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Note: Banner Health Network joins forces with the insurance giant, taking advantage of analytics tools needed for its new role as an accountable care organization.
5 Key Elements For Clinical Decision Support Systems (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Aetna recently announced an agreement with Banner Health Network (BHN) to provide technology that will support a health information exchange, improve patient data analytics, and add mobile connectivity. That combination of tools will help BHN offer services to more than 200,000 patients.
The May 10 announcement comes as the Banner Health Network, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based health system, transitions into an accountable care organization (ACO) through the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization initiative.
To advance its ACO goals, Banner will adopt technology and services from Medicity, ActiveHealth, and iTriage--all Aetna subsidiaries. The technology will support services offered to the 50,000 Medicare fee-for-service patients covered under the Pioneer ACO shared savings program as well as to the members in Aetna's ACO relationship with Banner Health Network.
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