By Dr. Eric I. Mitchell Tele-Well Being is a “design model” for a new healthcare delivery system for on-the-go travelers.  Its design is made up of utility and significance.  The utility, the need for healthcare, is a very important part of America because of our large senior population that’s taking shape worldwide. The other part of the design equation is called the significance part of design. Design is a word that has grown out of America’s post WWII abundance. Dr. Daniel H. Pink, the author of four provocative, bestselling books on the changing world of work and a left-brain number cruncher, denotes that once the utility of an object is met, then the second part of design moves in, which becomes the model’s significance, to the end user. We all know that health is so important and traditional medicine usually only offers a solution when we get sick.  This new design model of Tele-Well Being is to answer the significance part of the healthcare equation, “how do we keep from getting sick in the first place?”  How do we maintain our well-being? Many people will not travel because of fear of being outside the reach of their medical provider, if they get sick or have a condition. The new equation is, how do we keep in touch with our health provider to stay well and control that condition? The answer to this on-the-move society is Telehealth via your anywhere Cyber Visit. Creating a more efficient, convenient and potentially more cost-effective delivery of care and well-being must be the prime reason for this article.  Enabling more informed decisions, making and enhancing quality of care will depend greatly on access to bandwidth, which is a given for this model. With the increase in bandwidth from cell providers to fiber optic companies, bandwidth is here and becoming global. We have become an on-the-go society, with planes trains and buses. Telehealth is the perfect travel companion, but you, the consumer, must request it because we as providers are still a little stuck in the post-industrial revolution of “call for an appointment and come to my office.” I am a Baby Boomer who did all the right things that my parents told me to do. I had to get good grades, go to college, get a good job and buy a house.  Then wait for retirement! I did all of the above and then some. I went on to medical school and became a doctor.  I was trained with the standard formulae of treatment of disease, not prevention of disease.  In fact, I had little or no preventive medicine or nutrition as I attended an Ivy League Medical school two scores ago. But who’s counting?  As we Boomers love to say, “I am not young any more, but I am not yet old.”  We just have to find how to take out the negative space so our picture can become clear. The main challenge in care for your health today stems from differences between the thought processes of nurses/doctors and engineers. Engineering education is by numbers, graphs and grids, whereas medical education is all by colors, pictures, shapes and visual inspection. Clinicians think in terms of lists, and rule out one by one to reach a decision: its intuitive thinking from the right side of the brain. One number or a set of numbers must be added to this complex structure called the human body and only then can the state of well-being be made.  I have called this Tele-Well-Being. E-mails and cell phones are being used to increase access to healthcare, but the right brain is being left out of the picture when this occurs. A look-em-in-the-eye component must be included in every definition of the word “TeleHealth.” The early 1970’s TV show, the “Jetson’s,” used telehealth in their space-age lifestyle. Today, jet-set lifestyles can take some lessons for the cartoons on our Tele-Well Being. We can now “tune in” with both the left and right sides of our brain in the equation, with real-time video that can promote your tele-well being. We just can’t “beam me up Scotty,” yet! About Dr. Eric I. Mitchell At present, Dr. Mitchell is the President /CEO of a budding telehealth company, TelMed Group.  Telehealth is not new to Dr. Mitchell, for he has a 20-history in this type of healthcare delivery system. Early innovation in this delivery system was gained via the United States Army dating back to the early 1980’s, creating a video medical connection that transverses the chasm between the institution of medicine and our home. His plight is to unite and bridge these two locations with quality healthcare outcomes as the common objectives.  He is using his clinical background and his world-wide technical knowledge to develop an answer to our impending healthcare disaster. Dr. Mitchell has worked to combine leadership with strategic vision.  He has taken multiple organizational structures (hospitals, Army Commands 06, Occupational Medical Centers) to the highest level with innovative intrinsic thinking and directional objectives. This has been accomplished by the willingness to take calculated risks for the potential and expected gains.