Welcome
to Health Venture Group, LLC
Health Venture Group, LLC is the leading firm focused on the emerging Consumer Directed Health Care (CDHC) market.  Our firm specializes in investing and consulting to companies that are entering this market to support consumer decision making related to heath care costs and quality.

Consumers represent the new force in healthcare.  U.S healthcare spending today is close to $2 trillion and averages $6300 per individual per year.  Healthcare spending is rapidly growing as a total of our GDP, representing almost 16% in 2004 versus 7.2% in 1970.  Clearly, this is a trend that cannot continue.  Many payers including the U.S. Government, State and Local municipalities, employers and unions are focused on controlling the spiraling costs of health care.  One of the strategies that these groups are encouraging is cost shifting an increasing burden of health care expenditures to patients/consumers.

While this trend is early, it does represent a natural evolution.  Most, if not all, industries in the U.S. are market oriented.  That is, consumers are free to become educated, compare alternatives, negotiate and make informed purchase decisions.  The health care ecosystem that exist today does not provide consumers with the tools or ability to interact with health care as they do with other markets.

Health Venture Group, LLC ("HVG") believes that this situation will change, that consumer involvement will grow and that costs will stabilized while quality will increase in the healthcare world. The four(4) major areas of activity /new business opportunity in this emerging market fall under the following categories:

• Payments
• Records
• Content
• Decision support tools