Data sharing

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.

Tom Bolt is charged with helping the company improve pricing decisions using data and analytics.

But IT personnel too often feel they lack the skills, technology and bandwidth to create the data-centric foundation needed.

Vendor will provide insurer with an automated cloud-based platform offering portfolio data, accounting entries and reporting tools.

Insurer will take stake in insurtech while leveraging its technology with clients.

Jon Colello, president and head of underwriting, advises carriers to focus on technologies and partnerships reducing data sharing costs.

Organizations continued to have great need for infosec and DevOps talent, but there was little gain for data processing professionals in September.

The offering uses mimicked version of an information system to fool hackers, says Chris Albery of the HITRUST organization.

Healthcare organizations such as Allina Health are working more closely with carriers to ensure that patient information is shared to improve care and reduce costs.

Other claims data also can show individuals on electricity-dependent equipment, says Karen DeSalvo, MD.

CoCo Framework looks to serve as trusted framework for distributed ledger technology.