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What does it cost? HealthSparq’s healthcare shopping trends report

June 21, 2016 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

What does it cost? HealthSparq’s healthcare shopping trends report

Patients with comprehensive private health insurance coverage often do not pay full charges because insurance companies negotiate better payment rates for their policy holders. For the consumer shopping for healthcare, the first challenge is the right health plan and coverage, ...

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Filed Under: 3, e-patient, healthcare innovation, mHealth, Patient Engagement Tagged With: healthcare shopping tools, healthcare shopping trends, HealthSparq, price transparency, shopping for healthcare

Transparency in healthcare: it’s time

February 2, 2016 By Michelle Ronan Noteboom 2 Comments

transparency | noun | the quality of being done in an open way without secrets We live in a world where we’ve come to expect answers to all our questions with a quick Google search. Want to find a nearby walk-in clinic? Wondering what the rash on your arm might be? The Internet ...

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Filed Under: Health care Tagged With: costs of care, price transparency

Data Stories are Told Over Years, Not Minutes

May 1, 2014 By Leonard Kish Leave a Comment

You recall when the “Bitter Pill” story came out? That was in February 2013, just over a year ago. At the time I wrote about “lighting the dark corners of health information” saying that some transparency, any transparency, is a really good place to start. Since then, we’ve seen ...

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Filed Under: Health care, healthcare innovation, Healthcare IT Tagged With: bitter pill, chargemaster, CMS, data, Medicare, price transparency

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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