UnitedHealthcare in Indiana Joins Groundbreaking Quality Healthcare Reporting and Disease Management Program From Indiana Health Information Exchange
By: Health Insurance
Submitted: 2009-10-15 19:17:28 | Word Count: 557
Indiana Health Information Exchange
(IHIE) today announced UnitedHealthcare in Indiana, which insures more than
500,000 people throughout the state, recently joined IHIE's Quality Health
First (QHF) program. The QHF program is designed to deliver better health
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outcomes for physicians and their patients, and will serve as
UnitedHealthcare's quality reporting tool for primary-care physicians in
Indiana, helping them better manage patients' health conditions and preventive
care efforts.
The QHF program is a groundbreaking approach to quality healthcare, benefiting
both physicians and patients, and reducing the overall cost of care. Designed
by IHIE and the Employers' Forum of Indiana, the QHF program is built upon a
system that securely aggregates and delivers important patient information
such as lab results, medication and treatment histories, and other clinical
data in a standardized, electronic format, across all providers. It's free to
physicians, and provides crucial patient information, such as those due for
preventive screenings and chronic disease follow-up care.
"Supporting quality patient care is a top priority at UnitedHealthcare and in
line with our mission of helping people live healthier lives," said Daniel
Krajnovich, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Indiana/Kentucky region. "As one of the
leading health insurers in Indiana, we knew it was important to support and
join IHIE's Quality Health First program, which we believe will improve
physician-patient relationships, improve the cost of healthcare and ultimately
improve outcomes. We're proud to be on the cutting edge of driving quality
health reporting and outcomes."
Currently more than 900 physicians participate in the QHF program. They
receive monthly reports that they can use to proactively monitor patients'
preventive and chronic disease care. For example, they can view which patients
are getting tests completed, the results of those tests and which patients
have yet to come in for testing.
"We applaud UnitedHealthcare for acknowledging the need for cooperation
between healthcare providers and healthcare insurers to improve overall
patient care," said Dr. J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D., and President and CEO
of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. Overhage also serves as Director
of Medical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. "We encourage all
Indiana healthcare industry stakeholders - physicians, physician groups,
hospitals and employers - to join with UnitedHealthcare and IHIE in committing
to progressive healthcare delivery designed to improve care for all Indiana
residents."
UnitedHealthcare provides a full spectrum of
consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services to individuals, public
sector employers and businesses of all sizes, including more than half of the
Fortune 100 companies. The company organizes access to quality, affordable
health care services on behalf of more than 25 million individual consumers,
contracting directly with approximately 590,000 physicians and care
professionals and more than 4,900 hospitals to offer them broad, convenient
access to services nationwide.
