Analytics and Reporting

Advancing Greater Awareness of Price Transparency Tools and Information: What Congress Can Do

April 18, 2018

The Senate’s Health Care Transparency Initiative recently asked stakeholders for feedback. As part of Freedman HealthCare’s response outlining recommendations to maximize the opportunity of APCDs, this post focuses on the most effective methods to connect consumers with this data. Current Approaches to Publicize Price and Quality Transparency Websites: Launch events Ongoing social media postings Press...Read more

Resources Are a Consistent Challenge APCDs Face: What Congress Can Do

Freedman HealthCare Staff

April 17, 2018

Analytics and Reporting

The Senate’s recently asked stakeholders for feedback. This is the fourth in a brief series of posts sharing Freedman HealthCare’s recommendations to maximize the opportunity of APCDs and alleviate barriers to the broad sharing of actionable health care data. This post focuses on how Congress could support APCDs in securing necessary resources. FHC works closely...Read more

APCDs Experience Limitations When Sharing Data: What Congress Can Do

Freedman HealthCare Staff

April 12, 2018

Analytics and Reporting

The Senate’s Health Care Transparency Initiative recently asked stakeholders for feedback. This is the third in a brief series of posts sharing Freedman HealthCare’s recommendations to maximize the opportunity of APCDs and alleviate barriers to the broad sharing of actionable health care data. This post focuses on how Congress could support broader data sharing by...Read more

Expanding Data Sources Available to APCDs: What Congress Can Do

Freedman HealthCare Staff

April 9, 2018

Analytics and Reporting

The Senate’s Health Care Transparency Initiative recently asked stakeholders for feedback. In a brief series of posts, I’ll be sharing Freedman HealthCare’s recommendations to the group, which focused on strategies to maximize the opportunity of APCDs and alleviate barriers to the broad sharing of actionable health care data. Our first series of recommendations addresses expanding...Read more

Health Care Price Transparency Initiative: Our Response

Freedman HealthCare Staff

April 4, 2018

Analytics and Reporting

Health care costs are rising and the American public knows it. As healthcare costs increase, so does the shift towards higher deductible health plans. Here’s the effect. Patients pay more out-of-pocket and now more than ever want to know how much their health care is going to cost. In response, a bipartisan group of Senators,...Read more

Defining Health Care Value: Why Do We Have to Agree?

Mary Jo Condon, MPPA

March 14, 2018

Analytics and Reporting

The Harvard Business Review recently published an article titled, “We Won’t Get Value-Based Health Care Until We Agree on What ‘Value’ Means.” The title begs a simple question, “Why do we have to agree?” Why can’t patients and the employers and health plans that foot much of their health care bills make individual and situational...Read more

Health Care Cost and Transparency in the Digital Age

John Freedman, MD/MBA

February 16, 2018

Analytics and Reporting

I recently participated in the Digital Health @ Harvard series, which features speakers from Harvard as well as other collaborators and colleagues. The goal is to bring together those that work in the intersection between health and technology, a world the series has coined the “digital health ecosystem.” Discussion topics highlight new developments and identify opportunities...Read more

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Advancing Greater Awareness of Price Transparency Tools and Information: What Congress Can Do

Resources Are a Consistent Challenge APCDs Face: What Congress Can Do

APCDs Experience Limitations When Sharing Data: What Congress Can Do

Expanding Data Sources Available to APCDs: What Congress Can Do

Health Care Price Transparency Initiative: Our Response

Defining Health Care Value: Why Do We Have to Agree?

Health Care Cost and Transparency in the Digital Age

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