Healthcare Execs’ Urgent Calls To Action
During a panel discussion at AHIP 2024, several executives shared their healthcare calls to action, including leveraging AI and rebuilding trust.
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.
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
The Healthcare System Isn’t a System, Health Exec Says
Patients are struggling to find the right care, and that's because the healthcare system is fragmented, according to Andrea Walsh, president and CEO of HealthPartners, an integrated healthcare provider and insurance company. Walsh made these comments Wednesday at the HIMSS 2023 conference in Chicago.
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.
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.
HealthPartners inks deal with Welltok to add personalized care tools for members
The deal will give Welltok access to the 1.5 million people insured by HealthPartners, which operates in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
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 front-row seat to the ups and downs of healthcare.gov, the federal exchange website that got off to a notoriously poor start. With the fixes to the federal website, CoOportunity officials report that the exchange enrollment numbers are improving rapidly. “We’ve […]
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 healthcare provider and insurer announced Wednesday that it is opening a retail location to provide a convenient setting for seniors and individual buyers of health insurance. The location at the Ridgedale Center mall in Minnetonka will be staffed by licensed agents. […]
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 concluding that hospitals spent $30 billion in such visits in 2006. To reduce the number of these preventable hospital admissions, especially in the emergency room, a Minnesota integrated healthcare provider and insurer launched a pilot plan in August 2011. HealthPartners’ […]
Minnesota health provider creates wellness Web portal for businesses
A Minnesota nonprofit health provider and insurer is launching a Web portal for businesses who want to promote workplace wellness. HealthPartners announced Monday that the new interactive Web portal can be customized to individual businesses to reflect its branding, customized for each individual employee who participates, and can integrate various health and wellness programs that […]
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Market Trends to Watch for Health Systems and Their Specialty Pharmacies
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Minnesota healthcare provider partnership to target childhood obesity
Two Minnesota health providers are teaming up to fight childhood obesity and provide improved patient care. HealthPartners, a nonprofit healthcare provider and insurer, and Children’s Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota announced Tuesday that they are launching joint educational initiatives and programs by which urban areas can better deal with the problem of childhood obesity. The two […]
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."
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.
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.
HealthPartners CEO: Nurses’ demand for patient ratios misguided
Count HealthPartners CEO Mary Brainerd as another healthcare official who neither buys the logic behind the nurses demand for set staffing levels, nor the union’s stated reason for embracing the issue as its rallying cry. Brainerd is hardly a neutral expert. HealthPartners, based in Minneapolis, operates three hospitals, all of them non-union. Yet as leader […]