Employers and the Healthcare Marketplace

Psychosocial Workplace Factors and Healthcare Utilization: A Study of Two Employers

Background While a large literature links psychosocial workplace factors with health and health behaviors, there is very little work connecting psychosocial workplace factors to healthcare utilization.   Methods Survey data were collected from two different employers using computer-assisted telephone interviewing as a part of the Work-Family Health Network (2008-2013): one in the information te...

EPOS: e-PROCUREMENT OPTIMIZED SYSTEM FOR THE HEALTHCARE MARKETPLACE

This paper focuses on efficient e-procurement mechanisms that enable hospitals and pharmaceutical suppliers to electronically exchange contractual information, aided by the technologies of optimisation and business rules. E-procurement offers hospitals and ambulatory facilities several notable advantages: convenience, efficiency, broad selection, favourable pricing, information on new products ...

Key Strategic Trends that Impact Healthcare Decision-Making and Stakeholder Roles in the New Marketplace.

How to present the business case for healthcare quality to employers.

Many employers in the US are investing in new programmes to improve the quality of medical care and simultaneously shifting more of the healthcare costs to their employees without understanding the implications on the amount and type of care their employees will receive. These seemingly contradictory actions reflect an inability by employers to accurately assess how their health benefit decisio...

Economic Implications of Defined Contribution Health Plans: Their Impact on Employers, Insurers, Employees, and Healthcare Providers

Article: Employee health benefits are a major payroll expense for companies that provide them. During the 1980s and 90s, many employers moved workers into managed care programs to control costs. However, the ability of those mechanisms to contain healthcare inflation has run its course. Significant rate hikes in 2002 will cause some large employers to increase employee contributions anywhere fr...