Payers and providers have been at war since the 1980s, when employers concerned about rising health benefit costs pushed payers to ramp up efforts to control provider pricing. Payers’ efforts lost traction after five to 10 years, and healthcare costs continued to rise rapidly. But the battle lines were drawn, and payers and providers continue to have deep divisions that evoke the 30 Years’ War between Lutherans and Catholics.
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Joe Caiati describes a text shot as “slightly more than a tweet, but not as long as a blog post.” Users put text shots into Twitter by attaching a photo of an iOS Note, or similar, to a tweet. And thus a medium is born. Plus, it’s a nicely punchy idea.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich doesn't think Obamacare should be repealed, and congressional Republicans who say they want to repeal it really don't want to either, he told a Washington, D.C. health conference Wednesday.
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Better member engagement helps payers cut healthcare costs, but knowing how to engage with members can be tricky.
The wrong terminology turns people off; few consumers can define accountable care organization or narrow network, for example. In other cases, good intentions fall flat; carefully curated quality metrics may mean less when choosing a primary care physician than, say, weekend office hours or a receptionist who speaks fluent Spanish.
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Big data, interoperability, and patient engagement were the topics of discussion during one of the opening keynote sessions at the World Health Care Congress held March 22-25 in Washington, DC.
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To what extent has data analytics begun to really help facilitate transformation in healthcare? The question is far from an abstract one, and elicited a wide range of opinions at a panel that took place Monday at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. as the first full day of the World Health Care Congress + Exhibition got underway.
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The 11th Annual World Health Care Congress, April 7-9, 2014 in Washington, D.C., is pleased to announce J. Knox Singleton, CEO of Inova Health System and Inova CFO Richard Magenheimer, will be a featured keynote presenters and address how partnerships and collaborations are driving the health care business model forward.
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Philadelphia—“If you build it, they will come” might work for fantasy baseball fields but it is probably not a good tactic for developing a real-world medical hub. A better strategy is to have a clear game plan, according to Douglas Bock, who spoke recently at the Patient Solution Services and Hub Design meeting.
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More than a hundred Front Range Community College students and staff in the first two weeks of the fall semester have joined a statewide movement to improve their health.
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Today, 3Pound HealthTM announced the full commercial release of EucoTM, a patient-engagement platform designed to expand the reach and impact of clinician-managed health and wellness programs.
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On the 3 days of WHCC 2014 The e-Performance team detected 1,872 mentions throughout social media coming from executives and experts in the healthcare industry, but these had the potential to reach 4 million people. These posts and comments on social media serve as a good source in order to understand what the industry trends are. At the top of the industry’s concerns is ‘Technology and Big Data’ and ‘Consumer Engagement’.
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Participants also may earn rewards for maintenance — losing the weight, keeping it off and weighing in once every 90 days. Personalized coaching through phone or email interaction is available upon on enrollment, and participants will receive emails and text messages, along with a daily meal plan, a weekly grocery shopping list and a daily workout plan, including strength and cardio.
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A theme that emerged at World Congress’ Second Annual Summit on The Evolving Role of Medical Affairs and Thought Leader Engagement in an Era of Transparency, held in Philadelphia from May 20 to 21, is that medical affairs teams face universal challenges — regardless of whether they’re housed within large Top 50 drug makers, small specialty biotechs or medical device companies.
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Last week's World Congress Second Annual Summit on The Evolving Role of Medical Affairs and Thought Leader Engagement in an Era of Transparency highlighted compliance challenges facing medical affairs departments.
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6 May 2014
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Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This educational resource is the third in a series of co-sponsored documents by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), the leading health law educational organization...
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