The WHIO, SymphonyCare and Onyx to Make CMS Final Rule Compliance Easy for Wisconsin Health Plans
Summary
Many insurance companies in Wisconsin already work with the WHIO as participants in the state’s All-Payer Claims Database to provide price, resource use, and quality information in conjunction with the WHIO’s technology partner, SymphonyCare. By simply adding Onyx’s HL7 FHIR-based interoperability platform SAFHIR to the WHIO’s current technology, Wisconsin health plans will achieve regulatory compliance for all future healthcare information exchange. “As a nonprofit organization dedicated to driving higher quality healthcare at a lower cost through informed consumers, we welcome this partnership,” said Dana Richardson, CEO of the WHIO. SAFHIR, a cloud first platform built in collaboration with Microsoft, enables secure connections between payers and patients and is the product of lessons learned from building the Blue Button 2.0 service for Medicare. Focused on standards based, interoperable technologies that ensure security, privacy and the delivery of the right information to the right place at the right time, Onyx is the expert in enabling our customers to garner the greatest value from their participation in the healthcare eco-system of tomorrow.