Health Wisdom Podcast Episode #3: Connect Your Care, Health Consumerism, and HSA's

Click the audio player below to listen to episode #3 of The Health Wisdom Podcast from OrganizedWisdom, a 20-minute interview with Teresa O'Keefe, VP Marketing of Connect Your Care. 

Connect Your Care (a Revolution Health Group Company) provides tools and services that enable consumers to manage, spend, and save their healthcare account dollars, including Health Savings Accounts (HSA's), Health Payment Cards, and online services.

Topics covered include:

• Overview of Connect Your Care business
• Defining Consumer Directed Health Care, (or CDH).
• With more responsibility being placed on the consumer, how will the consumer be impacted? What are the advantages to this? What this trend ultimately means for consumers. The pros and cons for how these changes will impact their health care.
• New models creating incentives to help people be healthier.
• Defining an HSA, how they work. The future of the HSA and will they become easier to use.
• What else needs to change in the healthcare space to fill in the gaps here to create a full solution? Bill management? Information? etc.
• New innovation taking shape in healthcare: new products, services, new online health care solutions…and a wave of entrepreneurial ventures starting to compete with bigger players. How will these developments will evolve over the coming years and how will this change impact consumers?
•  Predictions for 2007 and the next few years...

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