Healthcare service providers are now seeking digital innovation to improve financial management, customer care, and interoperability, all while creating better usage of health data. For example, IBM has created a new blockchain-based health utility network to convene a broad ecosystem of healthcare organizations in a highly secure, shared environment. And announced last week at THINK 2019, IBM’s annual conference focused on technology and business, Cigna and Sentara Healthcare have now joined the health utility network. This ranges from promoting efficient claims and payment processing to enabling secure and frictionless healthcare information exchanges. “Sentara is dedicated to leveraging Information Technology to continuously improve health every day.

Source: Forbes February 16, 2019 15:00 UTC