Health and wellness

HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard is the linchpin of health insurer Humana’s efforts to support data sharing with provider organizations to improve care for its members.

Delta Dental of Arizona is alerting some patients that their information may be at risk after it identified suspicious activity in an employee’s email account.

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered two health systems and five healthcare insurers to turn over aggregated patient billing and discharge data, as well as employee wage and other information.

Seven-year initiative aims to build predictive and personalized solutions to help members manage health issues.

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

Amerigroup Texas is offering Medicaid recipients telehealth consultations with medical and behavioral healthcare providers at no cost.

Blue Shield of California is partnering with a company that is making use of telehealth services to enable follow-up care for home care visits by physicians.

Payers are pursuing new directions in taking care of members, putting a premium on how they use analytics to identify risks that can be mitigated.

Cigna Ventures is leading a $23 million investment in GNS Healthcare, a specialized artificial intelligence company.

Blue Shield of California and Solera Health have teamed up to offer a new free digital therapeutics program to members.

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.

Five years after hackers accessed the personal information of 10.6 million individuals, parties to a consolidated class action lawsuit have reached one of the largest healthcare data breach settlements.

Blue Shield of California and Landmark, an in-home senior care company, are using data analytics to drive care for the health plan’s most vulnerable population.

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.

IBM has awarded Blue Cross of Idaho the 2019 IBM Watson Health Advantage Award for its use of data analytics to improve outcomes and lower costs in episodes of care.

Telemedicine is on the rise, nearly tripling in use over the past two years, according to Rochester, N.Y.-based Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.

Policyholders generally are dissatisfied with the apps that their insurers are providing, according to a new study by J.D. Power.

Payers are establishing innovative ways to provide better care and improve the overall patient experience, according to America’s Health Insurance Plans.

A new Medicare Advantage plan will rely heavily on analytics to focus efforts on treating chronic conditions.

Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service has had a data breach after an unauthorized user accessed the online provider portal with the intent of fraudulently rerouting a provider financial transaction.