About "Health Research Institute"

The PwC health research institute focuses on large scale issues and major developments and includes analysis on healthcare trends as well as key insights and industry best practices.

Article archive

• Scoring healthcare: Navigating customer experience ratings
  

  4/11/13 | Health Research Institute

  Healthcare companies have been gathering feedback from patients for years. Now, the accessibility of that feedback is influencing people’s healthcare decision making. Reporting requirements on ratings and reviews are prompting insurers and providers to look more comprehensively at the consumer experience.

• Top health industry issues of 2013
  

  1/10/13 | Health Research Institute

  PwC's Health Research Institute's annual report on issues impacting the health industries in the coming year.

• Health reform re-elected: ACA implementation in tough fiscal times
  

  11/10/12 | Health Research Institute

  What will the impact of the US presidential election be on the cost of providing healthcare for your business? In our latest report, PwC's Health Research Institute provides a roadmap of the many changes headed your way, and offers a roadmap on how to sidestep any obstacles implementation may toss your way

• Implications of the US Supreme Court ruling on healthcare
  

  7/2/12 | Health Research Institute

  This PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute report comments on the implications of the US Supreme Court ruling on healthcare

• Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers, 2013
  

  5/15/12 | Health Research Institute

  Healthcare spending in the United States is expected to grow at a historically low rate of 7.5 percent next year, according to the annual Behind the numbers report on medical cost trend, published by PwC Health Research Institute. More than half of the employers surveyed are considering increasing employees' share of health benefit cost and expanding health and wellness programs in 2013.

• Social media likes healthcare: From marketing to social business
  

  3/7/12 | Health Research Institute

  With one half of health industry executives saying they are concerned about how to integrate social media data into their business strategy there is a recognition social media presents a significant industry challenge.

• Needles in a haystack: Seeking knowledge with clinical informatics
  

  2/29/12 | Health Research Institute

  Increasing importance of clinical informatics for healthcare payers, providers, and the pharmaceutical industries: PwC

• Medtech focus: IRS and Treasury publish notice of proposed rulemaking implementing new Medical Device Excise Tax
  

  2/8/12 | Health Research Institute

  IRS and Treasury publish notice of proposed rulemaking implementing new Medical Device Excise Tax, February 2012