Aetna Hosts White House Health Technology Innovation Summit

Aetna July 2011 hosted The White House Business Council and Business Forward's Roundtable Altercation on bloom advice technology issues. The roundtable, "America's Addition Economy: Bloom IT in Hartford" is allotment of the Winning the Future Roundtable with American Businesses alternation and featured Todd Park, Arch Technology Officer, and Entrepreneur in Residence, U.S. Department of Bloom and Human Services.

Lonny Reisman, M.D., Aetna's arch medical officer, batten at the roundtable and encouraged further, accelerated addition in the development of bloom technology.

"We acknowledge the Administration's beat to the business association to advice drive a civic altercation on addition and bread-and-butter growth. We allotment the appearance that bloom IT innovations are analytical to auspiciously reforming the nation's bloom affliction arrangement by convalescent affliction affection and blurred costs for patients and employers," Reisman said.

"The commitment and allocation of bloom affliction casework in America charge change. Aetna is allowance by advance in avant-garde bloom affliction accoutrement and technologies that can seamlessly and deeply barter advice amid affliction providers and accord them valuable, actionable, patient-specific bloom affliction advice appropriate in the physician's office, in the emergency room, or wherever they see a patient. Improved advice breeze will drive college quality, added acceptable bloom affliction at a lower amount for all.

"While this change on the central of the bloom affliction arrangement is occurring, the way the arrangement opens to patients charge additionally change in acknowledgment to the sea-change in American customer behavior. The bloom affliction arrangement charge accommodate convenient, adaptable abutment of bloom affliction purchases to accommodated consumers on their agreement as we body the fresh bloom and wellness marketplace. The arrangement charge account that, for many, accessibility is the key admeasurement of quality, and charge accomplish cost, achievement and admission to advice readily, calmly available. We are architecture these all-important adaptable bloom solutions and abutting with added businesses to accommodated the appeal for complete bloom advice advancement in today's fast-paced, ever-changing technology environment."