What Role Does UnitedHealth Group Play in Medical Records and Patient Data? (0:31)
Insurance companies play a huge role in the medical community, from data transfer to employment. In this video, HealthMaker Nick Martin talks about how they function and what their goals are.
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At UnitedHealth, we employ about 10,000 nurses, clinicians that are actively giving care to end consumers every single day. We interact with tens of thousands of hospitals, and provide data and information to those individuals. We connect a personal health record from the end consumer to the physician, to help bridge the gap of the knowledge of the end-user, and we take data like personal health device data, and we integrate that into that into that system, and provide it to their constituents as well.
UnitedHealth's Nick Martin explains the role of big data in improving health outcomes and how mobile technology can be used to help keep healthcare costs down for employers and insurers while delivering better care to patients.
