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Article: Tennessee initiative to transform health care delivery system.(TennCare Bureau's Community Connection program)(Brief Article)
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- Policy & Practice
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The state of Tennessee's TennCare Bureau has partnered up with BlueCross/BlueShield to revolutionize health care delivery by using technology to help reduce medical errors, avoid duplicate services, and detect fraud and abuse.
The program, operated by Shared Health, a BlueCross subsidiary, creates a patient-centered community health record that allows multiple providers treating the same patient to view that patient's medical information via a secure web site. The name of the program is Community Connection.
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