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a real tool, real costs, really informed healthcare consumers.

When we have your Company as a client (e.g. claims data integration), it's pretty simple. A Company gives its employees access to change:healthcare and the Employee…1. Takes 30 seconds (yes, seconds) to sign-up for their secure and confidential account 2. Affiliate their secure account to their claims data3. In less than 20 [...]

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Ferf and Matt making Magic happen

A quick pic of The Ferf and Matt in the office. They're smiling as we push the first significant block of enhancements (many more are coming) to change:healthcare's website look-n-feel.  Nice guys, verrrrrry nice. More importantly, THANKS to the TEAM for making this monumental stride forward!As The Ferf said when looking at [...]

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The Fiscal Health of U.S. Hospitals

Thursday’s Healthpopuli post caught my eye – Hospitals’ fiscal health is eroding. More than 50% of hospitals had a negative margin in Q4 2008. Sounds like the hospitals need wellness and disease management programs to address their ailing health just like patients are getting.
The main reason cited in Healthpopuli for the poor fiscal health is that [...]

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What is a Cloud Agent?

From Read Write Web, a post AND application  that shoud cause a lot of excitement in healthcare and Health2.0 for possibilities in our vertical:
What Twitchboard does is tie together different services on the social web and automates their interactions. Specifically, Twitchboard watches your Twitter stream and notices when you post a URL. It then automatically [...]

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Consumer Directed Healthcare: Alive and Well

Some interesting stats from the big boys on how adoption of CDHP is going. The numbers are not staggering by any means, but it is reflective of the growing trend toward consumers having to take responsibility. The trend will only accelerate as employers shift to move consumer-centric plans.
Most of the larger companies we have spoken [...]

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Helloooooooooooooo Jay. Now hurry up and get down here

[Alert - this post is openly brown-nosing a friend's new venture launch. And I'm glad to do it!]

Super nice and authentic guy Dr. Jay Parkinson, whom i count as a personal friend and all-around good man, is officially opening Hello Health’s first store-front office this evening.  I sincerely wish that Nashville wasn’t so far away [...]

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Our Rates Went Down! No, Up! But Not by Much!!!!

So I just got an e-mail from our insurance company about our health insurance. I just HAD to share it with everyone. Bless their hearts, it takes s o little to get insurance folks excited, like when your premium goes up only a little bit. So here it is…
Robert, it is not often that [...]

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Healthcare – Potentially the Next Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis?

Kudos to the Nashville Business Journal Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Susan Dentzer for her insightful comments on many issues surrounding healthcare at the recent Nashville Healthcare Council gathering.
The attention grabbing headline of her corresponding article about the potential for healthcare to be the next sub-prime mortgage crisis rings true though I’m not sure it can [...]

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Gotta love it when people talk about the dCard.

It is like music to my ears when people talk about the dCard.  In case everyones crazy summer plans have caused you to forget about the alarming physician information inconsistencies… here is a brief reminder, and a great highlight from Nashville Medical News.
“Change:healthcare is also tackling a problem that’s been a bugaboo for physicians since [...]

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Balance Billing

So it would appear that I’m not the only one less than thrilled about the balance billing practices of some hospitals:
Here’s what the WSJ had to say.

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