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Health insurance companies (payers) are mostly optimistic about how massive changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect their business. There is no doubt that collaborating with Health Insurance Exchanges (HIX), implementing ICD-10 codes, and squeezing budgets to meet MLR requirements continue to be cause for stress. But in a recent study, [...]
Studies have shown that happiness is tied to six key personal factors: mental health, physical health, family experience, education, gender and age.1 Health is such an integral part of our happiness yet, paradoxically, healthcare is one area in which Americans have been highly complacent consumers. We spend more on healthcare than any other nation in [...]
I was recently speaking with our CMO, Anthony Christie, about the future of healthcare IT as we prepared for this week’s TEDMED event. As we contemplated a “brave new world” in which a doctor treating a tourist in the Caribbean could securely access that patients’ health records located in Minnesota, I wondered, “Wouldn’t it be [...]
Africa has 433 million cell phone subscriptions and only 12 million landlines. Africans have enthusiastically adopted mobile technology because it is accessible, scalable, cost effective and most importantly – it is available. When technologies emerge that make our lives easier and more connected, we adopt them - so should healthcare. By not investing in cloud solutions, [...]
The practicality of EHRs and meaningful use incentives will be hot topics at HIMSS, March 3-7, 2013, in New Orleans. That’s understandable given the political and economic climate we are experiencing and see on the horizon. There’s a sea change swelling in healthcare these days, driven by the Affordable Health Care Act and enabled by [...]
In order to gain further insight into the future of healthcare IT and the trends driving the industry, Level 3 commissioned a nationwide study of 100 healthcare CIOs and IT executives. Conducted in late 2012 by independent research firm Corona Insights, the findings from the study paint an interesting picture of the priorities and challenges [...]
In the wake of the recent presidential election, we now know the future of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama administration remains steadfast in its support of the landmark legislation, which aims to pave the way for affordable healthcare for all Americans. A major contingency of the law is that each state is required to [...]
As we mentioned in our blog post on Monday, this is National Health IT Week 2012 and Level 3 Communications has partnered with organizations across the United States to spotlight the critical role that information technology plays in healthcare today, as well as the increasingly important role it will play in the future. Our previous post [...]
This week, Level 3 Communications is joining healthcare and technology companies across the United States to celebrate National Health IT Week 2012, which places a spotlight on the critical role health information technology (IT) plays in improving care, increasing patient safety, reducing medical errors, and enhancing collaboration among healthcare providers. Gone are the days when [...]
Quiz time! See if you can match up these pharmaceutical companies with the country where they are headquartered (answers below): 1) Novartis 2) Pfizer 3) Novo Nordisk 4) GlaxoSmithKline 5) Sanofi-Aventis _________________________ a.) United Kingdom b.) Switzerland c.) Denmark d.) France e.) United States Modern pharmaceuticals may have humble beginnings, but since the invention of [...]
