News — HARRISBURG, PA – “America’s healthcare system is broken.” This simple statement is unifying Americans across the political spectrum. But what do we mean by “broken”?
Most individuals rely on privately owned health insurance companies for help covering the cost of medications, procedures, and devices that make waking life tolerable. Unfortunately, many of these individuals are being neglected – with lasting and even fatal repercussions. More and more frequently, private health insurance companies are refusing to cover essential healthcare services or making it incredibly hard for patients to qualify.
Health insurance customers and doctors, in Pennsylvania and across the state, are “.” Sait Onal, who has relied on a CPAP machine for over 20 years, described the process of getting his machine replaced as a “, indifference, and profit-driven policies that have come to define the American healthcare system.”
, Program Lead of Healthcare Informatics at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU), is available to comment on this topic, which was recently thrust back into the limelight by the assassination of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, on December 4, 2024.
Dr. Seavers has been an adjunct professor to many colleges and universities in Central Pennsylvania, including Dickinson College, Elizabethtown College, Penn State Harrisburg, and Shippensburg University. Dr. Seavers has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science, information technology, healthcare administration, and business administration. Dr. Seavers’ life-long goal has been to be a professor who teaches not only theory but the practical side of business and healthcare using his vast experiences in the field. His current research area is the transparency of data – especially in healthcare. For example, as healthcare becomes more and more commoditized, patients need to understand provider and hospital quality and pricing data. The basic question is: How will this data understanding occur, especially given privacy concerns? How will patients utilize data once they have it? Data transparency is critical as we continue into the 21st Century.
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