John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio. Areas of expertise include: ehealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, social media and project management. He is active in the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society and the American Medical Informatics Association. The opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author.
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Patient as Driver
June 7, 2007
Wayne A. Sensor is CEO of Alegent Health, Omaha, Neb. has written an article on the Most Wired website on “Taking the Wheel: Empowering Users to Make Informed Health Care Choices.” He utilizes the concept of patient as driver to draw attention to what he calls the last frontier for consumers, healthcare. “We must surround consumers with the information they need to complete the value equation: price plus quality equals value.” Adam Bosworth could not have said it better. Alegent has on their homepage two key tools which he would describe as patient empowerment tools
- MyCost – to help consumers understand their deductable and other out-of-pocket costs
- Quality Reports – detailed scorecard by disease
Every health system and hospital will be following leads like this to survive in this more transparent healthcare market where cost and quality will drive business.
