Payer, EHR Vendor Team

Health insurer Humana Inc. will subsidize the implementation cost of electronic health records software from athenahealth Inc. for 100 ambulatory practices with about 1,000 physicians.


Health insurer Humana Inc. will subsidize the implementation cost of electronic health records software from athenahealth Inc. for 100 ambulatory practices with about 1,000 physicians.

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth sells the EHR bundled with practice management software and outsourced billing/collections services.  Louisville, Md.-based Humana is working with the vendor to provide actionable information to physicians participating in a program to adopt the medical home model of care.

Under the alliance, athenahealth will be able to deliver via the EHR a summary of patient care using relevant insurance claims data from Availity LLC, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based claims clearinghouse. The service, called Availity CareProfile, includes such information as diagnoses, tests performed, lab results, medications prescribed, ambulatory visits and inpatient events. Providers can view the information via a Web browser, or download the summary to supplement a patient's electronic health record.

The vendors also will collect and measure data to assess physician performance in such areas as readmission rate, generic drug dispensing rate, mail-order usage and completion of health risk assessments. More information is available at athenahealth.com/Humana.

--Joseph Goedert