A friend recently attended a Health 2.0 seminar, and afterwards asked my thoughts about the movement (my term). I responded: I haven’t followed Health 2.0 as closely as some other topics, but Health 2.0 seems to be mainly centered around the application of social networking techniques (for patients with similar illnesses), and vertical search (like [...]
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Everything that can be transparent ….
December 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets
That dang thought arises again upon reading this interview over at Crossover Health (which, truth be told, sounds more like an athletic activity than a blog about Health 2.0). Anyway, I left this thought (or comment, I suppose you could call it), over there, and I repeat here for your benefit. It’s in response to [...]
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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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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