Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet’s Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison (Part 4)

SM: How big is NaviNet? How many insurance companies are your clients, and how many people do they represent? BW: There are over 380 insurance companies in the United States. We measure the size of an insurance company by the number of lives it insures. The smallest health plan in the country has 15,000 lives

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Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet’s Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison (Part 3)

SM: When you developed your initial strategy, was it based entirely on receiving payments from health plan providers? TM: Our goal was to streamline processes for payers as well as to create workflows that would enable us to provide additional clinical support to provider offices. For example, Aetna builds personal health records for many of

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My New Year’s Resolution

I wish you all a happy 2010, dear readers! I was reflecting back on 2009, and thinking what would be a good synthesis of the work I have been doing, and how I might succinctly summarize a New Year’s resolution for myself. Here is what I have come up with: