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HealthPartners
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HealthPartners Exec: The 5 Rules To Scale Value-Based Care in the Commercial Market
The commercial market has struggled to adopt value-based care, but HealthPartners has had some success, according to Mark Hansberry, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of the company. During a conference, he shared five rules for scaling value-based care, including creating trust and providing real-time data.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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HealthPartners adds same-day prescription delivery to telehealth platform
The nonprofit health system, which operates a telehealth platform in 13 states, struck a partnership with Capsule to offer same-day prescription delivery.
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Cancer benefits startup Oncology Analytics nabs $21M Series B
The financing news comes on the heels of the company moving its headquarters to Atlanta from Plantation, Florida as a way to accommodate its rapid growth and tap into the technical and clinical talent in the region.
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Iowa + Nebraska co-op brings more competition to insurance market with few options
CoOportunity Health, a nonprofit health insurance cooperative based in Des Moines, Iowa, has had a […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, Hospitals, Payers, Pharma
HealthPartners opens temporary retail store to provide insurance for seniors, individual buyers
In a growing trend of retail strategies being employed in healthcare, HealthPartners, a Minnesota nonprofit […]
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Minnesota healthcare provider reduces preventable hospital visits by 65%
Unnecessary hospital admissions are a huge drain on the nation’s healthcare system with one study […]
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Minnesota health provider creates wellness Web portal for businesses
A Minnesota nonprofit health provider and insurer is launching a Web portal for businesses who […]
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Minnesota healthcare provider partnership to target childhood obesity
Two Minnesota health providers are teaming up to fight childhood obesity and provide improved patient […]
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Medica ad campaign shows attitude, other health insurers could follow
Medica, one of the largest healthcare insurers operating in Minnesota, is showing some attitude with a new marketing campaign in the Twin Cities. Billboards, bus stop and skyway signs show a lesbian couple holding hands, an ear with a huge stud earring, a baby holding a toy block, and a woman with a little girl lying on a blanket. The message is that Medica has “plans that fit your life.”
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Are insurers becoming a pain in the neck for spine surgery device makers?
Are spinal fusion procedures on the way out? Health plans and a growing number of doctors think too many patients are getting lumbar fusions without first exhausting less expensive non-surgical options such as exercise, physical therapy and epidural steroid injections.
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Healthcare reform: The more I know, the less I understand
The healthcare reform law is indisputably an emotionally charged, complicated piece of legislation that can thwart even the best intellects and intentions.
Just take LifeScience Alley’s seminar on how the law will impact Minnesota’s healthcare industry. By my last count, I witnessed an unfortunate analogy, two Freudian slips, and an ill conceived attempt at humor…I think.
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HealthPartners CEO: Nurses’ demand for patient ratios misguided
Count HealthPartners CEO Mary Brainerd as another healthcare official who neither buys the logic behind […]
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Night Read (Minnesota): Mayo Clinic partners with GE, Intel on chronic diseases study
Patients will measure their vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse and weight, and respond to questions related to their diseases on a daily basis. A clinical care team will review the data, and will be able to use videoconferencing to further evaluate the patients.