Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and Humana Developing Multi-Payer Electronic Health Record
Brief:
Humana and Blue Cross Blue Shield are getting together to form what they call a “payer-based health record”. This database is going to be populated with all their claims information and is designed to:
- Help improve patient safety
- Eliminate duplicate medical procedures
- Reduce unnecessary services
- Reduce Fraud
Healthcare professionals will be able to view a statement containing all the patient’s health care services from the various doctors, other medical providers, and other health plans.
The record itself is going to contain:
- Transactional information from the health plans claims record
- Dates of service
- Name of health care provider
- Name of prescription
The record is NOT going to contain results and diagnosis for:
- Psychiatric treatment
- Substance abuse
- HIV related treatments
The information will be held in the patient’s respective health plan and ONLY providers have access to the consolidated medical records.
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