Center for Health Solutions Research

More 2008-2011 Research

• 2009 Survey of Health Care Consumers
  
  The findings of our second annual study suggest that growing numbers of health care consumers want to be actively engaged. Learn more.
  
• 2010 U.S. Survey of Health Care Consumers: Key Findings
  
  Despite difficult economic times and the ongoing health care reform debate, consumers’ attitudes about the U.S. health care system remain largely unchanged from 2009 to 2010.
  
• 2011 U.S. and Global Survey of Health Care Consumers: Key Findings
  
  Regardless of the type of health care system, consumers around the world are feeling the pinch of health care spending as a household expense. Read the full report.
  
• Academic Medical Centers at a Tipping Point
  
  While driven to serve their tripartite mission of teaching, research and patient care, they are susceptible to myriad pressures that endanger their long-term viability. Learn what transformational change is needed to safeguard their future.
  
• Accountable Care Organizations: A New Model for Sustainable Innovation
  
  Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the potential to drive payment reform in the public and private health care sectors. This study explores the features, challenges and potential of ACOs.
  
• Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States: Update and implications
  
  This Issue Brief revisits Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) following the enactment of health care reform legislation and shares implications for stakeholders.
  
• Comparative Effectiveness: Health Care Policy Perspectives for Consideration
  
  Profile of systems in four developed countries that concludes if implemented correctly, comparative effectiveness has the potential to improve care & reduce health care costs for Americans. However, a cut-and-paste approach will not work in the U.S.
  
• Deloitte’s 2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers Uncovers Important Opportunities for Health Care Providers
  
  Health care “consumerism” has been a buzzword for years, but do health care providers and other industry stakeholders really understand how consumers’ behaviors, attitudes and unmet needs are evolving?
  
• Deloitte’s 2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers Uncovers Important Opportunities for Life Sciences Companies
  
  This paper from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, identifies challenges and opportunities based on the survey findings for the development and promotion of life sciences products and services.
  
• Episode-Based Payment: Perspectives for Consideration
  
  As experts explore ways to reduce U.S. health care spending, they cite fee for service, the predominant payment model in the U.S. health care system, as being a key contributor to spending growth and geographic variation unrelated to quality of care.
  
• Greening and Sustainability: A Growing Imperative Across Health Care Sectors
  
  Explore leading practices of companies in several industries with mature greening programs, and compare and them with the efforts of health care organizations.
  
• Health Care and Public Policy: What Do Americans Really Want?
  
  A consumers' take on health care reform
  
• Health Care Consumerism: 2008 Findings
  
  Learn about results from the "2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers" which asked people about their behaviors, attitudes and unmet needs toward health, health care and health insurance.
  
• Health Care Consumerism: Opportunities and Challenges for Health Plans
  
  Deloitte’s "2009 Survey of Health Care Consumers" offers insights for health plans to respond to the changing needs and preferences of their customer base, and strategies to use in responding to these opportunities and challenges.
  
• Health Reform and the Individual Insurance Market
  
  This Issue Brief offers a strategic assessment of the current and future individual insurance market that may assist states, health plans, and other stakeholders as they prepare for a dramatic uptick in enrollees and associated expectations.
  
• Home-based Care Management Programs Can Stem Rising Health Costs
  
  However, current self-care technologies lack integration with programs
  
• Medicaid Long-term Care: The Ticking Time Bomb
  
  This paper examines the effect of an aging population, growing fiscal pressures and health reform’s mandate on Medicaid LTC programs. It presents likely outcomes and innovative programs that may transform LTC services.
  
• Medicaid Medical Management: A Potential Savings for States Facing a Budget Crunch
  
  This report explores several ways in which states can use Medicaid medical management to control their Medicaid costs. Leading practices encompass two main categories: Clinical Population Care Management and Administrative Medical Management.
  
• Medical Home 2.0: The Present, the Future
  
  This paper – the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions’ second look at the medical home – discusses the state of PCMHs under new reform legislation and how they may evolve going forward.
  
• Medical Tourism: Emerging Phenomenon in Health Care Industry - 2008 Report
  
  Dramatically rising U.S. health care costs are prompting many consumers to consider outbound medical tourism as a viable care option. Read the report.
  
• Post Health Care Reform Perceptions: Consumer Pulse Survey
  
  According to a survey conducted by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions in May 2010, while the majority of consumers are satisfied with their current health care coverage, many have concerns about potential changes from PPACA.
  
• Primary Care: Today and Tomorrow
  
  With potentially 32 million newly insured seeking health care and a pending shortage of primary care physicians, this Issue Brief examines the challenges and barriers facing the U.S. health system.
  
• Privacy and Security in Health Care: A Fresh Look
  
  The health care industry is particularly susceptible to data fraud and medical identity theft due to the nature and content of the data it creates, collects, and stores.
  
• Reducing Costs While Improving the U.S. Health Care System: The Health Care Reform Pyramid
  
  A national perspective
  
• Retail Medical Clinics: Disrupting Models of Primary Care - 2008 Report
  
  Dramatically rising U.S. health care costs are prompting many consumers to consider outbound medical tourism as a viable care option.
  
• Retail Medical Clinics: Update and Implications - 2009 Report
  
  Receiving low-cost, non-urgent health care services at a retail clinic is an attractive alternative to traditional long waits in a physician’s office. Learn more.
  
• Retail Pharmacies Positioned to Capitalize on Disease Management Trends
  
  Potential market entry strategy: Collaborating with health plans or disease management vendors
  
• Social Networks in Health Care: Communication, collaboration and insights
  
  Public, Internet-based social networks can enable communication, collaboration and information collection and sharing in health care. This paper explores social networking’s current and potential impacts on the health care industry.
  
• Swine Flu Preparedness: Consumer Pulse Study Fact Sheet
  
  Consumers are surprisingly not as worried about the H1N1 virus, or Swine Flu, becoming a major threat as the headlines may suggest. See the survey results.
  
• The Fiscal Impact to States of the Affordable Care Act (ACA): Comprehensive Analysis
  
  Deloitte constructed plausible scenarios to identify cost/saving drivers and provide a range of the estimated per-person fiscal impact to states due to ACA requirements.