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Article Excerpt
Byline: Joseph Conn
Although 20 companies operating Blue Cross or Blue Shield plans say they will create the nation's largest healthcare database, the question remains as to whether that data will be good enough to drive quality improvement and not merely offer cost comparisons between providers.
Privacy advocates perceive the proposed giant database (Aug. 7, p. 6), composed of medical records on better than one in four persons in the U.S., as a threat to patient privacy and physician autonomy.
Participants in the data-mining enterprise, announced Aug. 4 and called Blue Health Intelligence, range from the giant for-profit and publicly traded Blues conglomerate, Indianapolis-based WellPoint, with 34 million beneficiaries, to much smaller, single-state not-for-profits, including Blue Cross of Idaho with 400,000 members.
The venture, with de-identified data compiled from records of 79...
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