Health plans

9:14 a.m. Sunday… Only one person in the checkout line at Stop and Shop in Everett, MA. Cool. Time to play pop culture catch-up. Who knew Jennifer Aniston might be getting married in Greece? Or that Brad and Angie and all those kids were in the Galapagos applying SPF 1,000 to protect against rays bouncing off that $500,000 engagement ring? Hang on…Newsweek next to Us and People and Hello? Weird. Even weirder, it was screeching, “The End of the Doctor-Patient Relationship” above the Newsweek title itself.1

This morning, we had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Richard Popiel, President and Chief Operating Officer at Horizon Healthcare Innovations, a subsidiary of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (BCBSNJ), and spoke about just-released results on its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program, which is New Jersey’s only comprehensive, statewide PCMH.

What if we could lower the financial burden associated with the top 5% of patients accounting for almost 50% of healthcare costs?1 We believe that such a transformation is achievable through accountable care delivery models like the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), which offers a collaborative, team-based approach with the primary care physician (PCP) at its nexus. One of the most powerful elements in PCMH is that this model financially rewards outcome-based healthcare.

We recently held our annual NaviNet Healthcare Forum, which brings together our health plan partners for a two-day dialogue on key industry trends, developments and strategic technology initiatives in support of this important stakeholder segment in the healthcare industry. It’s always exciting and informative to hear first-hand from our health plan customers about their focus, top priorities and challenges for the coming year.

'Healthcare Innovation' is quite the buzzword lately. Between Todd Park encouraging innovation in health IT by opening a government data API and the mHealth app market set to triple by 2012, it's staggering how quickly technology in the industry is advancing.

We are excited to be featured in a great blog post by Janice McCallum of Health Content Advisors, which examines innovations in clinical patient information exchange. Janice is a seasoned consultant to healthcare publishing and professional services companies who specializes in helping clients define and implement effective content and business development strategies.

There is an impressive amount of health-related discussion and news unfolding every day on social media. You may be thinking, “How can I navigate the most popular ones? How can I find those articles, news and insights that matter the most?” We at NaviNet are committed to staying on top of breaking industry news through industry blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to follow the daily developments across our rapidly changing industry. 

We recently wrapped up our annual NaviNet Healthcare Forum, which brings together leading health plans from around the country to discuss challenges and share best practices. The Forum is always a great opportunity for networking between colleagues in the health plan community, for NaviNet to communicate our strategic vision and product updates, and for us to receive insight and feedback from our health plan customers.