HIE

With prior authorization posing a significant pain point for providers, several health insurers and the organization representing them are starting an initiative to improve the process.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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