We're becoming AXA Health
We’re becoming AXA Health. We have a new ambition, to help our members - your patients - be their best selves. For more details on how our business is changing, and what this means for your practice or facility, click here.
Watch Sarah Taylor, Head of Specialist and Practitioner Relations, describe what this change means for your patients, and our work together, here.
Effect of data sharing in reducing unnecessary procedures
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ayo Kazeem presented a poster on the effects of data sharing in reducing unnecessary knee arthroscopies in the UK private medical sector at the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference 2019, co-sponsored in Sydney, Australia, by the World Health Organization.
The challenge of change
In recent years, private medical insurers such as AXA Health have moved from simply ‘paying the bills’ to becoming commissioners of healthcare services, committed to playing an active role in securing cost-effective, quality care for their members.
In practice, that means encouraging providers to follow best (evidence-based) practice – and challenging those who undertake inappropriate or unnecessary investigations and procedures.
Head of Specialist and Provider Relations Sarah Taylor writes on the challenge of change here.