Simplifying the Business of Health Care Blog

Touring the Innovation xChange for Healthcare Simplification Ideas

Some recently submitted ideas from the ChangeNow4Health Community under the category of Simplifying the Business of Health Care

Simplifying Consumer Driven Plans

Plans and Employers not taking the right steps are supplying consumer plan critics ammunition

What Thought Leaders are Saying

Blogging Live from the World Health Care Congress 2008 in Washington, DC

Change via The Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Agenda

Blogging Live from the World Health Care Congress 2008 in Washington DC

The Medical Home: A solution to simplifying and improving health care?

The formula for the new Medical Home: Personal Primary Care Coordination + Clinician Health Coaches + Centralized Electronic Health Records + Evidence Based Medicine & Standards + Changes in Primary Care Reimbursement

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned 20 months and 477 Innovation Blogs Ago

A guest blog from noted health care author and thought leader Doctor Richard L. Reece

The state of e-Visits in 2008

Simplifying healthcare through a web visit has been elusive, but is now a growing reality

Measuring Consumer and Professional HIT adoption and perceptions

iHealthBeat's Data Points provides a great resource for recent survey summaries

Simplification vs. Choice

Now and in the past, a number of Benefit Managers and Benefit Consultants have advocated offering just one health plan to employees, with simplification one of the goals, while employees want a choice of plans. Survey data shows single plan offerings are increasing with larger employers.

PHR Interoperability: Winning Hearts and Minds

Is Microsoft seeing the light?

Health Care Inflation Is Globalized

Watson Wyatt Survey Results Indicate the U.S. is now in the middle of the pack, inflation wise

Even California MDs aren't wired enough

Electronic Health Records and other key Health Information Technology applications are crucial towards simplifying and improving health care, but adequate physician adoption remains elusive

ChangeNow4Health Podcasts

Check out these ChangeNow4Health Podcast Interviews

Dr. Mark Fendrick and Value-Based Insurance Design

The World of VBID according to Mark Fendrick and the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design

More comments from the community

Some more comments received from members recently joining the community

Crossing State Lines

Rep. John Shadegg's crusade to allow interstate commerce in health insurance plans

Comments from the Community so far -

A sampling of comments received from some of you at the time you joined the community

Interview with CAQH on Simplification

Listen to a 22 minute interview with Robin Thomashauer and Gwen Lohse from the Council for Affordable, Quality Healthcare

Interview with Dianne Kiehl from the Business Group on Health

A 20 minutes interview with the Executive Director on the Business Group on Health, in Wisconsin

Interview with Availity CEO

Listen to a ten minute interview with Julie Klapstein, President and CEO of Availity

Simplification Success Story: An Interview with Robin Thomashauer and Gwen Lohse of CAQH

CAQH has simplified and set the standard for provider credentialing, and now is tackling administrative transactions

Welcome to RHIO

What's a RHIO you ask? How can they simplify health care? And why are they in trouble?

Tackling Administrative Simplification at Humana: An Interview with CEO Mike McCallister

What’s going on at Humana, one of the nation’s largest health plans, in respect to dealing with the administrative complexities of health care

Employers to Health Care Vendors: Integrate

Large employers typically use a multitude of health care vendors to serve their employee populations. Employers are upping the pressure on their vendors to better integrate their flow of information and services.

State of Simplification in the State of Washington

The Washington Healthcare Forum’s mission is to streamline and simplify healthcare financing and delivery, and advance a public dialogue

CORE: Join the Revolution

CORE: the Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange, as part of CAQH (the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare) has launched a promotional campaign aimed at industry stakeholders to "Join the Revolution"

CORE: Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange

The web site from CAQH (the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare) dedicated to simplyfying patient adminsitrative data exchange

Not much to brag about

The DHHS web page on administrative simplification is very telling

Opening the Vault

The muscle of Microsoft is behind HealthVault. But the power of partnerships will be needed to deliver on its promise.

Microsoft Rolls Out Personal Health Records

New York Times article on Microsoft's new HealthVault, which has significant potential for simplifying health care

Benchmarking Health Plan Convenience

NCQA measures and rates health plans on service and convenience factors

Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition

The coalition web site, which includes provider organizations, health plans, government and employers as members. The coalition's objective is to reduce administrative cost and complexity in healthcare.

Simplify Now: Cutting Health Care's Red Tape White Paper

A three page white paper addressing health care simplification

It's not always so simple to simplify

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