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Kijabe Hospital: Making a Difference
At Kijabe Hospital in Kenya, IBSG consultants install a wireless network with an online medical reference tool called the Map of Medicine to provide medical professionals with relevant and up-to-date information needed to diagnose and treat patients.
Payer organizations interact daily with virtually all segments of the healthcare industry, from sharing information on patient records to billing and payment. To better manage these activities, and more, payers need to use their Websites more effectively. According to the Gartner Group, payers will need to achieve an automatic claim-adjudication rate of 80 percent, or higher, in the next five years to remain competitive. Deloitte Research predicts that using the Internet to connect consumers with payers will grow from eight million today to 55 million by the end of 2006.
The Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group is working with insurance payers to simplify processes, decrease the cost of providing services to internal and external constituents, and apply technology effectively.
