Boston, MA, USA
June 12, 2007 Celent
Launches Healthcare Banking Research Service
Report Published by Celent
Celent, a Boston-based financial research
and consulting firm, is launching a new research service: Healthcare
Banking. The research will examine the role that financial
institutions and technology providers can play as change agents in the
healthcare industry. Change is an imperative as the industry grapples with
spiraling costs, and Celent believes that a new league of players will
contribute significantly to industry improvements. Celent's unique
research and advisory service will help financial institutions and
technology providers stay abreast of industry trends, seize opportunities,
and monitor the competitive playing field.
The first report in the service, Healthcare
Transactions: What's in the Forecast for Financial Institutions?, is
now available.
"Over the past five years financial
institutions have awoken to the role they have to play in eradicating
inefficiencies in healthcare transaction processing," says Alenka
Grealish, Managing Director of Celent's Banking Group. "Moreover,
as the healthcare industry increasingly shifts to a consumer-directed
model, financial institutions are poised to play a critical intermediary
role facilitating and expediting payments."
Celent has already explored several
important developments that illustrate financial institutions' increasing
role in the healthcare industry. In a previous Celent report, Health
Savings Accounts: How will the Stars Align, Celent advised financial
institutions on how to capitalize on the growing health savings account (HSA)
market. Celent also analyzed the use of prepaid cards in the healthcare
industry in the report Flexible Spending
Accounts, Flexible Cards.
Celent's new research service will delve
further into healthcare banking with a series of reports, each including
analysis and valuable advice for financial institutions and vendors
exploring the industry. Celent's inaugural Healthcare Banking report, Healthcare
Transactions: What's in the Forecast for Financial Institutions,
focuses on financial institutions that are making efficiency in-roads in
handling third party payments for healthcare providers.
The next three reports to be published
under this service will be:
- Shifting Stakeholders and Change Agents
in Healthcare Transaction Processing
- Insights into Healthcare Transactions: A
Survey of Healthcare Providers
- HSAs: Moving Beyond the Growing Pains
To learn more about this new service,
please contact Steve Nawrocki at snawrocki@celent.com
or +1.617.262.3128.
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