Fixing the nation's broken healthcare system is clearly contingent on the strategic use of data aswell as transparent cost and quality information across the medicalsupply chain, several industry thought leaders suggested during arecent BenefitsPRO webcast, “The Future of Transparency: Can Data Fix HealthCare?“.

But realistic expectations are needed along the way to achievingbetter results. Asked about President Trump's latest executiveorder requiring hospitals to disclose their prices, for example, EPowered Benefits Founder and CEO David Contorno soundedskeptical.

“What we need desperately is an improvement in quality and adecrease in cost, and I can't find one example of something ourgovernment has taken over in which that has occurred,” he toldattendees.

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