The Daily Herald featured a story on change:healthcare, My Healthcare Is Killing Me, and Christopher Parks.

The PDF of “My Healthcare Is Killing Me Teaches Consumers Smart Healthcare Tips” can be downloaded here.

The Nashville Business Journal ran an article Friday about change:healthcare!!

With the book prominently featured, the NBJ says, “Nashville technology start-up change:healthcare has stepped into the national spotlight for its efforts to teach consumers how to shop for health care and decipher the language of  health care providers and insurance companies. The company released “My Healthcare Is Killing Me,” a free e-book for consumers overwhelmed by medical bills or in search of health care choices that benefit them.”

“One of the cornerstones of the consumer-based approach is “transparent” access to pricing from hospitals, doctors, insurance companies and other providers so that individuals can make informed choices about their care.”

Check out the full article by downloading the PDF here.

Check out Robert’s story and My Healthcare Is Killing Me featured on CNN’s Empowered Patient.

(Click on the story title in green to view the video!)

Many humble thanks to Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Medical Correspondent. In the latest edition of her Empowered Patient segment, she was kind enough to include us in the article on “6 Ways to Save Money on Drugs and Doctors.” And we’re slated to be included in the  “House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta” at 830 a.m. Saturday and Sunday ET.

As a result, we’ve seen a bit of spike in traffic (and a small amount of smoke issuing from the back of the servers). They also featured our recent book, and we’re getting loads of folks downloading the free PDF version of My Healthcare Is Killing Me.

It’s a wonderful compliment, and let’s be sure the credit goes where it is due. We have a great team that supports change:healthcare. THEY make it happen, while CP and I get the handshakes and backslaps that they all deserve (we’re supposed to just look good, so if you’ve seen the book cover, you know we’re not holding up our end of the deal very well).  And a special shout out to our PR Director, Frank Limpus whose own personal PR is some of the most understated you’ll ever see.

CNN has posted 6 ways to save money on drugs and doctors and change:healthcare and My Healthcare Is Killing Me are included!!!  Check out the short list below, or the full 6 tips on their site.

1. Discount Dental Care

2. Cheaper Contact Lenses

3. Discount Drugs

4. Lower Hospital Bills

5. Even Lower Hospital Bills - “Whether your bill is big or small, it pays to negotiate, negotiate, negotiate with doctors and hospitals. Click here for a free PDF version of the new book “My Healthcare is Killing Me,” which offers tips on negotiating as well as other hints on saving money on health expenses.”

6. A Great Tax Deduction - www.changehealthcare.com can help you “keep track of your expenses, and when they get big enough, the site automatically gives you a report ready for submission to the IRS.”

Download a PDF of the CNN article.

My Healthcare Is Killing Me has been getting a little bit of buzz lately, and it’s good to hear that people are finding the content useful.

Bernard Farrell from the Diabetes Technology Blog says, “While I’m talking about reading, here’s a free book that may be really useful if you’re dealing with the US healthcare system. I just started reading My Healthcare is Killing Me! earlier today and I’ve already got some ideas for better handling myself within our (sometimes challenging) system.”

Thanks Bernard!! We are happy to hear you are finding some useful tips. We would love to hear from other readers (like you), suggestions and criticism are always welcomed as well.

You can find the FREE PDF download at www.myhealthcareiskillingme.com under the heading “Read it”

Looks like we have taken a giant leap into the world of print.  Yes– we have actually done something on paper!!! The crew at change:healthcare has published a book, “My Healthcare Is Killing Me: A Survival Guide for the American Healthcare Consumer.”

You can purchase the book for $16.00 (includes shipping) from www.myhealthcareiskillingme.com or better yet, download the FREE ebook!!

Written by Robert Hendrick, Christopher Parks and Katrina Welty, a trio of authors with a wide background of healthcare experience, the book provides an easy to read, straight-forward guide to navigating healthcare in its current state of confusion and chaos.

“We just want to see consumers take the book, implement its lessons and really help their families live a better life,” Hendrick said.  “Seeing more transparency in this industry and consumers taking greater personal control of their healthcare as a result is all the satisfaction we need.  Because then, we’ll know we’ve truly changed healthcare.”

The book is also available through all major book retailers including Amazon.com, Borders and Barnes and Noble, and others.

Let us know your thoughts… write a rant, review, or tell us your story!!  We look forward to hearing from readers like you!

Visit MyHealthcareIsKillingMe.com for more information!

American consumers who’ve felt confused and uncertain navigating their healthcare and healthcare insurance now have a compass to point them through the morass — a new guidebook that will guide them in simple language through the American healthcare system.

Readers of “My Healthcare is Killing Me:  A Survival Guide for the American Healthcare Consumer,” will find both solace and sound practical advice in its pages.  Written by Robert Hendrick, Christopher Parks and Katrina Welty, a trio of authors with a wide diversity of healthcare experience, the manuscript will make the healthcare and insurance worlds far more understandable and far less daunting for most Americans.

Download the News Release PDF

The proof of our book is in and people have already started to latch onto the free downloadable PDF version at My Healthcare Is Killing Me.

Seems like we might have struck a bit of a nerve.

Thanks so much to Bob Coffield for the shout out on the book. Can’t wait to catch up with him at Health 2.0 in just a few weeks. Bob is a master of Twitter. If you don’t know him, he’s @bobcoffield.

We’ll probably catch a lot of hell from Steven Krein at OrganizedWisdom for not calling it change:healthcare, but we’re working on that as another title and hope to have it out before November .

And many thanks to the others like Frank Hone and “Why Healthcare Matters” and Zane Safrit who have started to pick up on the book.

Recently we have published our healthcare consumer “survival guide” titled My Healthcare Is Killing Me. Though we have only recently received the hands on printed version… the PDF has been available (for FREE) online for about a week or so now. We have not really spoken of it much - we were waiting till we had real copies - but it looks like the cat is out of the bag thanks to Christopher!

So without further ado: Check out My Healthcare Is Killing Me at www.myhealthcareiskillingme.com. As I mentioned above, you can download a free PDF, read it online, or (if you like the real deal - as I do) you can purchase it through this site as well.

And - lets give some love to those individuals that have taken early note of the book…

Thanks to Zane Safrit (check out his post - make sure to scroll down) for writing such nice words.

He says, ” My Health Care is Killing Me is…a well-written resource for those like me, a consumer of our health care system, who look for help and hope as we navigate the maze of players who provide the services and the billing and the restrictions and yes, sometimes, quite often, the excellent care (if you can afford it, find it, negotiate with it…) that make up our health care system.”

Thanks to Frank Hone at the Why Healtcare Matter Blog for taking the time to check out change:healthcare, the Healthcare Consumerism Index and giving My Healthcare Is Killing Me a shout out!

Last but not least, to JenMcCabeGorman for Twittering about MHIKM. I think she may have started something