How Employers Are Using the Internet to Manage Health Benefits: the eHealth Promise
- Topics:
- Healthcare Services
- Tags:
- Benefits,
- Software,
- Internet,
- Human Resources,
- Healthcare,
- Health2 Resources,
- Health Care,
- Health Benefit,
- Enterprise Software,
- E-health,
- ...
- Source:
- Health2 Resources
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Overview: While the Internet is a vast resource for health information and an unparalleled communications tool, there exists a clear division between its use for practical, transaction-based administrative capabilities and its still largely untapped potential for disease and care management. Employers are skeptical about the Internet's usefulness as a cost-saving tool. In its short lifespan the Web has already experienced a traumatic business cycle. Traditional business leaders are only now testing the waters for Internet-based health care applications, beginning with administrative functions which they hope will lower costs and improve service. As Internet companies demonstrate both stability and potential cost savings, more businesses will venture deeper into Web-based applications such as company-approved health information portals and disease management.
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Format: PDF | Size: 32KB | Date: Aug 2002 | Pages: 2
