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Wellness Programs Can Help Small Businesses Reduce Healthcare Costs
Wall Street Journal has a great overview of how small businesses can save on healthcare costs by promoting wellness
Maggie Mahar: “Runaway Health Care Inflation Is The Elephant In The Middle Of The Room”
With a significant minority of Americans forgoing needed medical treatment because of cost concerns, health inflation may become a more significant issue for Americans than the uninsured. Maggie Mahar, a noted progressive writer, discusses the merits of a health reform plan that would sharply reign in costs and give consumers responsibility for spending their own health care dollars.
PwC puts a price tag on waste in healthcare spending
Pricewaterhouse Coopers estimates up to $1.2 trillion from identified health care waste, which they've classified into three "wastebaskets."
Electronic Medical Records: DOA?
Cost is a major barrier to widespread physician adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs). What's your take, are EMRs DOA? If so, what will be the impact on consumers?
Administrative Simplification Conference 2008
Health Care Professionals Can Register at No Cost
Idea Highlight: Interactive Prevention Seminars for General Public
Innovation xChange submission proposes stepped up prevention education for the public, using interactive technology
An Idea From The Community: Pay For Hospitals’ “Standing Costs”
As hospital costs continue to rise, one community member diagnosis the problem and offers his prescription: subsidize hospitals’ “standing costs.” Could reducing hospital costs reduce premiums for those with preexisting conditions?
As Massachusetts Universal Healthcare Plan Struggles, Debate Over Consumer-Driven Healthcare Heats Up
Massachusetts' ambitious universal healthcare plan has run into a number of problems -- many of them related to costs. In an effort to control expenses, some suggest consumer-driven healthcare may be an answer.
CAQH CORE Simplification Initiative Presses Forward
Like a major party presidential candidate leading the pack, CAQH continues to ring up organizational endorsements and the equivalent of delegates and superdelegates via vendors adopting their certification standards, as CAQH moves forward to “clinch” setting an industry standard
New PHR Platforms: Could They Help Promote Wellness Applications?
Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault go beyond traditional PHR by welcoming 3rd party extensions. Could this help create a new wave of wellness applications?
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
What Role Does Faith Play In Consumer-Driven Healthcare?
Faith is a major component of many Americans' lives. Given this, what role should it play in consumer-driven healthcare?
Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index: Linking Health and Happiness
A newly released research report puts some hard numbers on how health is related to happiness in America.
Simplifying Consumer Driven Plans
Plans and Employers not taking the right steps are supplying consumer plan critics ammunition
New Law Could Open Genetic Testing Floodgates, But At What Cost?
Congress passed a law making it illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to people seeking individual policies based on their genetic test results. This ruling make genetic testing more widespread, but what will be the consequences?
Prevention & Wellness @WHCC: Connecting Health and Happiness
The 5th World Health Care Congress featured several interesting presentations about improving health, not just delivering care.
Your Health Reform Ideas: Keep Them Coming!
We have been receiving lots of great ideas since the Innovation xChange was announced earlier this week. We express our appreciation and invite community feedback on an intriguing idea.
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
