Health Decision Support Tools

This weekend at the AHIP conference in Las Vegas, HealthSparq announced its partnership with MDLive and Benefitfocus aligned with CodeBaby to offer innovative new ways to develop health care consumerism.

The recent report “Price Transparency in U.S. Healthcare: A New Market” by research and advisory firm Aite Group released last Thursday establishes health care price transparency as a growing, new health care market.

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the key tenets of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has disrupted the American way of providing health coverage and care to its citizens. But what does that disruption mean? And which way will it lead us?

Gone are the days where the only place one could learn about his/her disease or injury was within the four walls of the treating physician’s office. Social media will continue to be a powerful tool for the empowered consumer looking for information about their doctors and diseases.

24/7/365 telehealth services now available to patients across the nation

Learn how health insurers are planning for health care transparency

To give health care consumers more information about hospital safety performance, Aetna announced that it will include The Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Scores in its online hospital directory, DocFind, beginning this August.

As the IHC Froum West kicked off last week, Monocle Health Data released its white paper examining the health care transparency revolution.

A white paper from Elsevier

A powerful combination of factors has converged on health care in ways that will influence how consumers choose and use medical services. Rising costs, information transparency, and information technology set today’s stage for consumer choice.