Payments

Blue Shield of California is the first payer to sign with a new value-based care collaborative with healthcare services company Altais and health IT company Aledade.

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.

Most organizations are in the process of transitioning to the cloud, and this is making it difficult for IT departments to monitor security.

About a dozen health plans will join Apple, Google and Microsoft to test a new private sector implementation guide for Blue Button 2.0.

More payers are looking for unique ways to engage members, including the use of voice-activated artificial intelligence.

Jordan Bazinsky of Cotiviti says the need to inherently trust information is essential to gain trustworthy insights.

Approaches such as analytics, artificial intelligence and smart phone apps aim to improve care and save money.

Northside Hospital in Atlanta is adopting machine learning technology to enable the organization to predict when insurance companies will end payments.

One of the nation’s largest health insurers is integrating capabilities with a health consumer experience firm to improve offerings to employers and plan members.

For healthcare payers, the answer depends on more than just saving money—optimizing health should be the basis for adoption.

The network also includes three other insurers — Aetna, Anthem and the Chicago-based Health Care Service Corporation.

Services like Venmo and PayPal allow consumers to pay friends and family electronically. Insurers should meet that standard.

The payments and financial services industry has enjoyed an unprecedented wave of invention, but the fruits of that labor are threatened by an ideologically driven political climate that complicates the evolution of global interoperable mobile-driven commerce.

The Trump administration is preparing a regulation that would allow the resumption of billions of dollars in payments to health insurers in Obamacare.

Almost half of companies surveyed by SMA assume that tech giants like Amazon will play a significant role in selling auto and homeowners insurance.

Artificial intelligence, real-time data and social capital can reverse the fate of individuals, families and communities.

Customers are reporting increasing comfort with carrier’s digital initiatives, including usage-based insurance, according to o J.D. Power.

The coverage can be purchased via an app and covers passengers on all rides they take over 24 hours.

Details are sparse but an announcement says there will be a focus on using tech to drive better outcomes.

Some firms are investing in technology to help insurance clients shift to paperless payment processing.