Healthcare Innovation July 8, 2021
Anthem’s initiative to share real-time data of value to clinicians, with patient care organizations, is yet another signal that health plan leaders are getting serious about collaborating to improve patient outcomes
As I reported yesterday, “A few months ago, the Indianapolis-based Anthem, Inc., one of the largest U.S. health plans, which serves 107 million Americans, including 43 million in its health plans, announced a new initiative focused on health information exchange between Anthem and provider organizations.” The press release published by Anthem described it thus: “Anthem, Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) today announced an effort to facilitate secure, bi-directional exchange of health information between healthcare providers and Anthem’s affiliated health plans, as a result of its collaboration with Epic. Increasing and improving...