First announcement

May 10, 2008 – IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Special to Minot Daily News

FORMER MINOT TELEPHONE CONSULTANT FILES PATENT APPLICATION FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE – “MEDICAL ONSHORING” – WITH U.S. PATENT OFFICE

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (May 10, 2008) – Cl. Alex. Chien, formerly a rural economic development staffer with RochesterTel (former owners of Minot Telephone Co.) this week filed a patent application for a medical‑care system designed to reduce U.S. health care costs by at least 15%.

“Having closely studied the economies of Minot and North Dakota, it is my considered opinion that the Minot area would be a prime candidate for the prototype ‘Medical Onshoring’ clinic,” said Chien, now a self-employed engineer. “Technology, transportation, environment – all are excellent in Minot.”

Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing), Chien’s patent-pending application details how – using proprietary technology and Joint Commission International-accredited medical providers, in JCI‑accredited facilities located on the sovereign and quasi-sovereign (self-rule) nation‑lands of the 520 federally‑recognized Native American Indian tribes [1] – quality medical services at affordable prices can be offered to U.S. residents and others. The JCI‑accredited medical providers would be from Asia and Europe; MedOn would also work to improve medical care in those nations.

“Our patent-pending model would supplement existing health care providers,” Chien said. “Our goals are to maximize scarce medical care dollars and provide affordable, quality health care services that are engineered with best practices at the forefront.”

The patent-pending medical-care process model – which Chien coined “Medical Onshoring” -- came in a “flash of insightful inventiveness,” according to Chien, who operates www.MedicalOnshoring.net.

Chien, whose late father/accountant consulted for the Cree Tribe of Canada, said he “could not understand -- in a super-power nation with most of the best physicians in the world – why U.S. residents are flying 12,000 miles overseas to obtain affordable medical treatments.

“I thought there had to be alternatives, that individuals can make a difference,” Chien said.

“I immediately created lab notebooks to document the inventive concept. Now, with this patent-pending system-design, I believe that many things are possible. That includes the newest JCI-accredited treatments, as well as education and training for caring, qualified peoples of the world.”

Bart Stuck, a PhD in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is well-known on Wall Street, has been given a confidential review of the novel, non-obvious “Medical Onshoring” patent-pending model.

Dr. Stuck, who worked with Chien on North Dakota’s state communications network plan in the early 1990s, noted that the patent-pending model relies on global information technology to help assure the highest quality medical care and health care possible.

“I am familiar with Alex’s work in advanced communication networks over a 20-year period, having collaborated together,” said Dr. Stuck, managing director of Signal Lake Management L.L.C. of Westport, Conn. “This current project may offer considerable upside.”

Jeen Kim, an MBA/JD graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (’92) and investment banker with a Top 10 investment bank in New York, has also been given a confidential review of the patent-pending “Medical Onshoring” system-design.

“Based on those patent model drawings, ‘Medical Onshoring’ may have potential for becoming one of the solutions to help resolve the USA’s medical care dilemma,” said Mr. Kim, a graduate of Harvard College. “I am personally familiar with this work.”

Now that the “Medical Onshoring” patent documents are patent-pending with the U.S. Patent Office, the inventors’ group will begin seeking investment capital and key staff on a global basis, Chien said. A founding chief executive officer will also be sought to help lead the launch of a prototype “Medical Onshoring” clinic in Indian County.

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[1] Or any special economic development zone established by federal, state or local government.

© C.A. Chien, 2008.