Consumer Driven Health Care

Some insurers are embracing the decades-old "quality-adjusted life year" method in drug price negotiations.

In this episode, Hugh O'Toole, CEO of Innovu, explains the process of cleaning data sets to set them up for proper analytics. He demonstrates how to utilize data sets to monitor and predict healthcare for employees, organize worker's compensation, and identify fraud within a system.

More than a quarter of consumers have avoided care or treatment because they were unsure of what their health insurance covered.

38 percent of HSA owners say they're contributing more than they have in previous years, according to a study from Alegeus.

As health systems increase market clout, employers' strategies to keep costs down become less effective.

The efforts appear to be early steps in the venture's goal of overhauling health-care benefits to make them more transparent.