Health Wisdom Podcast Episode #4: A New Way to Handle Medical Bills...
If you want more proof that there is a wave of innovation, progress and passion hard at work to transform healthcare today, then you won't want to miss this podcast with Christopher Parks and check out the online service he founded recently called MedBillManager.com.
Click this link to listen to the podcast: Download MedBillManagerPodcast011607.mp3
MedBillManager is a new web application that makes dealing with medical bills easier and allows you to compare what you're paying vs. others in your area. It's a young entrepreneurial start-up, but the company is already making waves by taking on established products from Intuit and launching before a new service from Revolution Health Group.
The MedBillManager vision is strong in that as the community continues to grow, the collective participation of all the users will provide valuable aggregate data to help people better understand what others in their area are paying for the same exact treatments. There is little doubt that this type of transparency should help to start to level the palying field in interesting ways.
For another interview with Christopher Parks, check out this interview at Six Until Me, a diabetes blog.
I just wanted to let you know that the Revolution Health site is currently allowing people to visit their preview site http://www.revolutionhealth.com/preview?code=LL7UjuNn05
In addition to the normal site features, Revolution Health also has a membership offering. The membership includes access to their Medical Bill Management software. Memberships is currently free for 2007.
Posted by: Christian (Revolution Health employee) | January 19, 2007 at 04:13 PM
Unity - thanks for the opportunity to participate on your podcast! OW is growing tremendously fast and I hope that all of our users continue to join OW and garner the value that I have about my own health issues. OW is easy, intuitive, and a fantastic community.
Also, Christian - thanks for offering the free preview of Revolution. Several of the Revolution team have participated in our development process and I've really appreciated their feedback as we began offering MedBillManager to the public. I think a lot of the gang over there at SimoHealth and know that if anyone would prefer to use a downloaded bill manager vs. MedBillManager's online tool that they should seriously consider trying yours out.
My perspective is anything we (MedBillManager, Revolution, Intuit and others) can offer consumers something that can assist and support individuals as they deal with their own health issues is a good thing. There is still a tremendous amount of work that needs to be done and hopefully, we all can learn from each other and improve the quality, intuitiveness, and value that our tools provide to people and their caregivers. Believe me, if healthcare was easy to fix... it would have been done along time ago.
Unity - thank again, you're the best!
sincerely,
christopher
www.medbillmanager.com
Posted by: christopher parks | January 19, 2007 at 05:15 PM