"Why Healthcare Matters" Perspectives
Ideas and Observations on Consumer-Centric Healthcare Change
About Frank Hone and Why Healthcare Matters
A leading advocate and practitioner of Healthcare Consumerism, Frank Hone has recently joined Healthways, the Nashville-based health improvement company. He is their Sustainable Engagement Leader, responsible for to help increase program enrolment and consumer involvement. Through the years he has been involved in numerous advertising and marketing initiatives designed to promote consumer-based healthcare solutions.
His book, Why Healthcare Matters, offers a big picture perspective on the many problems with healthcare in the US, and provides a set of practical, market-based strategies and solutions geared to employers to utilize with their workforce.
There are real-world solutions to the enormously complex challenges of improving healthcare quality and outcomes, and many of them revolve around greater personal responsibility for one’s own health. Employers can help drive this, and if done well, they stand to gain much in terms of increased productivity, a true culture of health and increased opportunity for better retention and recruitment.
Frank was also Founder and CEO of Healthcentric Partners, Inc., a Healthcare Consumerism Strategy and Training company designed to help employers develop and deliver communications plans that drive behavior change.
Here on the blog look for our perspectives on topical health-related issues being talked about in the media.
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