| Website | healthoptionsworl... |
| @how_worldwide | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 877-234-1345 |
| Employees | 5 |
| Founded | 12/08 |
| Description | Healthcare Management System |
| TOTAL | $400k |
| VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL | $400k |
| Angel, 1/11 | $400k |
Health Options Worldwide (HOW) is an online healthcare management company that delivers integrated solutions to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery and improve individual health.
Healthcare costs in the U.S. simply can’t continue to rise at the current rate. Today, health care consumes 17 percent of our economy and that is figure projected to jump to 20 percent within just the next five years.
However, when employers and insurers look for ways to control health care costs, their choices often range from bad (raising co-pays and premiums) to worse (cutting benefits.)
With Health Options Worldwide (HOW), health care payers now have another option, unlike anything that currently exists in the marketplace. Our online healthcare management tools have been proven to reduce costs while actually improving patient satisfaction.
Clients who work with HOW can expect to: • Reduce health care costs. In some cases, our system has been shown to reduce surgical costs alone as much as 30 to 50 percent. • Improve overall employee health. More than just a cost issue, employee health impacts every aspect of a business, from fewer absences and disability claims to improved performance and productivity.
How do we do it?
HOW uses its proprietary technology to help clients stay a step ahead of health care expenses by:
• Identifying at-risk members
• Analyzing provider data to easily discover the most optimal health care solutions
• Encouraging low-cost, proactive health care to reduce the likelihood of surgery
• Recommending affordable healthcare and surgical options around the world
• Helping members take advantage of preventive care and wellness programs
How does our system work? We create a secure and HIPAA compliant personal electronic health record for each employee or member. Next, using our state-of-the-art predictive algorithms and data-mining techniques, we identify expensive patients and deploy preventive clinical programs to keep them healthy and out of the hospital.
What are the results? Working with HOW, clients help their employees or members prevent or reverse chronic diseases, greatly reducing the likelihood of expensive future surgical intervention.
