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 ChangeNow4Health News  January 2008

What's going on with the ChangeNow4Health Initiative and Communities

ChangeNow4Health, a broad, open, online community committed to improving health care through immediate action has been formed to help create, share and incubate realistic solutions that address necessary changes to the nation’s health care system. This newsletter will help keep you current on what's going on with ChangeNow4Health. 

Online Communities
Currently ChangeNow4Health offers three online communities:

Helping Consumers Make Smarter Health Care Decisions: 
http://community.changenow4health.com/blogs/smarter/blog 
  
Simplifying the Business of Health Care:
http://community.changenow4health.com/blogs/simplify/blog 

Preventing Sickness and Maintaining Health
http://community.changenow4health.com/blogs/prevent    

How to get Involved

Recent Blog Articles
You can subscribe to an RSS feed for new ChangeNow4Health blog posts at http://community.changenow4health.com/news/aggregator/RSS 

1/2/2008: Crossing State Lines - Rep. John Shadegg's crusade to allow interstate commerce in health insurance plans More »

12/19/2007: Value-Based Insurance Design: Does It Push Consumers Out Of The Healthcare Equation? - Value-Based Insurance Design: Cutting co-pays for "high-quality" procedures and medications sounds like a great idea, but does it crowd out the consumer? More »

12/15/2007: Health Gaming: What Qualifies as Success ? - Games hold great potential for health promotion, especially for younger generations. Yet much of this potential is yet to be tapped. What are the opportunities and challenges? More »

12/13/2007: Comments from the Community so far - A sampling of comments received from some of you at the time you joined the community More »

12/11/2007: 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 More »

12/11/2007: Welcome to RHIO - What's a RHIO you ask? How can they simplify health care? And why are they in trouble? More »

12/10/2007: 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 More »

12/7/2007: Yes, Eating Healthy Is Not Cheap - We encourage people to eat healthy, but what do we do if they can't afford to? More »

12/6/2007: Health Reward Programs: How To Make Them Work? - Point programs that incent healthy behavior, prevention and wellness could be key to making America healthier. More »

Idea Submissions
There are now 20 ideas submitted from the community. Review them, and submit your own ideas at:
http://community.changenow4health.com/community/ideas

Learn More
Click to view downloads including white papers and powerpoint presentations, and read about real world examples of success stories, all from the home page at: http://www.changenow4health.com
 


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