Dear Colleagues, In this issue, RD Whitney, CEO of Validation Institute (VI), a membership organization made up of a network of health care vendors, health benefits advisors, and purchaser benefit managers focused on delivering better health value and stronger outcomes than conventional healthcare, describes the innovators and companies that are using

Dear Colleagues, In this issue, we talk with Lawrence Thompson & Stephen Manzelli, co-founders, Inventavis, serving a wide range of customers through innovative, expert strategic guidance on a variety of business elements including new customer markets, programs, services and products for the Health plan vertical. In this exclusive interview, Thompson and Manzelli discuss the development of

Dear Colleagues, In this issue, we talk with Katelyn O’Shaughnessy, Founder & CEO, Doctours, to discuss how easy it can be on a patient’s mind and wallet to travel abroad for a medical procedure. O’Shaughnessy also discusses her interest in Bumrungrad International Hospital in Thailand. This issue also brings you news on the

Dear Colleagues, We welcome back Jonathan Slotkin, MD, FAANS, Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Geisinger-Walmart COE Program, as he continues his conversation with us on centers of excellence, this time focusing on how employers select a Center of Excellence and the role international hospitals play. This issue also brings you

Dear Colleagues: In this exclusive interview, you will meet Rick Louie, Principle, Hospital Pricing Specialists, LLC, which is a boutique data analytics company that benchmarks hospital prices for hospital CFOs and strategic pricing consultants. Louie explains how he addressed the need for specialized data in hospitals to create boardroom-level reports and analytics for the C-suite at

Dear Colleagues: In this exclusive interview, you will meet Reid Rasmussen, Co-founder and CEO, freshbenies which increases access to care and allows customers to save hundreds to thousands with telehealth, doctors online, advocacy, Rx savings and more Rasmussen grew concerned about the out-of-pocket costs that he was seeing on medical plans being installed

Dear Colleagues: In this exclusive interview, you will meet Ryan Coplon, Co-founder, HealthWallet which is a mobile solution working to consolidate convenience and transparency, offering employers the most comprehensive cost containment and concierge mobile healthcare tools currently available on the market today. According to Coplon, the HealthWallet app contains four pieces of functionality:

Dear Colleagues: In this exclusive interview, you will meet Cathy Nenninger, CEO, New World Medical Network, which is run by experienced healthcare and insurance professionals and caters to the self-insured marketplace. According to Nenninger, employers are losing employees because they are cutting their benefits and looking for ways to improve their offerings without

Dear Colleagues: In this exclusive interview, you will meet Mike Erhart, Co-Founder, Welloh, a new mobile app designed to help people navigate healthcare service options and make informed purchase choices.  According to Erhart, Welloh is like the Yelp of urgent care. With its ability to find a user’s current location, a list of

Dear Colleagues, In this exclusive interview, you will meet Gary Wald, CEO, and Dr. Maria Kunstadter, DDS, co-founders, The TeleDentists. Dr. Kunstadter has led and participated in over 24 medical mission trips worldwide since 1982 and has been in private practice of dentistry for over 30 years. Gary Wald is credited with