Apta Healthcare Blog

Telemedicine has revolutionized healthcare delivery in recent years by bringing doctors into living rooms via video. What once might have been considered science fiction is very much a reality.

If you were renting a house, would you invest $30,000 in a kitchen renovation? Of course not. The investment would only benefit the owner who still has complete control over the future of the home. In the world of insurance, the fully insured model is just pouring money into a rental.

The healthcare delivery process has traditionally been fragmented and confusing for consumers. While evaluations, specialty care, drug delivery and rehabilitation are rightly handled by different practitioners, there’s rarely meaningful coordination between the individual components.

The political decision on whether to change or repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is lining up to take center stage in healthcare news this year. However, issues such as drug costs, healthcare consumerism and a rise in technology - or telemedicine - are also making headlines.

Last year, consumer healthcare solutions leader Alegeus Technologies announced its inaugural Healthcare Consumerism Index, which sought to measure consumer behavior and engagement during the healthcare purchasing process.

A widespread complaint among self-insured employers and healthcare consultants is that employees are not engaged in their healthcare programs. In a rapidly changing healthcare marketplace where consumers have more control over their healthcare than ever before, their involvement is critical.

When it comes to healthcare, there are many ways of delivering the best patient care and support. These days, multiple people may be involved in this objective — from case managers, to health coaches, to healthcare coordinators.

If you head up an employee health plan program, you’ve no doubt thought about implementing a health and wellness program in conjunction with your company’s healthcare benefit. Or maybe you already have a company wellness program and want to improve it. For many, this type of offering is essential to employee well-being and happiness on the job, but few programs actually deliver the results employers hope to achieve.

You may already realize that Care Coordination offers impressive cost savings and benefits solutions for companies struggling with the ever-increasing cost of health care coverage. However, the impact this powerful healthcare option has on your employees’ health and wellness cannot be overlooked.

With candidates battling to satisfy the needs of their constituents in this Presidential election season, the topic of healthcare is coming up regularly. In fact, it’s tied for second place (after the economy) in the list of issues Americans are most concerned with in 2016, according to a Gallup poll.