BlueCross and BlueShield (BCBS) news from FierceHealthIT

Tennessee's Medicaid program and one of its Medicaid managed care providers have announced that they plan to kick off an e-prescribing pilot program in 13 of the state's rural counties. The Bureau Read more...

Hospitals participating in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will soon be required to used computerized physician order entry under the insurer's new incentive plan. Under the health plan's Read more...

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has invested upwards of $1.5 million in two pilot EMR initiatives, with plans to create a statewide HIE if the tests prove successful. The move follows a recent Read more...

Health Level Seven (HL7), America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association agreed last week to collaborate on portability standards for PHRs. Working together Read more...

Increasingly, it's looking like smart use of IT is central to succeeding at pay-for-performance initiatives. Recent evidence for that proposition comes from the Ann Arbor (MI) Health Information Read more...

Can a state-backed health information exchange get further than private sector efforts? Read more...

SureScripts this week announced it would be working with the State Alliance for eHealth to research methods for improving medication management. The new program will look at ways to improve "safety, Read more...

Since launching three and a half years ago, more than 10.8 million e-prescriptions have been transmitted over Massachusetts' payer-backed e-network. During the past six months alone, says eRX Read more...

Here's a health system implementing a compromise electronic patient record, not exactly a PHR but not exactly a true EMR either. Kettering Health Network has launched an "individual health record," called DaytonHealthKonnect, in cooperation with a local health plan. The new record will integrate physician notes, pharmacy data and lab results, and will be equipped to alert doctors when a patient needs extra attention. The program, which is in a pilot phase, serves 6,800 patients insured by …

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A group of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans spanning four states have come together to funnel data on 11 million people into a broadly-accessible EMR. The EMR, which uses MeDecision's Patient Clinical Summary Software, pulls together patient data from various sources, including eligibility, medication, lab visit, hospitalization and physician office visit databases into a single integrated system. The system then uses data analytics to offer physician reminders, including preventive care …

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