Payers, as with the rest of the healthcare industry, have a lot on their plate right now. Healthcare reform, via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues its march forward despite legal and political uncertainty. Struggling to define the payer role in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), understanding the impact of Health Insurance Exchanges (HIXs) on their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘AHIP’
Looking at Healthcare Through Payer Lenses: Part Two
Posted in ACO, consumer health, PHR, policy, tagged Affordable Care Act, AHIP, AHIP Institute, healthcare reform, HIX, payers, PCMH on June 22, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Looking at Healthcare Through Payer Lenses: Part One
Posted in ACO, CMS, consumer health, HIT, policy, tagged Affordable Care Act, AHIP, health insurance exchange, HIX, payers on June 19, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Attending the annual health insurers confab (AHIP Institute) last week gave one some insight as to the challenges this part of the healthcare industry is facing. There were plenty of sessions on addressing data analytics for everything from population health management to fraud, a number of other sessions on consumer engagement, disease management, health & [...]
Finally, Dossia Goes Live
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged AHIP, Dossia, Intel, Omnimedix, portability, Wal-Mart on October 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In what seems like ages since the first announcement of the formation of Dossia, the third platform play for personal health information (the other two being Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault), Dossia has moved from a an extremely limited pilot of ~20 Wal-Mart employees (guinea pigs) to now become a part of Wal-Mart’s 2009 health [...]
How Many Cooks Does it Take to Define a PHR Functional Model?
Posted in CCD, PHR, standards, tagged AHIP, CCHIT, HL7, PHR, Project Health Design, RWJF, standards on March 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
While doing some research on healthcare IT (HIT) standards for our upcoming report on the PHR market I stumbled upon 3 different organizations who all seem to be doing pretty much the same thing, defining a functional model for PHRs. Functional Models are basically just that, a model that defines what functions should be contained [...]
HIMSS – PHR Platforms MIA
Posted in EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged AHIP, Cerner, Eclipsys, EMR, Epic, GE Healthcare, Google, HIMSS, Microsoft, PHR, Revolution Health, Siemens on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Received an email this weekend from the organizers of the big healthcare IT conference, HIMSS, which will be held next week in Orlando. This is the BIG EVENT, where virtually all present and future players in the HIT market come to pontificate on HIT’s future (e.g., both Google’s and Revolution Health’s CEOs will be giving [...]
