information asymmetry

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Blue Button Plus, Other Identifiers Can Reverse 'Information Asymmetry'

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | November 11, 2013

Providing patients with access to their own information and reasserting the primacy of the physician-patient relationship can reverse the "information asymmetry" that favors big healthcare corporations at the expense of patients and individual physicians, according to a post at The Health Care Blog. Read More »

Information Asymmetry – The Politics Of Health IT Policy

Adrian Gropper | The Health Care Blog | November 9, 2013

Let’s recognize Healthcare.gov as the dawn of mass patient engagement – and applaud it. Before this website, patients were along for the ride. Employers choose most of the insurance benefits, hospital web portals are an afterthought, and getting anything done with an insurance company, for both doctors and patients, means a phone call and paper. [...] Read More »