By Sonal Sheth, Senior Director, Product Manager, Whyzen Analytics, and Kelvin Evans, Sales Executive BHI’s enhanced Whyzen™ Analytics platform enables health plans, employers, and brokers to quickly find and act on trends, cost savings, and care improvement opportunities. New guided analytics pathways and a more intuitive interface allow this next-generation reporting and analytics solution to sort through vast healthcare data … Read More
Q&A: National Benchmarking Module Unlocks Insights Into Healthcare Costs and Utilization
Q&A with BHI Expert Data Analysts In our latest Q&A, Carolyn Jevit, senior product director, discusses how BHI’s National Benchmarking Module (NBM) uses data to provide health plans and their employer customers with a deeper understanding of cost and utilization improvement opportunities at national, regional, plan, and account levels.
Artificial Intelligence Saves Payers Time, Money
BHI’s Roxanna Cross was recently interviewed by Managed Healthcare Executive® magazine on the topic of AI, machine learning, and health insurance. The premise was simple: AI can save health plans money while improving care delivery and outcomes. An excerpt follows: “At Blue Health Intelligence (BHI), which provides clinical data expertise for Blues plans around the United States, programmers attacked the … Read More
Q&A: The Importance of REL Data in Achieving Health Equity
Q&A with BHI Expert Data Analysts Almost all commercial health plans are seeking to address health disparities, but few have the reliable and widespread race, ethnicity, and language (REL) data needed. Learn how, in the absence of self-reported data, Plans can continue to make progress.
From Coronavirus Pandemic to Mental Health Epidemic
How employers are handling the mental health challenges of employees in the wake of COVID-19 The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic may have saved millions from dying of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen. But, according to researchers, the lockdowns, social distancing, and masking also had a significant impact on people’s mental health. COVID-19 was particularly hard on young adults and … Read More
Prognos Health and Blue Health Intelligence® Partner to Improve Accuracy of Underwriting Decisions for the Group Risk Market
Combined offering enables health plans to quote with more accuracy to win the right business at the most optimal rates. NEW YORK (July 21, 2021) — Prognos Health and Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI®), two of the nation’s leading healthcare data analytics companies, have partnered with a multi-year agreement that combines Prognos’ lab data registry of 325 million de-identified lives comprised … Read More
Whyzen Boost Your Skills
The Blue Health Intelligence® team demonstrates select features of Whyzen Analytics, our account analytics and reporting solution for health plans, employers, and brokers. This webinar includes tutorials on: Whyzen’s New Landing Page: A reimagined dashboard and several useful access points to the most important data Data Visualizations: Gauge Charts, Quadrant Charts Storytelling: A great way to walk your audience through … Read More
Health Plans Required to Provide Price Comparison Tool by January 2022
At the end of 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) which includes a number of key provisions for health plans. Among them is the requirement that health plans offer a web-based price transparency tool that will communicate expected costs of various services provided in a health plan member’s service area. The tool must provide out-of-pocket costs for these … Read More
Telehealth Use Spikes Amongst Commercially Insured Individuals During the Pandemic, but a Digital Divide Remains
BHI co-authored a recently published study in JAMA Network Open that found almost 24% of privately insured working-age individuals used telehealth for outpatient care in the early phase of the pandemic compared to just 0.3% during the same time in 2019. However, persons living in areas with limited social resources were significantly less likely to use telehealth, suggesting barriers to … Read More
Suspected and Actual Infant Child Abuse Cases Increase During the Pandemic, According to Medical Encounter Data
New findings by BHI add to the increasing evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to contain it have taken a terrible toll on children. In the interest of understanding the pandemic’s impact on children, BHI examined pediatric trends for 2020. We found that in the previous year, the trend in the cost of an ED visit for children under … Read More