Kaiser’s greatest legacy is Kaiser Permanente, one of the world’s first prepaid health plans, which he co-founded with Dr. Sidney R. Garfield in 1938.
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UnitedHealthcare’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program and Diabetes Health Plan were recognized by the NBCH for their ability to help enhance health care safety and quality while reducing costs.
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Medication compliance has long been acknowledged as a serious problem for the American health care system, costing billions of dollars in lost productivity, additional doctor visits, preventable hospitalizations and nursing home admissions, and even premature death.
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New TriZetto Value-Based Benefits Solution Paves Road to Member-Level Benefit Design and Incentives.
Employers, benefit consultants and the government are calling for value-based health benefit designs to align consumers’ incentives to improve health and reduce unnecessary healthcare costs.
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Tonight when you get home from work and switch on the network evening news, some of the flood of healthcare ads you will see may be award winners. The Nielsen Company and the CLIO Awards today announced the winners of the first-ever CLIO Healthcare Awards in all categories.
The CLIO Healthcare Awards is an extension of [...]
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“With the worldwide interest in health and particularly health IT, we want to give people a forum to talk about how important IT is to the industry…”
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Continuing with the thread about what might happen if healthcare reform does not pass, here is an interesting product that is emerging in the New York City area.
Innovation Alert
The growing numbers of uninsured and underinsured now have a new low-cost option for obtaining health care services and prescriptions at significantly reduced prices. Transparent Health Network, [...]
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The consequences of not passing health care reform could result in another 10 million people with out employer-sponsored health insurance.
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Havighurst says that more attention should be paid to creating conditions under which competition can actually bring health care costs down. Otherwise, he asks, what is the point of private health plans?
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