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There is no shortage of tech-fueled innovation circulating throughout the healthcare ecosystem. The key is understanding how to leverage that technology and information.

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Data, Privacy, and Silicon Valley
Health & Benefits | Jan. 23, 2020 | Healthcare, Healthcare data, Healthcare data & technology

January 23, 2020 Last year, Google and Ascension, a 2,600-facility health system, secretly embarked on Project Nightingale, a tool that stores and aggregates patient information and medical data. Read the

Government Affairs Roundup: The Latest on Healthcare Policy
Health & Benefits | May. 16, 2019 | ACA, Access to Care, Employer Sponsored Insurance, Government Affairs, Healthcare, Healthcare costs, Healthcare data, Healthcare reform, Payment reform, Prescription Drug Pricing, Pricing transparency, Single Payer, state activity, Surprise Medical Billing, Technology

Surprise Medical Billing Broad bipartisan support from the Trump administration as well as Congress has created momentum around surprise medical billing. Earlier this week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee

Webinar: Tools You Can Use to Dig into National Prescription Drug Pricing
Council Brief, Health & Benefits, Webinar | Mar. 21, 2019 | Healthcare, Healthcare costs, Healthcare data, Healthcare data & technology, PBM, Pharmacy supply chain, Prescription Drug Pricing, Pricing transparency

March 21, 2019 The Council’s Katie Oberkircher spoke with Eric Pachman and Antonio Ciaccia, co-founders of 46Brooklyn—a prescription drug research firm—to demonstrate how to use the tools they’ve created to

Member Q&A with Kyle Anthony: Accessing & Leveraging Healthcare Data
Health & Benefits | Jan. 25, 2019 | Employer Sponsored Insurance, Healthcare costs, Healthcare data, Healthcare data & technology, Value Based Care

January 25, 2019 Member Q&A with Kyle Anthony, Director of Human Capital Practice at Oswald Companies Historically, brokers have focused on improved access and utilization of claims data. However, it

Tech Giants Poised to Shift Healthcare Landscape
Health & Benefits | Dec. 5, 2018 | Access to Care, Healthcare costs, Healthcare data, Healthcare data & technology, Healthtech, Payment reform, Pharmacy supply chain, Prescription Drug Pricing, Pricing transparency, Quality, Value Based Care

December 5, 2018 Tech companies are banging down the doors of the healthcare industry, infiltrating different pieces of a complicated system in an effort to inject innovation into care delivery

InsureTech Connect from the Broker’s Perspective
Oct. 19, 2018 | Broker Activity, Healthcare costs, Healthcare data, Healthcare data & technology, Healthtech

October 19, 2018 InsureTech Connect (ITC), the world’s largest gathering of insurance and technology innovators, took place October 1-3 in Las Vegas, and The Council was in attendance for the

Listening In: A Conversation with Seema Verma, CMS
Aug. 30, 2018 | Access to Care, CMS, Healthcare data, Payment reform, Pricing transparency, Quality, Value Based Care

August 30, 2018 Leavitt Partners, a Salt lake City-based healthcare consulting firm, hosted a conversation with Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Seema Verma, about value-based healthcare. Here’s

Healthcare and Big Data at the State Level: All-Payer Claims Databases (APCDs)
Health & Benefits | Aug. 9, 2018 | Healthcare costs, Healthcare data, Healthcare data & technology, Pharmacy supply chain, Pricing transparency, state activity, Value Based Care

August 9, 2018 What do Colorado, Arkansas, Delaware and Virginia have in common? In the spirit of transparency, these states, along with 15 others, are striving to systematically collect and