MedCity News May 9, 2021
Together, the companies will add race, ethnicity and language information as well as social determinants of health factors to a database of millions of Blues plan members. The insights gleaned will be used to design interventions and develop community partnerships to reduce disparities in care.
In an effort to reduce health inequities, two companies are joining forces to combine a trove of health plan member data with information on race, ethnicity and language.
The companies are Chicago-based Blue Health Intelligence, a licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and Dunwoody, Georgia-based data company AnalyticsIQ, which announced a partnership on Monday.
They will combine Blue Health Intelligence’s database, which includes commercial health plan data from Blues members across the U.S.,...