Free Report: The Tangled Web of Google Health: Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies
Download this Free Report and Learn:
- A comprehensive background on the features of Personal Health Record (PHR) systems
- Several examples of recent commercial PHR models, detailing partnerships between technology and insurance corporations and healthcare providers
- The implications of PHRs on healthcare receivables and the validity of patients’ financial responsibility should healthcare receivables slip into delinquency
How medical receivables management firms are reacting to PHRs
The Tangled Web of Google Health: Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies
The World Wide Web, and the major international corporations that help users organize the way they navigate it, is on the cusp of another transformative moment in the evolution of healthcare. You have probably encountered at least one story on Personal Health Records (PHRs) and the controversy surrounding plans by Google, Microsoft, Aetna, and other companies purportedly to give consumers more active control of their healthcare decisions. In this free whitepaper, you'll learn the implications of the PHR for the medical receivables industry.
Download the FREE The Tangled Web of Google Health: Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies Report now!
 |
 |
What is a PHR? How will it affect Medical Receivables?
PHRs are individual health records that incorporate patient data from a variety of sources — doctor and hospital visits, insurance company information, and most notably the consumer himself — that are stored in a central repository, often online, and made accessible to the consumer and those parties he authorizes to retrieve it.
Download The Tangled Web of Google Health: Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies and discover how players in the healthcare receivables industry must adjust to the impact of PHRs, as well as the lack of HIPAA regulations for PHR companies such as Google.
Download the FREE The Tangled Web of Google Health: Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies Report now!
|
|
PHRs and Healthcare Receivables
Clearly, PHRs hold the potential to significantly impact the hospital industry, the ARM industry, and physicians — all on the receivables end of healthcare expenditures.
Download The Tangled Web of Google Health: Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies and discover:
- Why partnerships with commercial PHRs could cushion the shock of technology investments, especially for physicians in small practice groups
- Why large hospitals or hospital systems, like the Cleveland Clinic, should partner with commercial PHRs to bring together their systems
- Why the healthcare debt buying market, still largely in its infancy but poised to expand appreciably in coming years, could reasonably benefit from PHRs
- Why in the absence of any legal precedent, healthcare creditors and their medical debt collection agency partners may perhaps discover new inroads—and increased leverage—when patients with the means to do so are reluctant to meet their financial obligations for medical debt
The Foregone Conclusion of PHR Impact on Healthcare Receivables
Download The Tangled Web of Google Health: Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies and discover:
- Why patients, healthcare providers, debt collection agencies, government regulators, and consumer advocates should cease to ask "if" these systems will affect the U.S. healthcare system and the medical receivables industry and begin at once to ask "how" they will do so
- Why stakeholders at all levels, including directors of hospital billing and collections, debt buyers, and collection agencies thats pecialize in medical receivables should endeavor to participate actively in the process of defining the shape of commercial PHRs
Download the FREE The Tangled Web of Google Health: Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies Report now!
|
|