Healthcare in the age of technology, offers different tools for the consumer.
To prepare for healthcare technology, you have to understand what types of technology exist. For the individual, there are personal health tools, often in the form of wearables. Continue Reading
Health insurers can use HIT to help keep premium costs down, but other industries also benefit from healthcare IT advances:
For medical care providers – HIT is good because it creates greater personalization, and it allows for more consistency in the way health is treated. Continue Reading
Healthcare IT is increasingly complex because of the policy and regulation uncertainties that dominate industry strategic planning. Savvy CIOs have always understood that innovation arises from ambiguity, however, this is truer today than in the past. Continue Reading
Healthcare Information Technology enables the patient to affect their own health, from personal research to early prevention, to effective treatment.
It matters to the individual, because technology will give them new tools and new ways of thinking about themselves. It helps them with their personal research, with concurrent state monitoring–in other words: knowing what’s going on, and finally prevention through early detection. It matters for a patient because it allows them to lower their personal healthcare costs and improve their outcomes. And for the employer, it lowers their premium expenses allowing its employees to be more productive.
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Robert Booz
Healthcare IT Faculty, Healthcare Management & Insurance Studies
Robert H. Booz is a healthcare professional with extensive experience in policy analysis, business operations, and technology enablement. Author of over 125 research articles and having conducted over 2,000 client one-on-one inquiries, his strengths are analyzing the current challenges, emerging trends, and future opportunities of healthcare and the vendors that support them. He has been teaching at UConn for more than 15 years. View Posts
The jury is still out regarding the success of healthcare system based health plans. The flurry of activity surrounding the initial stages of the Affordable Care Act found more hospital systems exploring the move to a combined offering of financing and delivering care in related corporate entities. Continue Reading
Healthcare is on the forefront of technology.
Healthcare information technology, or HIT, is the use of computers to enable tools through the course of healthcare. It’s trying to figure out, ‘how can we make things more consistent, better, and more able to help patients?’ Continue Reading
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
11am – 3pm
Storrs Campus, Student Union Third Floor
For a full list of employers attending the fair, download the UConn Career Fair Plus app for Apple or Android, now the BEST way to view all the fair information!Continue Reading
Reforms, Not Revolution, May be Solution to College Debt Crunch
Crisis is the operative word that has focused massive attention on student debt.
The press has stoked the fires by highlighting the growing size of total student debt and featuring poignant stories of out-of-work graduates with massive debt burdens. Continue Reading
“What do you think the unemployment rate is for 25- to 34- year-olds who graduated from a four year college?” author Quoctrung Bui asked readers of the New York Times.
Hint: for those with only a high school degree, it was 7.4 percent in June 2016.
Before reading on, you should select a number. Continue Reading
New rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which took effect May 16, 2016, open many doors for “ordinary people” to invest in start-ups and other small businesses.
The issuers of the securities that they invest in will not need to affirm the investors’ financial sophistication nor provide them with audited financial statements. The underlying law was signed four years ago, but it has taken a while for the SEC to write the rules, all 685 pages of them. Continue Reading