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HealthSparq Names Matt Parker New Vice President of Product

September 8, 2017

PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthSparq, a company helping people make smarter health care choices, has named Matt Parker as its new Vice President of Product.

Study: Health Plan Apps Lack Features People Want

August 15, 2017

Only 13 percent of consumers currently use their smartphone to manage their health insurance, though 36 percent have downloaded an app from their health plan, according to a new study from HealthSparq.

PBJ 100 2017: Here are Oregon’s fastest-growing private companies

Portland Business Journal The companies on the list combined for $3.2 billion in overall revenue in 2016. That’s a 33 percent jump from the combined 2015 revenue of companies on the list last year. It’s also double the amount of 2015’s Private 100 companies.

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HealthSparq’s Burt Rosen on Putting People First

Cambia Health Solutions In discussions about where health care is headed, people’s personal experiences are often left out of the conversation. As Burt Rosen said in a recent Portland Business Journal article"You can’t fix health care without people," “People are – and should be – where the conversation starts and ends.”

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You can’t fix health care without people

Portland Business Journal, Burt Rosen Not a day goes by that we don’t hear news from Washington about health care. Obamacare, repeal and replace, AHCA, single payer, and on and on. What we don’t hear enough about are the people who are impacted by the policies and debates.

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HealthSparq and WEGO Health Partner to Drive Healthcare Change from the Ground Up

PORTLAND, OR — May 23, 2017 – WEGO Health is now an official partner of HealthSparq’s What’s The Fix? (#WTFix) conference [Register Here], adding the power of the company’s 100,000 patient leaders, experts and advocates to a conference that will show how everyday people can change our broken healthcare system.

New HealthSparq and MedSavvy Partnership Gives People the Missing Pieces to the Healthcare Puzzle

HealthSparq and MedSavvy have teamed up to give people access to vital information they need to make important healthcare and medication choices. HealthSparq already helps health plan members understand all of their options when choosing a health provider – including cost and quality information based on their individual benefits. Now, the company is offering the same information for prescription drugs...

What’s The Fix? New Conference Aims to Kick the Hell out of Healthcare

This June, healthcare industry disrupters and everyday people will join together to kick the hell out of healthcare at the first-ever What’s The Fix? Conference. This one-of-a-kind conference is laser focused on changing the tough, cold and inefficient healthcare system we are stuck in today by featuring everyday people with big stories about how they turned their “WTF” healthcare moments...

WTF, OMG — and now — #WhatTheHealthcare

Health Care Dive, Guest Post by Burt Rosen I don’t think there is an industry that has elicited more “WTFs”, “OMGs” and other choice expletives than healthcare. Unfortunately, you can’t walk five feet without hearing a story of frustration, woe or anger. Sadly, it’s the norm, not the exception.

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