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Un-directed Americans in a consumer-directed healthcare world

By on April 30, 2013 in Affordable Care Act, Business and health, Corporate wellness, Financial health, Health benefits, Health care marketing, Health Economics, Health engagement, Health insurance, Health insurance exchanges, Health insurance marketplaces, Health literacy, Health marketing, Health Plans, Health policy, Health reform, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, media and health, Patient engagement, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA, Shopping and health, Workplace wellness

U.S. employers have been implementing various flavors of consumer-directed health plans for the better part of a decade. But consumers feel neither “directed” nor especially competent in managing their way through these plans. It appears that employers also have their own sort of health plan illiteracy when it comes to understanding health reform — the [...]

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The Slow Economy Has Slowed Health Spending

By on April 29, 2013 in Consumer-directed health, Electronic health records, Employers, Health benefits, Health care information technology, Health care marketing, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health engagement, Health insurance, Health insurance exchanges, Health insurance marketplaces, Health IT, Health policy, Health reform, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Patient engagement, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA, Prevention and wellness, Value based health, Workplace wellness

Why has health cost growth in the U.S. slowed in the past few years? It’s mostly due to the economy, argues the Kaiser Family Foundation in Assessing the Effects of the Economy on the Recent Slowdown of Health Spending. The answer to this question is important because, as the American economy recovers, it begs the [...]

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Health cost transparency comes to Cummins Engine

By on April 24, 2013 in Consumer-directed health, Corporate wellness, Employers, Patient engagement, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy, Prevention and wellness, Shopping and health, Workplace wellness

I can think of 3 reasons why workers at Cummins Engine are blessed: They are employed. They receive health insurance from their employer. They are about to be able to access a tool designed to help them become better health care consumers. Cummins, based in Columbus, Indiana (far from Silicon Valley), has 24,000 employees and [...]

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Bending the cost-curve: a proposal from some Old School bipartisans

By on April 22, 2013 in Accountable Care Organizations, Affordable Care Act, Business and health, Consumer-directed health, Electronic health records, Employers, Health benefits, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health insurance, Health IT, Health Plans, Health policy, Health politics, Health Quality, Health reform, Health regulation, Managed care, Medicare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Shopping and health, Value based health, Workplace wellness

Strange political bedfellows have come together to draft a formula for dealing with spiraling health care costs in the U.S. iin A Bipartisan Rx for Patient-Centered Care and System-Wide Cost Containment from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). The BPC was founded by Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell. This [...]

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Food = Health for employers, hospitals, health plans and consumers

By on April 18, 2013 in Chronic care, Chronic disease, Complementary and alternative medicine, Consumer-directed health, Corporate wellness, Design and health, Employers, Exercise, Fitness, Food and health, Global Health, Health benefits, Health care marketing, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health engagement, Health literacy, Health marketing, Health Plans, Health policy, Health social networks, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Heart health, Kids' health, media and health, mHealth, Mobile health, Moms and health, Noncommunicable disease, Nutrition, Obesity, Patient engagement, Pharmacy, Popular culture and health, Prescription drugs, Prevention and wellness, Primary care, Public health, Retail health, Shopping and health, Social media and health, Workplace wellness

Food is inextricably bound up with health whether we are well or not. Several key area of the Food=Health ecosystem made the news this week which, together, will impact public and personal health. On the employer health benefits front, more media are covering the story on CVS strongly incentivizing employees to drop body mass index [...]

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