Entries Tagged as 'Rational Choice'

March 5, 2008

Health 2.0: The Long Tail of Health Care

Long Tail (lông tāl)

New business phenomenon in which low distribution and storage cost enable significant profits to be realized by selling small volumes of niche items instead of large numbers of popular items.
The potential for online retailers to make more money than their bricks and mortar counterparts because there is virtually unlimited “shelf [...]

January 28, 2008

The New Network - Hello, Carol!

Medical Network (mĕd’ĭ-kəl nĕt’wûrk‘ ;) 1. A group of health care providers who have organized themselves to provide care
2. Provider organizations who voluntarily group together and are utilized by insurance companies to seek discounted pricing in exchange for additional volume of patients for the provider.

I am pleased to comment on the “grand opening” of [...]

June 14, 2007

Priming the Pump: Jumpstarting Healthcare Consumerism

Jumpstart (jŭmp stärt) v.

Starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car
Start or re-start in a vigorous manner
Start something by tapping into another source of power

A recent report by the Wall Street Journal casts some concern over the vitality and validity of the entire consumer driven health [...]

April 30, 2007

Who’s Driving?: Consumer Empowered Healthcare

Empower (ĕm-pou’ər)

To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.
To equip or supply with an ability; to enable.

I am attending The Consumer Driven Health Care Conference this week in Las Vegas (I also stopped by for a few minutes at the Healthcare Blogging Conference as well). It is great to see [...]