The team over at Pinney Insurance (www.pinneyinsurance.com) is hosting a Free Webinar for Insurance Agents on ‘Harnessing the Internet, Social Media, & Mobile Technology to Thrive!’
Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/
Billions in life, annuities, and investments were sold online last year alone. How much of that did you manage to capture? Learn from our expert panel how they personal sold over 30 million in life insurance and wrote over a 100 million in annuities and investment transactions last year.
Our Panelists for this 90 minute presentation include:
Jeff Rose, CFP is a Social Media Superstar and blogging sensation who runs one of the most successful financial blogs (GoodFinancialCents.com) on the internet and has collected millions in AUM, annuities, and life sales using his blog to attract and convert prospects into clients and raving fans.
Ryan Pinney is a recognized expert at using technology and the power of the internet and social media to drive business. His firm sold more than 16,000 policies online last year and provided 1,000′s of agents with the same tools he used to do it.
Nic West is a master on the phone and working internet leads for life insurance. Over the past 7 years he has sold more than 6,000 policies direct to consumer – never meeting one of his clients face-to-face –and has helped 100′s of agents learn to do the same.
Jeff Root consistently turns aged leads, those 30, 60, even 90 days old into GOLD – all at a fraction of the cost of other traditional lead sources. His uses of technology and proven methods have given other advisors the Midas Touch as well.
Ben Bloom, LUTCF, CLTC has learned how to harness the power of Facebook and LinkedIn to get the most from his clients and prospects. He has personally walked the line with compliance and regulatory issues and can show you how to do the same.
Presented By: NAIFA Northern California (YAT)
Hosted By: Pinney Insurance
Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/
Title: Making Millions with 21st Century Technology: Harnessing the Internet, Social Media, & Mobile Technology to Thrive!
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PST
From Rip Emerson of TechCrunch
Founded in 1945, California-based Kaiser Permanente is one of the largest not-for-profit managed care consortiums and health plan providers in the country, with 9 million members, nearly 170K employees, 15K physicians, 35 medical centers, and 430+ medical offices under its fold. Yesterday, the health care organization announced the release of a free Android app and mobile-optimized website through which its millions of members can access their own medical information on the go.
This means that Kaiser Permanente patients can get full access to the company’s health record system and all that comes with it, which they already could do through kp.org, from their mobile devices. In 2011, Kaiser more than 68 million lab test results available online to their patients, and through the Android app and mobile web app, patients can now get 24/7 access to lab results, diagnostic information, direct and secure email access to doctors, schedule appointments, and order prescription refills.
The company plans to release an app for iOS in the next few months, but in the meantime, non-Android users can get access to the same set of secure tools through its new mobile-optimized website through their devices’ browsers. What’s more, the apps also make it possible for family members and other care providers to get access on behalf of patients and accomplish the same tasks that they could at kp.org. This is great for people who are traveling and need to receive care from non-Kaiser Permanente providers.”
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From the Aetna Website
on their Brand Change:
Our Brand Story
The way we look at health care is changing. At Aetna, we are working every day to better meet your needs and see health care from your perspective. We want to make it easier for you to live healthier.
Connecting you to healthier living.
We want to be there for you when and where you need us. With tools like Aetna’s Mobile App you can access your health records, view claims, get reminders for tests, find in-network doctors all from your smart phone. With our Payment Estimator, you can see, compare and choose costs before you go to a doctor. And Aetna’s Personal Health Record helps keep all your family medical records in one, secure place. It can even alert you about potential medical issues.
Knowing about your health and your family’s health should be second nature. Feeling confident about your health decisions should be the norm. Living healthier should be easier. We want to help you get there.
Our new logo reflects this promise.
Vibrant. Energetic. Flexible. It shows our passion for helping you feel confident in your health care decisions, fitting into your life, and making it easier for you to live healthier. Connecting you to quality health plans, healthier living, financial well-being, and intelligent solutions.
With Aetna, the power of health is in your hands.
Aetna is the brand name used for products and services provided by one or more of the Aetna group of subsidiary companies, including Aetna Life Insurance Company and its affiliates (Aetna).
From Rip Emerson of TechCrunch:
“Technology is in the process of bringing change to every piece of the health industry — wellness, fitness, healthcare, medicine — you name it. And as it always seems with introduction of new technologies, it’s awe-inspiring how quickly they can transform entire industries yet, at the same time, make us realize just how far we have to go (or how far behind we really are). The health industry has been touched (and defined) by cutting-edge technology for years, yet its relics, legacy infrastructure, paper-pushing, and archaic procedures are as obvious today as ever before.
Nonetheless, today, we really seem to be at an inflection point. (Or do we hear that every year?) The current landscape is full of inspiring examples of how technology is changing the most fundamental aspects of how we keep track of our own health, how we approach diagnostics, treatment, and more. Earlier this month, Josh laid out six trends in healthtech that could have a big impact on medicine in 2012, and last week veteran Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla wrote an epic analysis of the significant role “Doctor Algorithm” could play in changing the literal and metaphorical face of healthcare. It’s pretty exciting, if not a little frightening….”
Read the rest of the Article Here
One of the best lines in Television Commercial History…Also one of the best campaigns in tv history.
From our Friends over at TechCrunch:
HMS Buys Healthcare Services Company HealthDataInsights For $400 Million
“HMS Holdings has acquired technology-driven healthcare services company HealthDataInsights (HDI) for approximately $400 million.
According to the press release, the transaction is not contingent upon financing and is expected to close by year’s end, pending regulatory approvals.
HealthDataInsights investor GRP Partners owned a 30 percent stake in the company, blogs partner Mark Suster, who shares more details.
The $400 million HMS is paying for HealthDataInsights will consist of $384 million in cash, paid at closing, and approximately $16 million in consideration in the form of assumption of unvested options.
HDI’s technology ensures claims integrity and is capable of identifying – and recouping – improper payments for health plans and government payers. The company says it has reviewed more than $300 billion in paid claims in 2010 alone.
HDI is the exclusive Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) in 17 states and three United States territories (CMS Region D), covering approximately 22 percent of all Medicare claims in the nation.
HDI is projected to contribute approximately $85 million of revenue to HMS in 2012. The company will become a wholly-owned HMS subsidiary and HDI founder and CEO Andrea Benko will join the HMS executive team.
HealthDataInsights employs approximately 400 people located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and facilities in California and Florida.”
Just downloaded FastCustomer and will start to play around with it. But what a great idea and tool for Insurance Agents on so many levels. Great tool to tell Clients and Prospects about if they are need to call Carrier Customer Service or maybe Agents can use to call Carrier Agent help lines (but may not be available). Either way in both personal and professional lives, this can be very handy.
Notice in the demo whom is the first company shown? Hint: Anthem
TechCrunch.com Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the founder of Microsoft’s Health business. You can follow him on Twitter @chasedave.
“Historically, in the U.S. Healthcare system, a primary way to differentiate oneself as a healthcare provider has been to have impressive physical assets such as newly built clinics/hospitals/wings and medical equipment. This is logical when the legacy reimbursement model has incentivized activity (procedures, tests, prescriptions) instead of positive health outcomes. Anything that can be done that will create more activity creates more billing opportunities.
However, the DIY Health Reform movement has recognized the flawed fee-for-service reimbursement model has been responsible for healthcare’s hyperinflation. Some of the most interesting healthcare provider startups such as MedLion, National Surgery Network and One Medical Group are using IT rather than expensive equipment/facilities to differentiate themselves and affordably deliver superior health outcomes.
With one third of the workforce being permanent freelancers, contractors, consultants and entrepreneurs, individuals are compelled to directly buy healthcare rather than rely on their employer as they have in the past. The percentage of people directly buying their own healthcare will approach 50% as more employers opt out of providing health benefits as they get priced out (most have already reduced the percentage of the health premium they cover). Thus, consumerism is beginning to pervade healthcare like never before.”
This last paragraph was most interesting as it pertains to Agencies and Agents as with more shoppers means more need for help from Agents. Granted one would think that those selling Group Health would be first in line if an Employer is going to drop coverage from a group perspective and let their employees search out individual. But those Agencies and Agents whom are selling soley Individual Health, there might be an opportunity to grow a book of business.
Read the entire Article at TechCrunch..
