Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Software engineer Arion Hardison announced he was building the digital infrastructure for a national Medicare for All program (https://medicare.dev/), starting with phase one: a population health management tool released for HHS and patient use. Medicare.dev initiates the process of providing a single-payer, managed healthcare system to communities by first creating a solid HHS/health-and-wellness infrastructure. This will allow local public health and social services organizations to begin networking and connecting via a national provider database. "I've been very interested in the concept of Medicare for All for a while now, and I haven't seen anyone making progress with it – so I just started to build it," said Hardison. "My number one goal is to provide a public health utility system that everyone can use. Medicare.dev is based on three core tenets: Patient Focus, Evidence Based practice, and Single Payer. By Patient Focus, I mean the doctor is lending expertise, but not dictating every aspect of the patient's care. Patients are given multiple options for their care, rather than just following directions. The second tenet is Evidence Based: all providers on the network, both licensed and unlicensed, have evidence or expertise to support the positions that they hold. Essentially, their practice and service directly leads to improved clinical health outcomes."