FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Industry Voices—Dear health insurance industry: Don’t call me a patient. Thu, 12/17/2020 - 14:43.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JANUARY 16, 2024

Health insurance, a cornerstone of the healthcare industry, is undergoing a transformation propelled by cutting-edge technologies, data analytics, and a renewed focus on enhancing overall healthcare solutions. The post Innovating Payer Offerings: Revolutionizing Health Insurance appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2020

healthcare: the cost of health insurance relative to working Americans’ relatively flat incomes. I explored the details of this study in a post titled Health Insurance Affordability: A Call-to-Action for Healthcare Industry Stakeholders in the Pandemic , published on the Medecision Liberation blog site.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Technology can help organizations identify more billable insurance coverage for self-pay patients, maximizing revenue, increasing efficiency and improving patient experience. Streamline the billing process The right RCM partner will help providers optimize revenue by creating faster, easier processes to identify insurance coverage.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 12, 2023

Prior authorization has been a flashpoint for providers, and, while insurers have taken steps to ease these utilization management protocols, they still play a key role as the industry shifts to va | Prior authorization has been a flashpoint for providers, and, while insurers have taken steps to ease these utilization management protocols, they still (..)

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 19, 2021

Industry Voices—Wellness programs aren’t working well. Here’s what insurers can learn from Starbucks. Fri, 03/19/2021 - 09:52.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Healthcare providers and insurers look to digital records and tools to boost quality and efficiency, with GenAI emerging as next major trend, ISG Provider Lens report says STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS healthcare industry,” said Bob Krohn, partner, Healthcare, for ISG. “As A powerful wave of modernization is transforming the U.S.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 28, 2023

The insurance industry is facing a range of challenges, from rising claims costs to the need for modernization. Inflation, changing risk profiles, and a shortage of insurtech talent are among the biggest challenges facing the industry, while customer experience and digitization have become critical issues due to the pandemic.

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LeanIX

MARCH 11, 2021

In this episode of Unleash IT, we speak with Kalpesh Sharma , Director and Principal Enterprise Architect at Capgemini , about IT transformation in the insurance industry. In his 20+ years of experience in the field, Kalpesh has watched the industry evolve from being project-driven and siloed to product-based and integrated. “I

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Moody's: Insurers will be financially 'unscathed' by COVID-19 but must adapt to industry evolution. Wed, 11/18/2020 - 14:39.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 26, 2019

Applying industrial engineering principles to insurers' processes and systems would be a smart way to identify and make improvements.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You can see the various industries covered in the chart comparing simplicity scores globally and among U.S. You can see the various industries covered in the chart comparing simplicity scores globally and among U.S. This year, Siegel+Gale gauged consumers’ views on DEI and ESG communications across all of the industries.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 5, 2024

Humana and Elevance Health said they are seeing a 15% to 20% reduction in data from providers after the Change Healthcare hack, company execs said during an industry conference March 5. Both Humana and Elevance Health said the Change Healthcare cyberattack is affecting its claims data from providers.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 7, 2023

Healthcare insurers in the long-term care market over the decades found themselves in a bind because they could not pay claims with prices that had been agreed upon years earlier and that inflation | When many long-term care policies were first drawn up, insurance companies had no historical data to help them predict the financial future.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. Figure A shows the family health insurance premium cost-sharing between employers and workers over ten years. Even with growing inflation in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2022

It is time this changed,” asserts the report, The Business of Health Equity: The Marmot Review for Industry , sponsored by Legal & General in collaboration with University College London (UCL) Institute of Health Equity, led by Sir Michael Marmot.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

health care industries fell to their lowest consumer satisfaction scores in two decades, we learn in the latest evaluation by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index report. The post How Healthcare Experience Ranks Versus Other Industries (Not So Great) appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 21, 2020

Industry Voices—How tech companies can help health insurance leaders meet the COVID-19 challenge. Tue, 07/21/2020 - 11:19.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PBMs used solely by insurers with which they’re affiliated with cannot be considered viable options for other nonaffiliated insurers, the AMA says.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2024

In this health consumer update, McKinsey spoke with three consumer marketing experts from other industries to learn best practices on how best to “be there” for consumers — in other words, meeting people where they are. The first bar chart from the report tells us that most U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

healthcare industry more than $50 billion each year. When a patient’s identity is compromised, thieves can use this stolen data to file phony claims with insurance providers. Here is a breakdown of how KYP works and what makes it useful for healthcare providers in combating insurance fraud. What Exactly is KYP?

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 16, 2021

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that mandates the creation of national standards to protect delicate and private patient medical history and health information from being disclosed […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 13, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #biometrics –Daon, the Digital Identity Trust company, is expanding its identity proofing and authentication solutions to the healthcare industry to enable organizations to safeguard identities for providers, staff, and patients. Healthcare is often associated with complicated, cumbersome processes.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance. million people in 2017.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A top health aide for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi implored the insurance industry to form a coalition with healthcare and employer groups to blunt pharma and GOP opposition to the speaker’s ambitious drug prices bill.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2021

Most industries operating in the U.S. also lost consumers’ trust during the pandemic, except for a handful of businesses — most notably, the health care industry gained a lot of American trust-equity from 2020 to 2021. It’s going to take every stakeholder in the industry to collaborate on this crucial objective.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

We have harnessed a powerful data analytics platform to manage populations across multiple regions, insurers, and clinical partners to achieve better patient outcomes and reduced physician burden,” explained Guidehealth Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Michael Gleeson. “By

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DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This Digital Health News industry roundup includes funding to trial gaming and AI tech to diagnose Alzheimer's and accreditation for a clinical AI platform.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Insurers may not expect new major regulations next year, but the presidential election could severely impact their business.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

as a “health insurance company” evolving to its vision as technology-informed health care. “People think of Humana as insurance company but we feel we’re more about integrated health care…(We’re) trying to make the pivot as a health partner, a tech company delivering health care.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 25, 2018

Insurers are already excited about a bipartisan-supported effort to delay the health insurance taxes until 2021. The taxes cost insurers billions per year, but another delay could mean $14 billion in lost revenue for the feds.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The pharmaceutical industry and health insurance companies garnered 3 in 10 people rating them as excellent/good, with nursing homes at the bottom a 2.5/10 ” For pharma/drug companies and health insurers, 3 in 10 consumers also ranked these medical segments as “poor” providers in the U.S. health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Has Healthcare Become a Consumer Industry? Has healthcare become a consumer industry? We want and need to know how to engage with the organizations that identify as healthcare providers, insurers, and others.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP). FYI you might know of NABIP by its former acronym, NAHU, the National Association of Health Underwriters).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2021

A global survey of digital health and wellness practitioners found that although many leaders feel optimistic about the future of the industry, the overwhelming majority also perceive the sector to be relatively high risk. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

Digitizing content helps companies across almost every industry increase efficiency, improve workflow, reduce costs, and raise productivity. For the healthcare industry – an industry that is conservative by nature – undergoing a transformation presents an opportunity to implement digital strategies across the board.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Insurance policies are notoriously known for red tape and processes that burden both doctors and patients. | The time-sensitive GI procedures that UHC is targeting with prior authorization are critical in helping to detect, treat, and monitor a range of diseases that impact millions of Americans.

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