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From Villain to Savior: Today’s Health Plans in the Age of Reform
Health plans face the challenge of translating the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into actionable steps that will not merely sustain their viability but increase their share of a volatile market. The key to success will be to understand the business opportunities that exist within the new law and to act quickly, creatively and fearlessly to reinvent themselves as technology — and intelligence — driven enablers of a reformed healthcare system.

Systems Replacement: From Business Challenge to Business Opportunity
Consumer centricity, collaboration and transparency are the watchwords of the new health insurance world. Payers must become easier to work with and give providers, brokers and consumers the information they need to make better healthcare decisions as well as provide higher levels of service — all while keeping premium increases to a minimum. A successful future requires that the center of the application portfolio extend beyond the claims system to include the applications that externalize information and processes to more fully support payers’ top priorities.

The High-Efficiency Health Plan: A Survival Strategy
Current market trends have introduced a new urgency to health plans and an accompanying openness to investigate the offerings of information technology innovators that represent enormous potential to help plans thrive even in the existing environment of economic and reform uncertainty. The most exciting component of these newer offerings is their ability to create a single intelligent ecosystem — comprising health plan staff, members, providers, employers and brokers — that feeds on the same information and fluidly responds in a way that benefits the ecosystem as a whole.