Escaping the Healthcare Prison

Gary Prala

Welcome to Escaping the Healthcare Prison Podcast! Healthcare Consumers are MAD, FRUSTRATED, and CONFUSED!!! The Team from Healthcare Consumer Navigator Center has developed this series of podcasts to show how healthcare consumers are healthcare prisoners. The Podcasts will identify the various healthcare prisons and provide consumers help to navigate out of the prison with practical advice. Healthcare has many myths and is very scary for consumers. Our goal is to help the consumer to become more confident when dealing with healthcare providers. Gary Prala, Co-Founder of Healthcare Consumer Navigator Center, will guide you through the maze and offer you advice and solutions. To find out more about our team, healthcare information available and our free service, visit us at: www.healthcareconsumernavigatorcenter.com read less
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Episodes

The Healthcare Consumer; Healthcare Pricing; Where to Start
Feb 23 2022
The Healthcare Consumer; Healthcare Pricing; Where to Start
Escaping the Healthcare Prison Presented by Healthcare Consumer Navigator CenterWelcome to Escaping the Healthcare Prison Podcast! Shopping for healthcare prices is becoming more common.   However, healthcare consumers that want to be proactive about managing their healthcare spending are finding it difficult if not impossible to “Shop For Healthcare Prices”. Unfortunately, consumers are not using the tools available. Two recent consumer surveys indicated that only about 10% of consumers use healthcare pricing tools. Why?  Because it is very difficult for the healthcare consumer to use and understand the tools.  Non-healthcare organizations like Amazon and other online retailers make it easy for the consumer to search for and buy goods and services. Most Healthcare organizations make it difficult for consumers to navigate their web sites and find prices.The Team from Healthcare Consumer Navigator Center has developed this Podcast to show how healthcare consumers are healthcare prisoners. The Podcasts will identify the various healthcare prisons and provide consumers help to navigate out of the prison with practical advice. Healthcare has many myths and is very scary for the consumers.  Our goal is to help consumer to become more confidant when dealing with healthcare providers.  Gary Prala, Co Founder of Healthcare Consumer Navigator Center, will guide you through the maze and offer you advice and solutions.To supplement the Podcasts, Our Website provides all inclusive detail information, guides and solutions along with a Consumer News Letter to help the healthcare  consumer. We offer a service, via our website, to answer questions and assist consumers with problems they are experiencing.  The Service  is Free!!! And All Information on The Website is Free!!To find out more about our team, healthcare information available and our free service, visit us at:   www.healthcareconsumernavigatorcenter.com
The Healthcare Consumer; What You Need to Know About Healthcare Quality
Feb 23 2022
The Healthcare Consumer; What You Need to Know About Healthcare Quality
Escaping the Healthcare Prison Presented by Healthcare Consumer Navigator CenterWelcome to Escaping the Healthcare Prison Podcast! HEALTHCARE CONSUMERS ARE CONFUSED ABOUT HOW TO GRADE HEALTHCARE QUALITY.CONSUMERS RARELY THINK ABOUT QUALITY AND MEDICAL OUTCOMESDefinition…Healthcare Quality •Quality health care means doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person—and having the best possible results. •Quality measures are tools that help us measure or quantify healthcare processes, outcomes, patient perceptions, and organizational structure and/or systems that are associated with the ability to provide high-quality health care and/or that relate to one or more quality goals for health care.•Infection rates, falls, medication errors, bed ulcers, readmission rates, patient safetyThe Team from Healthcare Consumer Navigator Center has developed this Podcast to show how healthcare consumers are healthcare prisoners. The Podcasts will identify the various healthcare prisons and provide consumers help to navigate out of the prison with practical advice. Healthcare has many myths and is very scary for the consumers.  Our goal is to help consumer to become more confidant when dealing with healthcare providers.  Gary Prala, Co Founder of Healthcare Consumer Navigator Center, will guide you through the maze and offer you advice and solutions.To supplement the Podcasts, Our Website provides all inclusive detail information, guides and solutions along with a Consumer News Letter to help the healthcare  consumer. We offer a service, via our website, to answer questions and assist consumers with problems they are experiencing.  The Service  is Free!!! And All Information on The Website is Free!!To find out more about our team, healthcare information available and our free service, visit us at:   www.healthcareconsumernavigatorcenter.com