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Report:The Forrester Wave™: CDHP Platforms, Q2 2009

Several New Leaders Emerge In A Rapidly Maturing Market

In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) platform vendors, we found a tight group of four Leaders with proven ability to serve multiple stakeholders well and to...

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Report:Consumer Engagement In Personal Healthcare Finance Dropped In 2008

Healthcare Marketers Have An Uphill Battle Ahead Of Them

According to Forrester's North American Technographics® Healthcare Online Survey, Q2 2008, 39% of non-elderly commercially insured adults in the US now own a health spending account. This...

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Report:The Next Wave Of Individual Purchasers: The (Recently) Uninsured

What does the average uninsured person in the US look like? Are there differences among this population? Is there a real market opportunity for healthcare eBusiness managers hoping to gain individual...

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Report:Individual Purchasers Of Health Insurance Want Control

The Demographic Profiles And Attitudes Of US Individual Purchasers Of Health

Who's purchasing individual insurance? And why? To answer these and other questions, we looked at Forrester's North American Technographics® Healthcare Online Survey, Q2 2008. We found that...

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Report:A Look At The Year Ahead: eBusiness Will Be Crucial To Health Insurers

2009 Will Be A Time Of Uncertainty And Transition In The Healthcare Industry

A recession is hitting US consumers hard as the financial crisis continues to send ripples across US and global economies. Most US industries are feeling the effects —banks, retailers, auto...

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Report:Consumers Sound Off On Health Savings Accounts

Unrest Is Looming Behind A Deceptively Positive Attitude Among HSA Owners

The so-called consumer-directed health (CDH) market has opened a new door for financial services firms. Health savings accounts (HSAs) are the controversial but quickly growing financial "half" of...

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Report:Canopy Financial Acquires CareGain

Consolidation Continues In A Highly Competitive Market

Canopy Financial, a technology solutions provider in the consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) market, announced on October 15, 2008, that it had acquired CareGain — a key competitor —...

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Report:The Truth About Consumer-Directed Health Plans

HSAs Swell To More Than 6 Million Accounts And More Than $8 Billion In Assets

The so-called consumer-directed health (CDH) market plunges its roots deeper into the health insurance industry as US employers continue to fight the rising costs of healthcare and more consumers...

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Report:Payer-Provider Connectivity: How Far Have We Come, And Where Are We Going?

Multipayer Portals Are Emerging As Providers' Preferred Channel

Payer-provider connectivity remains quite fragmented in the US. As the feds gear up for the inaugural trial of a nascent Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) in late 2008, many payers and...

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Report:How To Use The Web To Attract And Retain Individual Health Plan Membership

Forrester Exposes Glaring Lack Of Loyalty In A Highly Price-Sensitive Market

Individual consumers seeking health coverage are increasingly going online to find it, but today, many health insurers' Web sites are ill-prepared to turn these visitors into profitable members....

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Healthcare Claims Platforms, Q1 2008

TriZetto And DST Health Solutions Lead In A Highly Consolidated Market

Following significant consolidation in the healthcare claims platform space over the past two years, Forrester evaluated eight products among the remaining four leading vendors across 61 criteria....

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Report:Are Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits Eroding?

A Joint Forrester And Employee Benefit News Study Shows That Benefits Richness Declines As HSAs Gain Steam

The 2007 Employee Benefit News/Forrester Research Benefits Decisions' Impact Study of more than 900 benefits professionals examines employers' overall benefits strategies. One of the top concerns...

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Report:CDHP Product Managers: Re-Examine Your Platform Options

Express Scripts' Acquisition Of ConnectYourCare Ensures Long-Term Viability

On October 11, 2007, Express Scripts, Inc. (ESI) — one of the largest pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) in the US — announced its acquisition of ConnectYourCare (CYC). Although we ranked...

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Report:The $115 Billion Individual Health Insurance Opportunity

A Market That Is Ripe For The Picking

The individual health insurance market is slowly but steadily growing, driven by the gradual erosion of employer-sponsored coverage, the rising population of uninsured, and a government that...

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Report:Why Health Plan Consumer Portals Need A Makeover

A Call For eBusiness Professionals To Respond To Industry Transformation

The needs of online healthcare consumers are evolving, and many of the tools that plans make available to them aren't keeping up. The good news is that consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) members...

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Report:Health Savings Accounts: The Battleground For Customer Loyalty

Market penetration for health savings accounts (HSAs) among US households is gaining momentum. Even an impending presidential election, in which healthcare reform is a top priority, cannot break the...

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Report:CRM For Health Insurers: Some Assembly Required

Forrester defines customer relationship management (CRM) as a set of business processes and supporting technologies that is used to acquire, retain, and enhance customer relationships. While...

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Report:Healthcare: The New Retail Frontier

CVS's Acquisition Of Caremark Represents An Industry Transformation

On the surface, the recent acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) Caremark by CVS/pharmacy may seem a bit superficial. However, Forrester believes that this event is representative of...

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Report:Blue Healthcare Bank Puts The Blues In The Game

Approval From Feds Levels The Playing Field In The CDHP Market

Fourteen months after it announced plans to get into the banking business, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has received federal approval of its application for a federal savings...

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Report:Will Plans Abandon $1.4B In Annual CDHP Profits?

Health Plans' Service Issues Will Cause Market Deceleration If Ignored

Recent evidence shows that consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) are beginning to gain market share faster than Forrester predicted in 2003. However, enrollees in these plans will demand improved...

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