Category: News
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Report: Reducing Medicare Spending Through Electronic Information Exchange
A 2016 report from researchers at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and Harvard University finds that Health Information Exchanges (like MyHealth) reduced costs for Medicare beneficiaries by an average of $139 a year from 2003-2009. Translated nationally, that could result in $8.7 billion in savings annually if HIE’s were operating in all markets. It would…
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One of the Best HIEs in the Country
The biggest players in Billings’ health care system are working with the state’s largest insurance provider on a health information sharing pilot program that could pave the way for a similar statewide system. Called a health information exchange, the pilot is spearheaded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana and brings together St. Vincent Healthcare,…