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Healthcare

Planning & Implementation for Healthcare Reform is Like Herding Cats

Image from Mike Moreu
As long as we’re herding cats on healthcare reform, let’s ask a critical question…What is the timing for the changes being made for healthcare reform? Not “when will it get passed” but rather “when will the changes, whatever they end up being, go into effect”?
Logistically, it’s a nightmare.
Healthcare Reform Will NOT be [...]

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Changes in Healthcare Reform – Employers MUST Get Involved!

Senator Jim Cooper (D) of Tennessee has been one of the most prominent politicians traversing the country on the idea of healthcare reform. In his early presentations on the subject, the approach was a hard line push to get universal coverage (covering the uninsured) with NO FOCUS ON CUTTING wasted expense that could have paid [...]

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New Email Alerts from change:healthcare!

Did you know we recently improved our email alerts?  Now, you can choose to receive weekly or monthly Ways to Save alerts and/or Activity updates.  The Ways to Save alerts are sent to you to alert you of ways to save money on your healthcare expenses. When new savings opportunities are identified, we email them [...]

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Eye telescope, literally.

Thought I’d share this article I read in the NY Times this past weekend.  It talks about an “telescope” that can be implanted in a person’s eye to help correct retinal damage caused by advanced macular degeneration.  It has already been approved for use in Europe. FDA approval for use in the states is expected [...]

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Healthcare reform: Where do we stand now?

If you have picked up a newspaper or turned on any news station during recent weeks, I am sure you have heard a lot about President Obama and health care reform. I am also sure that much of what you have heard about has been the lack of any resolve between Democrats and [...]

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How Consumerism Hurts Wellness and Disease Management

Consumerism in healthcare has been hailed by many including ourselves as one of the key components in solving the healthcare crisis in the U.S.
“…one of…”
Pushing cost to the patient is merely the first step. Without transparency, consumerism has the potentially devastating affects on the gains that wellness and disease management have begun to make.
Under Consumer [...]

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37th is better than 149th: Experience working in Kampala, Uganda

Hi all- I’m Sara, the new summer intern at change:healthcare. I’m only two weeks in, but it has been great so far! Katrina asked me to write a blog post about anything my heart desired involving healthcare. So, I’ve decided to share some of my experiences from the last four weeks I spent doing medical [...]

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Your Health Insurance and Network Questions Answered!

Today, change:healthcare had two great health care questions that I thought I should share with the rest of the change:healthcare community.  Remember, we are hear to help and answer your questions… so let us know if we can be of service!
First user question: I had surgery and received a bill for anesthesia. When I called [...]

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Worthwhile convo between Jay Parkinson and Ortho…

I am soooo behind on sharing everything that is going on around me related to healthcare, employers, consumerism, and the proposed government ‘public plan’ for healthcare [I get 2-3 phone calls a week from various system constituents and politicians posing questions, ideas, or plans around healthcare consumerism].  However, what causes me to perk up is [...]

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Guest Post: 5 Factors That Boost the Popularity of Healthcare IT

By: Kat Sanders (more info on the author below)
There was a time when you had to choose between engineering and medicine even though you were equally inclined to both. The situation has undergone a vast change today, and you have common ground between technology and medicine in the form of healthcare IT. Although it is [...]

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