Mackenzie Garrity – June 6, 2019
Electronic health records provider Epic and
health insurer Humana have teamed up to improve patient and
provider communication as well as access to health information.
Five things to know:
1. Humana is the first insurer to partner with
Epic. The two companies aim to advance interoperability and transparency
between patients and providers. As a result, Epic and Humana officials said they
hope their partnership will reduce costs, improve quality and increase patient
satisfaction.
2. Humana will integrate its real-time
benefits check tool, IntelligentRx, into Epic's electronic prescribing
workflow, which selects a more cost-effective treatment 40 percent of the time,
according to Humana's President of Pharmacy Solutions Scott Greenwell.
3. By integrating Epic's technology, Humana
aims to improve physicians' timeliness and accuracy while also easing
physicians' burdens.
4. Through the partnership, Epic and Humana
want to increase the quality and timeliness of data exchange and improve
provider access to claims support monitoring of value-based performance.
5. Additionally, Humana and Epic seek to
eliminate inefficiencies for prior authorization decisions and provide
physicians quality and cost information when they make referral decisions.
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