MedCity News January 12, 2021
Anuja Vaidya

The EHR vender and payer’s five-year collaboration will focus on integrating health plan data into anthenahealth’s EHR software with the aim of supporting clinical decision making and preventing gaps in care.

EHR vendor athenahealth, Inc., and health insurer Humana Inc., have entered into a multi-year collaboration that will add health plan data to the vendor’s software, athenaClinicals.

The goal of the partnership is to improve health outcomes for Humana’s members by giving providers the information they need at the point of care to help them make informed decisions for their patients, Paul Brient, chief product officer at athenahealth, said via email.

“We also seek to reduce the administrative friction by automating often manual tasks such as pre-authorization,” he added.

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