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A sales “rock star” joins change:healthcare

Page Thompson Joins change:healthcare inc.
October 23, 2007 Nashville, TN -
Christopher Parks and Robert Hendrick, co-founders of change:healthcare, announce Page Thompson as Director of Sales. Page will be responsible for generating new customers and developing new channels of business for the company’s existing services MedBillManager and FindYourDoc.
Page Thompson, Director of Sales
Page will focus on developing [...]

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OrganizedWisdom is changing its approach and Users ensure that it continually improves

ok… I am NOT one to shill, or schmooze, or suck-up. Just not in my blood. So i will be the first one to point out that I think of Unity and Steve of OrganizedWisdom as friends and as smart entrepreneurs. Some of the health2.0 community have given the new OW approach [...]

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We’re going to SF with good news!

Well, there is so much to announce but we haven’t caught our breath yet as we are getting ready for the San Francisco Health2.0 conference and the past several week’s multiple endeavors… of which one thing that i can mention briefly is that we finalized and have found a tremendous partner, Solidus Company here in [...]

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MedBillManager in the WSJ (Wall Street Journal) and helping people with medical bills…

Thank you, thank you to Mr. lawton and team at the WSJ for highlighting MedBillManager and change:healthcare in a very supportive and lengthy article. We certainly appreciate the recognition and comparison of MedBillManager to MySMC, Revolution Health, WebMD, and Intuit… BUT the more important value of the article is that the mass media is beginning [...]

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US healthcare – like putting an electric fence collar on a dog and setting ‘em loose

As the team this evening was reviewing how the new UI launch went and the next list of features to add, we found ourselves embroiled in a philosophical discussion (e.g. heated debate) as to the “state” healthcare consumerism. Seeing the following post from Kaiser’s newsfeed about the U.S.’s ever increasing percentage of expense attributed toward [...]

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I’ve been “outed” like Fake Steve Jobs by the nashville business journal

I’ve been “outed” like Fake Steve Jobs. OK, maybe I’m not as glamorous a story as the unveiling of who the real blogger was behind the “Fake” Steve Jobs blog – but now there is no hiding the fact that change:healthcare is moving forward and i can officially step out of the shadows from [...]

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May i shoot somebody? The first employer to email me will be free

I have been shouting from the roof-tops for the past year, and it seems that finally a study comes out that validates EXACTLY what we are accomplishing with MedBillManager.
A-freak’n-men!
Communication, Information Tools Critical to Success of Consumer-Directed Health Plans, Watson Wyatt and RAND Corporation Study Finds
PR Newswire
August 07, 2007 WASHINGTON Most employers that offer a consumer-directed [...]

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They’re outta school, so let them fend for themselves

Obviously, my title is intended to be sarcastic… 30% of the uninsured are 19 to 29 years old… sad. Simply sad. Also, i know that i thought of myself as invincible back when i was that age… but i also think that when confronted with the hefty premium cost of an individual policy vs. taking [...]

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Out with old and kinda in with the new

Many years ago (ahem, i do mean many as in 1995) while working at a hospital… there was a growing sense that hospitals/providers needed to adopt more of a “hospitality” mentality such as Marriott or Disneyworld. As dept. directors, we were encouraged to blend our annual plans for JCAHO review with an increase focus on [...]

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Mike Simonsen is a freak’n genius… a lesson for health2.0 start-ups

I had to bookmark and capture this terrific post on Found+Read by Mike Simonsen that addressed in a simple sentence what Health2.0 start-ups need to do in order to validate their service development ideas [and quite frankly, we haven't done a great job of this either... but we will NOW].
Mike writes:
Everyone founder knows they need [...]

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