What does population health management insight look like? Is it myriad data sets whose yielded risk score accuracy and value exists independent of human expertise? Or does true insight require a mix of both human acumen and the latest technology available to…

For the modern broker, advanced data tools and predictive analytics may prove to be the difference-maker when it comes to closing the deal. But how do brokers differentiate themselves in a highly crowded market when seemingly every competitor has some sort of analytics…

Advanced Plan for Health (APH) recently published a blog briefly illustrating the value of nurse care navigators. Nurse care navigators provide self-funded employers with informed health plan management action items devised to improve health plan functionality. Most importantly, however, care management provides employees the…

Technology has significantly advanced within the healthcare industry over the past decade. From the Affordable Care Act to wearable device technology, healthcare is transitioning to a more comprehensive, accessible, interoperable and personalized way of managing population health. Employers, health insurance brokers and…

To keep health plan costs in check, it is imperative that benefits managers at self-funded companies have access to updated, accurate information about the specific costs of medical procedures, equipment and treatment, among other data points.  In fact, medical costs have increased…

For self-insured employers, one purpose of predictive analytics software is to tell a narrative – to expound on the history of an employee population’s health. Lab data, claims and biometrics data (to name just a few data-sets) are analyzed and structured in…

Identifying health plan risks is a multi-faceted, complex and daunting undertaking for self-insured companies who wish to proactively mitigate rising healthcare costs. However, even those employers who haven’t invested in claims data analysis can make quick, significant gains by addressing population health…

It’s no secret, every great war general knows that knowledge is power. In the fight against diseases that ravage a health plan, data is knowledge. The days when data analytics was viewed as an emerging trend, and its benefits known to only…

Most people would not participate in a 5K run without training. Yet folks go for elective surgery every day without building their nutritional status and improving their physical conditioning.  Studies over many years have shown the value of sound nutritional status on…