62% of Consumers Unfamiliar with Value-Based Care, Study Finds

October 25, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACOs, consumer education, consumers, healthcare, healthcare consumers, healthcare education, healthcare industry, Patient Education, patients, value-based care, vbc

More than half of consumers are unfamiliar with value-based care, and for the ones who are aware of it, only a quarter can define the healthcare model correctly, a new study from nonprofit health plan EmblemHealth revealed. The payer surveyed 970 consumers online between August 12 and August 22, 2021, and found that there is a…

Who is Generation C and how will healthcare adapt to meet their expectations?

October 17, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Commentsconsumers, Coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Generation C, Generation Covid, pandemic, patient access, Patient Engagement, patient experience, patients, payments

While the term “Gen C” was first introduced circa 2012 by futurist Brian Solis as a way of describing a generation of connected consumers defined not by their age, geography, or income but by their hyper-connected, mobile-first mentality, it’s increasingly being used to describe post-pandemic-born babies. It’s also been applied to the mindset and expectations…

Five Important Health Care Trends That Consumers Should Track

July 29, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, consumers, cost transparency, coverage, health care trends, health costs, health inequities, health literacy, healthcare, healthcare costs, healthcare trends, Informed Patient, patient health data, SDOH, value-based care, vbc

In the world of health care, change is never-ending. Politics, government regulation, scientific advancement, technology, and the economics and financing of health care foster shifts to reshape how care is delivered and how much it costs. Many of these shifts are completely invisible to us as health care consumers. But they also drive what is…

Going Beyond Compliance: How Payers Can Embrace Healthcare Interoperability

June 28, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsCAQH, CMS, compliance, consumers, Data, decentralized database, health information exchange, HHS, Interoperability, ONC, Payers

Payers may be prepared to comply with the interoperability rule for the July 1 deadline, but are they ready to adopt healthcare interoperability long-term? For the past couple of years, CMS has pushed the industry to take bigger steps toward standardizing interoperability. “CMS continues to build on its roadmap to improve interoperability and health information…

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