Advancing health information technology provides members and their doctors with tools that empower them to make better health care decisions. Developing tools and resources to improve members’ understanding of their health care benefits, conditions, and potential treatments; and offering technologies that assist physicians in their care of patients have become key components of what we do every day. Since 2005, Aetna has invested more than $1.8 billion in tools and health information technology solutions toward these efforts.
For large medical practices such as Mount Kisco Medical Group, health information technology creates efficiencies and improves health care quality. Through the use of electronic medical records, its office is able to quickly and easily track patient records, tests and procedures. Aetna is working through health information exchanges to broaden the connectivity of systems like this one to ensure members’ health information is accessible when needed by medical professionals. And, through CareEngine® Care Considerations sent by our subsidiary ActiveHealth Management, Aetna is aiding physicians by comparing their patients’ health care data with evidence-based clinical rules to identify specific opportunities to improve health quality and patient care.
Investing in technologies that continue to make health care more effective and efficient is strategically important not just for Aetna, but for the benefit of our members and customers, and for the health care professionals with whom we work.
