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Improving healthcare cost transparency through mobile application development

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PETRA '14: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

Article No.: 55, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674400

Published: 27 May 2014 Publication History

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Managing the rising costs of healthcare is of critical importance to both the public and private sectors. Those who need healthcare face a daunting challenge in determining the projected price of care as there is currently a lack of transparency with respect to obtaining the price of procedures from healthcare providers such as hospitals and labs. The price of a given medical procedure can vary by thousands of dollars depending on where it is performed, with patients often unable to compare prices and select the best one. Patients are often at a disadvantage when it comes to negotiating healthcare costs as the care may be of life or death importance to the patient. Higher healthcare costs put a greater financial burden on patients, insurers and employers. In order to increase healthcare price transparency and support patients in the search for quality healthcare, we have developed a mobile device application that compares the price of procedures at local hospitals based on publically available price data.

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PETRA '14: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

May 2014

408 pages

ISBN:9781450327466

DOI:10.1145/2674396

Conference Chair:
Fillia Makedon
University of Texas at Arlington
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Mark Clements
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Catherine Pelachaud
TELECOM ParisTech, France
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Vana Kalogeraki
Athens University of Economics and Bus
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Ilias Maglogiannis
University of Piraeus, Greece

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iPerform Center: iPerform Center for Assistive Technologies to Enhance Human Performance
CSE@UTA: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
HERACLEIA: HERACLEIA Human-Centered Computing Laboratory at UTA
U of Tex at Arlington: U of Tex at Arlington
NCRS: Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research
Fulbrigh, Greece: Fulbright Foundation, Greece

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Corradini AHansen MSavic T(2016)An Application for Measuring Frailty of Myeloma Cancer PatientsProceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments10.1145/2910674.2910695(1-4)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2910674.2910695

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