Data sharing

The nation needs to develop a digital infrastructure that is interoperable between healthcare and social care organizations.

Humana is collaborating with electronic health records vendor Epic as both entities seek to bring together patients, providers and insurers to advance value-based care.

Health plans now gather and report data for quality reporting, claims reporting and to conduct risk adjustment analysis, but typically these various data collections occur separately, are sometimes duplicative and are uncoordinated, say Deloitte experts. But that will soon all change.

A majority of workers need access to company data and documents on mobile devices today, but many can't retrieve the documents and information they need remotely.

California and others have passed consumer privacy laws, and lawmakers in Congress are beginning to address the issue. Here's an overview of the players and the proposals.

Three healthcare plans in Tennessee have joined an effort to improve the accuracy of provider data submitted to insurers.

The National Institutes of Health and Fitbit are encouraging users of the activity technology to supply data to find linkages between health and personal activity data

A majority of organizations cite problems dealing with the complex personnel, process and technology changes needed to modernize IT operations and enhance their ability to support business needs.

BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York is sharing claims data via HEALTHeLINK, the region’s health information exchange, to help providers improve care.

Across the industry, carriers report that basic third-party data capabilities are common and that pilot activity is high.

Roy Beveridge, MD, chief medical officer at Humana, contends that the insurer has made great strides in leveraging data to get ahead in value-based care.

Health insurers are joining the ranks of providers and vendors adopting HL7’s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard for sharing information.

The goal is to avoid traditional time-consuming tasks of communicating via fax, mail, email, courier and web portals, while reducing costs and speeding processes.

Choices of Corda for distributed-ledger technology and Accenture for security and integration layers gets proofs of concept closer to production.

The insurer gets access to data from participating auto manufacturers, including Mitsubishi.

Combining claims and clinical data provides better understanding of health ‘in real time,’ says data director Colt Courtright.

Carriers are able to leverage delayed flight information to provide customers with various other options of travel, similar to the hospitality online marketplace.

The life insurer’s LifeScore Labs division is ready to make its data tool available to other carriers in the space.

Coverage gaps will become common as less people are reached to buy insurance through traditional channels.

Major business intelligence providers are building tools designed to introduce more employees to data analytics, with a focus on three key areas: accessibility, collaboration and consumability.