Covisint Helps Health Plans Share Data
Covisint, the data exchange technology division of Detroit's Compuware Corp., said Monday that several Michigan health plans are using its ExchangeLink to share data.
The Michigan Association of Health Plans, which includes PriorityHealth, Health Alliance Plan, HealthPlus, Molina, Great Lakes Health Plan, Midwest Health Plan and MPHI, is using ExchangeLink to simplify administrative burdens and bring secure online access to member eligibility, claims status, single-sign-on and more.
"As an industry we must continue to focus on opportunities to improve the quality and efficiencies of healthcare," said Barry Coffield, assistant vice president of enterprise operations at Priority Health. "By leveraging Covisint ExchangeLink, MAHP will quantifiably improve the way 'the business of healthcare' gets done statewide."
With the nation spending about one sixth of its gross domestic product on health care -- $2.3 trillion a year -- even small cuts in administrative costs become significant. Additionally, health plans are under increasing competition and pressure to find the most efficient and cost effective methods to work together with providers. Covisint directly addresses these needs for MAHP with Covisint ExchangeLink for Healthcare, which securely provides an information-sharing backbone, online collaboration tools and other services from a single point of access.
"Covisint's ecosystem approach enables the sharing of health care information from all of our members' systems, regardless of how simple or how complex their current technology infrastructure is," said Rick Murdock, executive director of the MAHP. "This Covisint partnership positions MAHP member plans well ahead of the health care reform curve for simplification, efficiency and meaningful use."
Covisint designed ExchangeLink to simplify and save significant time every day for delivering services to individual physicians and physician practices via a non-disruptive, single-sign-on approach. For example, traditionally, a practice employing 20 doctors accessing eight different health plans could translate into managing 160 unique user names and passwords. However, with Covisint, physicians are required to maintain only one user name and password for secure access to all the clinical and administrative information they need. This accelerates and simplifies access, allowing physicians to spend more time focused on delivering care.
"The State of Michigan, particularly with MAHP's involvement, is quickly increasing its lead as a model state for health information technology, and member organizations are helping lead the charge by reaping the benefits of a true ecosystem approach," said Brett Furst, Covisint vice president of health care. "From the federal to the state to the local level, everyone is seeking new and better ways to improve how health information is securely exchanged and made available at the point of care. It's all about serving patients better through secure information access and cutting into the billions of dollars traditionally wasted due to past inefficiencies -- precisely where Covisint excels."
The Covisint solution is a platform-as-a-service ecosystem providing a one-stop shop for healthcare organizations and caregivers to securely access applications and exchange information across the entire care delivery system. The Covisint ExchangeLink platform already serves more than 1,100 healthcare organizations nationally -- representing more than 290,000 physicians and care providers, including entire states, health information exchanges (HIEs), Medicaid programs, health systems and hospitals, as well as health plans.
Learn more at www.covisint.com.
