Healthcare

Wellness has emerged as a fairly umbrella term within the last 5 years. Factors for this include changing attitudes to control health cost by moving from defined benefit to defined contribution structures, and technology tools and transparencies that are shifting capitation from providers to consumers through increased consumer participation and re...

Beginning October 1, American citizens who do not have health insurance will be eligible to purchase standardized insurance coverage using the new health insurance marketplaces, formally referred to as health insurance exchanges (HIX). This offering will be administered either by their state, federal government, or a combination of both. CMS has re...

This study provides a roadmap for understanding the patient engagement movement and the use of patient portal technology by hospitals and physicians as the essential tool to drive that process. Included is an overview of macro trends in patient engagement and a comprehensive look at key features and functions associated with patient portals. Major ...

Digital health is an important area, which is expected to positively drive healthcare transformation and change the experience of all stakeholders in how they interact with technology and engage each other. This market insight presents some interesting points observed at the Digital Health Summer Summit, including the BlueStar announcement from We...

The 2014 rollout of the federal health insurance exchange (HIX) market is set to define some new limits for intrastate and interstate information transparency across insurance providers. Stemming from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the mandate for competitive insurance platforms are possibly the largest and most controversi...

The following market insight discusses Frost & Sullivan telehealth perspectives post ATA 2013. This includes observations and perspectives from the conference, topline survey findings on different issues in telehealth run by Frost & Sullivan, and other national trends centric to the industry.

This study provides a roadmap for understanding technology applications and collection services used in the physician revenue cycle management (RCM) market. Included is an overview of trends in physician demographics and medical practice organization, national health expenditures, and healthcare reform. The study discusses physicians' adoption of h...

This Special Edition issue of Vital Signs, released May 17, 2013, presents our review of the 2013 HIMSS Conference, recently held in New Orleans, LA. At HIMSS, various heath IT market participants come together to gain a comprehensive overview of the state of the health IT industry from the perspective of numerous and diverse stakeholders, includin...

This study provides a roadmap for understanding the hospital revenue management (RCM) market. Herein Frost & Sullivan provides an in-depth overview of the market including major government initiatives driving changes in the market, defines and describes major market segments including technology solutions and services used by hospitals, discusses t...