AUSTIN, Texas, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Webify Solutions, a leading provider of Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBA) for the healthcare and insurance industry, today announced that BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has selected and begun to implement applications from Webify’s Healthcare On Demand industry solution. Webify Healthcare On Demand consists of a suite of Service-Oriented Business Applications that enable BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee to rapidly expand the breadth and depth of information exchange and process automation with its healthcare provider community by implementing a direct connect strategy.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will use applications from Webify Healthcare On Demand to provide end-to-end claims lifecycle management across its provider networks to help increase first pass and auto-adjudication rates, support provider-side claims correction, and deliver full claims visibility from submission to reimbursement. Webify Healthcare On Demand enables collaboration and automation, not only between Payer and Provider trading partners, but also across complete HIPAA transactions themselves by eliminating manual touches and interventions.
“After a detailed product evaluation, we chose Webify Solutions based on their prior experience and results with other prominent healthcare payers and plans,” said David Marckel, Director, Corporate Systems, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. “Webify’s Service-Oriented Business Applications provide capabilities for automating mission-critical administrative processes with our provider community while leveraging our current EDI and claims infrastructure,” he added.
“We are delighted to be chosen by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee,” said Robert Golladay, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Webify Solutions. “As healthcare costs continue to rise, the demand for streamlined information exchange across the healthcare business ecosystem continues to increase. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is a progressive company that understands the importance of leveraging Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) to support their long-term goal of streamlining healthcare information flow and obtaining greater business agility in a highly complex and tightly regulated industry.” he added.
Webify Healthcare On Demand replaces the inefficient tangle of phone and paper-based transactions between healthcare payers and providers with solutions that provide on demand collaboration and process automation. According to Gartner’s research director, Janice Young, “Healthcare payers are beginning to invest on behalf of physicians in technologies to better automate business and clinical administration. In 2005, healthcare payer organizations will begin to shift their IT focus from internal operational improvements to exploiting technology to share information with key stakeholders.”
About BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is Tennessee’s leader in health care financing. For over 50 years, the company has served Tennesseans as a not- for-profit company. They are an independent organization licensed by the BlueCross BlueShield Association to use the BlueCross BlueShield service mark in the state of Tennessee. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s service area is made up of all 95 counties in Tennessee. Headquartered in Chattanooga, the Tennessee company employs approximately 4,300 people.
About Webify Solutions
Webify Solutions is a leading provider of on demand, service-oriented business applications for the Insurance and Healthcare markets. Webify develops and markets a family of On Demand industry solutions to deliver business agility and measurable business value for healthcare and insurance companies.
Webify’s On Demand industry solutions are delivering dramatic results for leading insurance companies around the world by helping them streamline operations, generate new revenue and comply with diverse regulations. Privately held Webify Solutions is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in Europe and India. Please visit us at http://www.webifysolutions.com/ or call 866-4WEBIFY for more information.
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