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Are we forgetting the role of human nature in "Healthcare Consumerism"?
Truly changing our healthcare system is going to require success across hundreds of thousands of employers...
For over 30 years I have been part of the employee benefits community and have watched the world move from indemnity plans to HMO’s, PPO’s, flexible benefits and apparently now CDHPs.
The fact is that none of these “new” things evolved as originally planned and some, like HMO’s, essentially failed as a broad based solution.
Why? human nature and its capacity to absorb change and modify one’s behavior.
Gathering and publishing the best and most transparent cost of service and quality information is comparatively trivial compared to the time it will take for people to absorb these new plans, financing mechanisms and ways of managing one’s health.
Truly changing our healthcare system is going to require success across hundreds of thousands of employers of all sizes and industries, not just the Fortune 1000.
The gating factor for the speed of change is not going to be the monumental task of changing the system but how we prepare, educate and support employers of all sizes, consumers and their families for the brave new world they are going to face however CDHC evolves.
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John Nail, a 30+ year benefits industry veteran and serial entrepreneur, is the founder and “newsmaster” of The Industry Radar, his third employee benefits related technology startup.
Mr. Nail’s passion is “information logistics” - or creating transactional, information and communication efficiencies between the various constituents in the “HR/employee benefits supply chain” – employees, employers, brokers and benefits/healthcare insurers.
He started his first company, Employease in 1996 which was the true first software-as-a-service (SaaS) application and the first web native human resources benefits enrollment, communication and financial management platform. Mr. Nail personally funded the startup of the company and as its first CEO raised over $17 million of capital in three venture capital rounds before leaving the company in late 1999 to start his second company, digitalBenefits, which he later sold to Authoria.
In the fall of 2006, after a very successful partnership, Employease was acquired by ADP and today is an integral part of the company’s major market growth strategy.
The Industry Radar (www.theindustryradar.com) which is an RSS driven digital media business focused solely on meeting the real time information needs of human resources, insurance, healthcare and employee benefits professionals. Its 80+ RSS news feeds and 2 email newsletters reach well over 100,000 industry professionals daily and serve over 4 million article views monthly.
Mr. Nail, a Civil War buff and avid golfer, is a Cum Laude graduate of Williams College and is also the father of three ages 25, 7 and 5. He maintains his office and home in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Hello John, Noting your focus here and specifically on human nature, personal through to organisational change - the blog:
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
- and website introduced below may be of interest?
Originally created in the UK by Brian E Hodges (Ret.) at Manchester Metropolitan
University -
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
- can help map health, social care and OTHER issues, problems and solutions. The
model takes a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains:
* Interpersonal;
* Sociological;
* Empirical;
* Political.
Our links pages cover each care (knowledge) domain e.g. POLITICAL:
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksIV.htm
Thank you for your time and best wishes with your plans.
Peter Jones
Greenbank
Ripon St
Preston
Lancashire
UK
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http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
h2cm: help 2C more - help 2 listen - help 2 care
I found your writing very interesting. Dorothy "Dot" Cush, Account Consultant at Unum, (formerly UnumProvident) mentioned that you were among a number of persons who worked for the company over the years and have since left.
Best wishes for continued success in your business ventures.
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Make your own life time easier take the personal loans and all you need.
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John Nail, a 30+ year benefits industry veteran and serial entrepreneur, is the founder and “newsmaster” of The Industry Radar, his third employee benefits related technology startup.
Mr. Nail’s passion is “information logistics” - or creating transactional, information and communication efficiencies between the various constituents in the “HR/employee benefits supply chain” – employees, employers, brokers and benefits/healthcare insurers.
He started his first company, Employease in 1996 which was the true first software-as-a-service (SaaS) application and the first web native human resources benefits enrollment, communication and financial management platform. Mr. Nail personally funded the startup of the company and as its first CEO raised over $17 million of capital in three venture capital rounds before leaving the company in late 1999 to start his second company, digitalBenefits, which he later sold to Authoria.
In the fall of 2006, after a very successful partnership, Employease was acquired by ADP and today is an integral part of the company’s major market growth strategy.
The Industry Radar (www.theindustryradar.com) which is an RSS driven digital media business focused solely on meeting the real time information needs of human resources, insurance, healthcare and employee benefits professionals. Its 80+ RSS news feeds and 2 email newsletters reach well over 100,000 industry professionals daily and serve over 4 million article views monthly.
Mr. Nail, a Civil War buff and avid golfer, is a Cum Laude graduate of Williams College and is also the father of three ages 25, 7 and 5. He maintains his office and home in Atlanta, Georgia.
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I just found a web site that promotes safe health care tourism services around the globe. It is focused on healthcare issues and safety of patients traveling abroad for healthcare. DO we need something like this? something that looks out for the patients?
Its called Health Care Tourism International?
They accredit organizations in health tourism.
www.healthcaretrip.org