CHICAGO (May 13, 2020)– Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI®) and Datavant have announced a new partnership that will facilitate the linking of BHI’s industry-leading medical and pharmacy claims data and analytics capabilities with data from dozens of companies, nonprofits, and health researchers using Datavant’s privacy-protecting connectivity technology, with the goal of designing better interventions to improve health outcomes. By combining BHI’s … Read More
The Power of Pharmaceuticals: Rx Spending Outpaces Inpatient Hospital Spending 2018 & 2019
Research from Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI®) shows that for the last two years, pharmacy (Rx) spending has contributed more than inpatient hospital costs to the total cost of care (TCOC) for commercially insured Americans.
Whyzen Boost Your Skills Webinar
Mary Henderson, Michele Heeter, and Penny Monical – all of Blue Health Intelligence® – provide demonstrations of current and upcoming features of Whyzen Analytics, BHI’s account analytics and reporting solution for health plans, employers, and brokers. Topics include a preview of Whyzen’s Enhanced User Interface and COVID-19 Reporting. This session’s deeper dives include how-to reviews of: Using My Work Organization … Read More
New Reports from BHI Analyze What’s Behind the Cost Dilemma Facing U.S. Healthcare
CHICAGO (March 13, 2020) – Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI®) has issued three new studies examining the state of healthcare costs, the leading contributors to health cost inflation, projected to result in $6 trillion in healthcare spending by 2027. All three studies draw on BHI’s data warehouse of claims from more than 200 million plan members, the largest and most longitudinally … Read More
Blue Health Intelligence and Decode Health Team Up to Validate the Accuracy of Predictive Models for Chronic Disease
CHICAGO (March 10, 2020) – Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI®) and Decode Health are showing how a machine learning (ML) engine can be applied to large data sets to more accurately forecast which patients will get chronic diseases. Decode’s analysis used a representative subset of BHI’s National Data Repository, the largest and most longitudinally rich data set in the nation, to … Read More
Data supports therapy provider’s claims of lower costs, higher quality
Airrosti wanted to expand outside of Texas and instill a culture of continuous improvement. To meet their objectives, Airrosti leaders utilized data and analytics to improve their care model, manage their providers, and further prove their worth to payers and employer groups. Data from Blue Health Intelligence helped Airrosti show that their methods reduced the total cost of care, limited … Read More
Solving the Rubix Cube of Health Plan Benefit Design with Analytics
Russell Robbins and Mary Henderson of HIC share how employers, brokers and plans are successfully using analytics to shape benefit design and how Whyzen Analytics helps them to overcome the common frustrations faced by the industry.
Thrive Earlier Detection Wins the BlueCross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge
CHICAGO – The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association(BCBSA) and Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI®) announced today that Thrive Earlier Detection (Thrive) has won the Blue Cross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge. Out of more than 130 submissions and five finalists, Thrive was chosen for its proposal to evaluate the health-economic impact of earlier multi-cancer detection, and better identify and predict populations that will … Read More
BHI’s CEO Named One of FierceHealthcare’s Women of Influence
CHICAGO (November 18, 2019) – FierceHealthcare, a healthcare trade publication, recognized Swati Abbott, the longtime CEO of Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI®), with its “2019 Women of Influence” award today. Ten women across the industry — from physicians to CEOs to researchers and tech company execs — were honored for shaping the future of healthcare. According to FierceHealthcare, the award honors leaders … Read More
Bridging Data, Analytics, and Industry Insights to Develop High Impact Medical Device Propositions
Russell Robbins of Blue Health Intelligence®, Jessica Martin of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Julia Gaebler of Health Advances explore how data and clinically based methodologies are helping healthcare leaders better use analytically derived insights to evaluate and address different launch, in-market and payment scenarios.