Now available as a complimentary download from HealthSparq, this April 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Case Study: Regence Cracks the Transparency Code, looks at best practices in healthcare transparency solutions as created by HealthSparq’s core leadership team.
Not enough providers are talking to patients about healthcare choices, costs for services and quality of care. At HealthSparq, we empower the conversation. Learn why consumer healthcare transparency solutions are so important.
Consumers need to be able to measure provider quality and compare prices for healthcare services. We provide an online shopping experience they can use via their help plan website. Our health plan customers represent 30 million members, and growing.
With years of experience developing, implementing and refining healthcare transparency solutions, our leadership team is passionate about driving change and developing innovative online shopping solutions.
I’ve attended HIMSS conferences for over two decades as I worked to improve IT for healthcare professionals. But this is the first year I’ve attended HIMSS representing HealthSparq and the insurer & employer organizations that we serve.
As a conference veteran, I had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of colleagues at this year’s conference about issues in health IT. As in the past several years the prevalent theme that arose at HIMSS13 in March was Keep Reading…
Consumers are historically insulated from the true cost of their health care. As a result, they are not used to thinking about the cost and quality of the health care services they receive. But the reality today is that health care premiums are rising faster than inflation by a factor of 3 to 1. Health care costs are hitting consumers in their pocketbooks, and consumers are starting to pay attention.
Skyrocketing health care costs have also forced employers to evolve in their approach to health care. The past 10 to 15 years have seen a dramatic increase Keep Reading…
Empowering patients is a powerful idea, one that has been discussed more and more as our healthcare system falls under scrutiny from the government and the public. We all seem to agree that the system is broken, and it only makes sense to shift some of that responsibility and empower the patients. We may have been “trained” by our interactions with the healthcare system to be passive consumers, but asking questions and taking responsibility for our own physical and financial health encourages better care from our doctors and hospitals and has the added benefit of putting patients in the driver’s seat.
HealthSparq was formed around the idea of patient empowerment. Our solutions are created to engage patients in their own care by giving them access to features more typical of the online shopping experience: cost and quality information, peer reviews and expert support. And if recent news and reports are any indication Keep Reading…
