trim.
O-mail is in the market of G-mail. It will be free. O-net is in the market of Facebook. It will be free. Where Facebook allows no more than 5000 friends on the user’s accounts, O- net will accommodate about one million. O – connect is like Zoom. It will not be free. Where Zoom accommodates not more than 50,000 persons in a conference, O-connect is limitless. O-trim is an application for making and sharing links. It will make links shorter, faster and easier to forward.