Availity Care Profile

Categories: Empower Consumers and Providers

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida played a key role in the statewide deployment of the Availity Care Profile (ACP), the nation’s first multiple-payer electronic health record.  Using claims-based information, the ACP provides a consolidated view of patients’ healthcare services across physicians and providers, helping improve patient safety, eliminate duplicate procedures and reduce fraud.  Furthermore, the ACP facilitates health information exchange and systems interoperability among clinicians and payers, yielding new efficiencies and cost savings.  For example, a study by Point-of-Care Partners, a consortium of independent health IT consultants, found that the ACP led to a time savings of three to six minutes on patient assessments during a pilot period, leading to more productive and efficient encounters with commensurate cost savings.  Approximately 400 Tampa Bay-area provider sites now have access to the ACP, and the capability is expanding to other Florida geographies, including Gainesville, Jacksonville, Miami and Tallahassee.