TriZetto Chief Medical Officer Jeff Rideout recently spoke with Healthcare Payer News Editor Chris Anderson about how data will play a part in redesigning the healthcare landscape and the readiness of both payers and providers to collaborate on these changes.

Health insurer Humana Inc. announced today that it has acquired Anvita Health, an analytics company that uses a broad range of data to help provide clinical insights and improve the delivery of healthcare.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has recently signed up eight large health systems under an aligned incentive model, a critical milestone in the health plan’s strategy of fostering an accountable care organization.

CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield and Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions have announced a joint effort to create a clinical pathways program for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic inflammatory disease that affects more than 2.1 million people annually.

The American College of Physicians, which represents 132,000 internal medicine specialists, is proposing a privacy rule that says researchers should maximize appropriate uses of information to achieve scientific advances without compromising ethical obligations to protect individual welfare and privacy.