HealthSparq provides technology to health plans that allows their members to view cost and quality information for medical providers and services wherever they are. Plans can also utilize HealthSparq’s API technology to augment their own native or hybrid mobile apps with personalized, benefits-specific information on treatments and out-of-pocket costs.
“We took the time to talk to real people so we can bring smarter apps and mobile capabilities to our health plan partners and ensure we are being as relevant and in-the-moment as possible for their members,” said Rosen. “We see a number of ways plans can innovate — like applying more advanced cost and quality tools, interactive benefit data and bot-assisted guidance – to give consumers a great mobile experience. It’s also fascinating to see how people use their phones and desktops differently to manage their care.”
The survey also looked at mobile app download drivers, user preferences and mobile vs. desktop activities. For those people who use both mobile and desktop to manage their health, they use mobile to accomplish quicker tasks (paying premiums and looking up covered services) and desktops to accomplish more time-consuming and/or complex tasks (reviewing claims).
To download the associated white paper, “How to Build a More Powerful Mobile Experience,” visit healthsparq.wpengine.com.
About HealthSparq At HealthSparq, we help people make smarter health care choices by partnering with health plans to provide members with cost and quality information about doctors, hospitals and medical services, based on their individual benefits. We put people at the core of everything we do by conducting continuous usability testing, eliciting consumer feedback to enhance product development, hosting industry panels featuring everyday people, and bringing human stories to the forefront. Using these insights, we create solutions to help people understand and navigate the health care system better than ever before.
Growing since our founding in 2008 from our home in Portland, Oregon, we now serve more than 70 health plans and their 74 million members nationwide. Interested in helping us kick the hell out of health care? Contact us at HealthSparq.com or tweet us @HealthSparq.
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