The internet is awash in blogs about healthcare. Many we enjoy (many we don’t even know about, sadly), but there is one that UsableMarkets loves above all others: Health Populi. Written by healthcare economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of THINK-Health, a strategic health consultancy, the blog manages sober (and enlightening) reflection on healthcare news and events, including [...]
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Google Health … Google Stealth … Google Dream … ?
January 24th, 2008 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets
We read in this morning’s news from TechCrunch that Google is making moves to launch Google Health. From the place-holder page over at Google we read: With Google Health, you can: * Build online health profiles that belong to you * Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies * Get personalized health guidance and relevant [...]
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Interview with Mona Lori, Principle, OutOfPocket.com
August 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Healthcare Markets, Interviews
In the healthcare services market change comes slowly. An incredible amount of innovative thinking, and technical blood, sweat and tears, have been put into improving our healthcare experience over the past two decades, yet in many ways very little has changed. Still, after all these years, getting accurate prices for basic procedures is like climbing [...]
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Interview with Anne Yeo, Information Architect for HealthPricer.com
June 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets, Interviews
A large piece of the puzzle in containing healthcare costs is making drug prices transparent, and making prices transparent (or at least more transparent) is something that the internet does well, and will continue to do even better because of companies like healthpricer.com. Looking at their site one might be confused by the fact that [...]
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Market-Based Healthcare Plans: Unusable!
May 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Healthcare Markets
In last week’s FT there was an interesting article about the lack of success of market-based healthcare plans in the US. The article – Republican healthcare plan ‘in jeopardy’ – reports on a survey that documents consumer rejection of these types of plans. As the survey states: “Any consumer product that scored as low [as [...]
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