Creating a Healthcare System That Leverages Technology to Empower Patients

Technology is more integrated into our health than it has ever been. But even as technology has replaced paper record-keeping, the healthcare system remains too disconnected, the data too siloed, and the healthcare quality and efficiency too often stymied by disparate technology systems that can’t or won’t talk to one another.

Benefit and Cost Transparency

Each year, medication non-adherence causes 125,000 preventable deaths, an estimated $100 billion in preventable medical costs, and 33-69% of medication-related hospital admissions. Empowering patients with visibility and choice opens the door to person-centered healthcare and can produce immediate benefit for patients.

Patients should be able to easily access and direct their plan designed benefit, coverage and cost information in real time. We encourage states to require health plans and pharmacy benefit managers to provide real-time benefit and cost information at the point of prescribing and the pharmacy counter, increasing the likelihood that patients will start and continue their medication.