URAC Standards for Consumer Education and Support: What You Need to Know to Comply
Ever increasing healthcare costs is one of the driving forces behind a market movement toward healthcare consumerism, consciousness and accountability for personal healthcare. Given the novelty of this emerging trend, healthcare organizations are striving to make the transition easier and more comprehensible to those on which its success depends – consumers. Providing adequate consumer education and support tools is one of the challenges that plans offering consumer-driven healthcare plans are facing. Intending to maintain health quality, enhance personal assessment skills and contain healthcare costs, URAC has devised a set of voluntary accreditation guidelines to address this need. “URAC Standards for Consumer Education and Support: What You Need to Know to Comply” a July 26, 2005 audio conference sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN) offers a step-by-step analysis of URAC standards, detailing these precedents from implementation to intended outcome. During this 90-minute audio conference, expert speakers will walk consumer-driven healthcare plans through the new standards. The audio conference is scheduled for 1:30 p. m. to 3:00 p. m. Eastern time on July 26, 2005. For more details on attending the audio conference, please visit the HIN bookstore.
Manasquan, NJ (PRWEB) June 30, 2005
Ever increasing healthcare costs is one of the driving forces behind a market movement toward healthcare consumerism, consciousness and accountability for personal healthcare. Given the novelty of this emerging trend, healthcare organizations are striving to make the transition easier and more comprehensible to those on which its success depends – consumers.
Providing adequate consumer education and support tools is one of the challenges that plans offering consumer-driven healthcare plans are facing. Intending to maintain health quality, enhance personal assessment skills and contain healthcare costs, URAC has devised a set of voluntary accreditation guidelines to address this need.
“URAC Standards for Consumer Education and Support: What You Need to Know to Comply” a July 26, 2005 audio conference sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN) offers a step-by-step analysis of URAC standards, detailing these precedents from implementation to intended outcome. During this 90-minute audio conference, expert speakers will walk consumer-driven healthcare plans through the new standards. The audio conference is scheduled for 1:30 p. m. to 3:00 p. m. Eastern time on July 26, 2005. For more details on attending the audio conference, please visit the HIN bookstore.
“Consumer-driven healthcare is a fast-emerging trend with great potential,” said Melanie Matthews, the executive vice president and chief executive officer of HIN. “The new standards released by URAC are one of the first steps in long-term success of consumer driven healthcare plans,” she added.
Audio conference panelists include Annette Watson, vice president, URAC and Guy DÂ’Andrea, founder, Discern Consulting. These speakers will discuss implementation and implications of the new URAC standards, providing:
• A detailed overview of the new standards;
• Lessons learned from organizations who beta-tested the standards; and
• What health plans should begin to do now to comply with these standards.
This audio conference is scheduled for 1:30 p. m. to 3:00 p. m. Eastern time on July 26, 2005. It will conclude with a live question-and-answer period during which participants can address their questions about the new standards. A recorded version and printed transcript of this audio conference will be available on CD-ROM in early August. For those who cannot attend the audio conference, please visit the HIN bookstore for information on HIN’s “On-Demand” audio conference re-broadcasts.
This audio conference is designed to benefit key health plan executives, performance and quality improvement managers, business development and strategic planning directors, pharmaceutical executives and those responsible for consumer-driven healthcare plans. For more information on the conference, please email info@hin. com, call toll-free (888) 446-3530 or visit the HIN bookstore.
About the Healthcare Intelligence Network---HIN is the premier advisory service for executives seeking high-quality strategic information on the business of healthcare. For more information, contact the Healthcare Intelligence Network, PO Box 1442, Wall Township, NJ 07719-1442, (888) 446-3530, fax (732) 292-3073, e-mail info@hin. com, or visit http://www. hin. com (http://www. hin. com).
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