Voices for smarter, better health care

With all the buzz about health care costs and health care spending, you might be surprised to learn that not many people actually use health care shopping tools. Given the recent increase in news headlines and media outlets (Vox, KHN), covering the issue of surprise medical bills and high health ...

Quality and compliance are important to supporting our health plan clients. That’s why we’re thrilled that we have once again received NCQA’s Health Information Product (HIP) 4 (Physician and Hospital Directories) certification. NCQA certification is mission critical for HealthSparq as we know it is for our clients. Our HealthSparq One®-based ...

The main message from last week’s AHIP Consumer Experience and Digital Health Forum keynote speaker, branding expert Johnny Cupcakes (yes, you read that right), was to focus on human to human connections. While he may not have known it, he just so happened to give us an ideal set up ...

We recently co-hosted a webinar with Oliver Wyman discussing how health plans can use personalization to build trust with their members – without creeping them out. How far is too far? How far is not far enough? Here are a few of the biggest take-aways from both our own research ...

Great conferences help you connect and be inspired. Last week’s Oliver Wyman Innovation Summit did just that. And since the conference wrapped up, I’ve been thinking about Bill Gates’ quote from his book, The Road Ahead, where he discusses the evolution of personal computing: "We always overestimate the change that ...

A couple of weeks ago, HealthSparq sponsored and participated in the Society for Participatory Medicine’s 2nd Annual Conference: Democratizing Healthcare (#SPM2018). After all the work I’ve done with What’s the Fix? over the past few years, this conference is very close to my heart. There are amazing individuals and organizations ...

Heading into next week’s election, one of the top issues voters report being most concerned about is health care. In an overall effort to continue better understanding our users and their needs, we, in conjunction with our partner Hanover Research, recently surveyed almost 1,000 health care consumers from across the ...

In this blog post, I will be taking you though my journey of using Datomic database. The reasons why we chose Datomic, pros and cons of using Datomic. Datomic is unlike Relational/ NoSQL database that I have used in the past, its unique. My first experience with Datomic started when ...

We recently asked more than 1,000 health care consumers about how they interact with open enrollment – and what their plans are this year – so that health plans can improve their member engagement and education efforts.