Some of you, who have been faithful lo these years, remember that I used to spend some time talking about the lack of price transparency in health care as being one of the main drivers of expensive health care. The Times has this excellent article on the matter: Survey Finds High Fees Common in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Healthcare Markets'
Health care needs a better experience
June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Healthcare Markets, Usability
Forrester’s annual index of customer experience, the CxPi (can we invest in this?), has “revealed” something that many of us probably knew intuitively … or perhaps knew from plain experience. The customer experience offered by health care companies is particularly poor compared to other industries.
From a summary of the report at the Experience [...]
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Definitions in the health care debate
May 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets, Market Definitions
Economix at the NYTimes has a nice post about how definitions mean something … and then proceeds to define some important terms in the health care debate: Socialized Medicine; and Socialized Health Insurance.
As blog author Uwe Reinhardt points out, people often confuse them, especially, it seems, when they’re on the campaign trail. And, interestingly [...]
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Ouch! Red pins hurt! (And sometimes contain no useful information)
April 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Fun, Healthcare Markets, Information Design, Prediction Markets
Navigate to the latest prediction market, a “health market” this time, from the Iowa Electronic Market, and one see this:
Ouch! Oh, wait. The text lamely explains the graphic. “Each marker represents a location containing current or former health market participants.”
Phew. Well, I’m happy to hear that. But now, what the [...]
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China, India, and who owns the next century
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets
The latest Economist has some nice coverage regarding the state of health care in both China and India (as well as an excellent report on Healthcare IT). Upon reading both articles I was again struck by skepticism of the claim that the 21st century is China’s century.
China, at least in terms of [...]
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Echo chamber: health populi on the importance of best practice for physicians
February 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets
My favorite health care economist / blogger, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, has published a nice followup to a recently published report on regional variation in health care costs in the NEJM.
Her “hot points” are often spot on, and this post is no exception. I quote:
Physicians determine the bulk of hospital and prescription drug spending: thus, when [...]
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Transparency in billing statements
January 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets, Information Design
Siegel+Gale, a branding and “simplicity” firm, has conducted a study that maps out which billing statements consumers think are the most complex. (I’ll withhold any snide comments about the research being the result of consultants keeping themselves busy while on the beach).
The results are:
Credit card statements, the least offensive in this survey, does seem [...]
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U.S Healthcare Efficiency (or, the benefits of going paperless) Index
December 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Healthcare Markets
It’s good to know that people monitor such things — in this case, the amount of money the healthcare industry could save by going paperless. I might suggest some improvements to their dashboard, but the idea is spot on.
~alex
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Healthcare, coming to a country near you
August 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets
The Economist has an excellent piece about medical tourism (or the future of health care, as some might say).
If you don’t want to read the article, here is the UsableMarkets “hot points” (thanks Health Populi):
The quality of health care in some emerging countries (India, Thailand, etc.) now rivals that in the US, and other established [...]
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Oil’s impact on healthcare; CFTC and prediction markets; walk it off
July 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Fun, Healthcare Markets, Lazy Blogger Blog Post, Prediction Markets
First, a great post from Health Populi on how the cost of oil affects health care.
Next, John Delaney, of Intrade, on why prediction markets should be legal, and regulated by the CFTC. And why they’re so darn useful. This is a good read.
Finally, how walkable is your neighborhood. Mine is a 94.
Why [...]
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