Category Archives: health insurance

Remote Patient Monitoring will Lead Value-Based Healthcare

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

Traditional health insurance reimbursement to providers (though payment is a more appropriate word) for healthcare services and products is at the root of our healthcare crisis.  Our traditional fee for service system in the USA rewards hospitals and providers for … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Self-Insured Companies Need Mobile Health

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

According to 2011 research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute,  workers for companies with self-insured health plans make up 58.5% of workers with health coverage compared to 40.9% in 1998. The increase has been consistent over time. This percentage varied … Continue reading →

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Measuring the ROI of Digital Health Technologies

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

     Alere’s purchase of Medapps prompts me to discuss a question posed to me daily, “What is the ROI of digital health technologies?”  Discussants in the Digital Health Linkedin Group were surprised at the purchase price of ‘no greater … Continue reading →

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Patient Portal Adoption

Posted on December 14, 2012 by

Wikipedia defines patient portals as “…healthcare-related online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers. Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone websites and sell their services to healthcare providers. Other portal applications are integrated into the existing web … Continue reading →

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The Healthcare Cliff

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

The term ‘fiscal cliff’ is one familiar to most Americans and many outside observers of this periodic political posturing around the need to address hardcore financial issues facing the country.  If both political parties hashed out their differences and came … Continue reading →

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Why Payers are Critical to mHealth Adoption

Posted on December 2, 2012 by

     In previous posts I have talked about the importance of some of the major stakeholders in mHealth adoption (Physicians, non-physician providers,hospitals, and caregivers) in mHealth adoption. For a few reasons insurers will also play a pivotal role in … Continue reading →

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Five Healthcare Facts Both Candidates Can Agree on: Implications for Digital Health Tech

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

The current presidential campaign, in  major part due to the entrance of Paul Ryan into the campaign, has propelled the cost of healthcare (versus a general discussion of the ACA) into the limelight.  While this is not a bad thing, … Continue reading →

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Five Creative and Necessary Ways of Getting Medical Apps Adopted

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

Medical apps will likely become an important healthcare tool.  Once barriers such as reimbursement and regulatory issues are fully addressed there are many ways in which app developers and their commercial partners can penetrate the healthcare market.  However, there are … Continue reading →

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Five Technologies to Benefit Most from the SCOTUS Decision

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

The SCOTUS decision regarding the ACA will bring millions of more covered lives into the healthcare system.  There is no debate that this will significantly increase the cost of healthcare.  This creates a more pressing need for cost-saving technologies. In … Continue reading →

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Five Ways the SCOTUS Decision on ACA Will Affect mHealth

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

          The upholding of the majority and key points of the ACA by the Supreme Court was a monumental step in changing healthcare in the USA.  It is reform.  It is not the creative destruction that is necessary in … Continue reading →

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