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The History of High Deductible Health Plans

In 2000, healthcare costs were beginning to consistently rise. In 2009, the Kaiser Family Foundat...

What the New Walgreens Alliance Means for Health Systems

Walgreens has recently announced an agreement with Verily, a data science and sister company of G...

Putting Patients at The Center of Digital Healthcare Transformation

Until recently, the majority of a hospital’s tech investments have been for clinical users ...

Four New Drivers of Consumer Healthcare Purchasing Decisions

The way that individuals make their healthcare purchasing decisions is dramatically changing, and...

3 Types of Value-Based Care Models

Value-based care has emerged as an alternative for fee-for-service reimbursement based ...

5 Strategic Healthcare Location Factors

Research shows that a high number of people would change physicians because of location over pric...

Consumer-Driven Healthcare: The Importance of Consumer Segmentation Part 2

We have written several articles on the importance of Consumer segmentation for Healthcare. It is...

How the Aging Population is Shaping Healthcare

Medicare patients make up the largest customer base for the United State’s hospitals and healthca...

Uber Health is Picking Patients Up

An average of 3.6 million Americans miss their health care appointments every year because of unr...

Value-Based Reimbursement (VBR) Models are Growing

Not only is the interest in value-based reimbursement (VBR) models growing, but the eff...