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Existing and Emerging Technologies to Advance Value-Based Care

June 17, 2019 - Value-based care requires an unprecedented amount of health data exchange and analytics, and many providers are hesitant to adopt these new forms of care delivery and reimbursement because of internal or external technical limitations, primarily interoperability. Last year, a follow-up Humana-HFMA study on value-based payment readiness found...

Cigna, Sentara Healthcare Join Payer Blockchain Initiative

February 20, 2019 by Jessica Kent

Cigna and Sentara Healthcare have joined a new healthcare-focused collaborative that aims to build, share, and deploy solutions using blockchain technology. The collaborative also includes Aetna,...

Payer-Provider Providence St. Joseph Buys Blockchain RCM Company

February 18, 2019 by Jennifer Bresnick

Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH), an integrated payer-provider system, has announced the acquisition of Lumedic, a blockchain company serving the revenue cycle management market. The purchase will...

Aetna, Anthem, HCSC Back Healthcare Blockchain Initiative

January 24, 2019 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Aetna, Anthem, and Health Care Service Corporation announced a new partnership with IBM and PNC Bank focused on bringing blockchain technology to healthcare. “The aim is to create an inclusive...

Aetna Joins Healthcare Blockchain Alliance, Pilot Project

December 03, 2018 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Not long after closing its deal to be acquired by CVS Health, health payer Aetna has signed on to pilot the use of blockchain technology as part of the Synaptic Health Alliance. In a statement with...

Existing and Emerging Technologies to Advance Value-Based Care

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Aetna Joins Healthcare Blockchain Alliance, Pilot Project