Improve Care Coordination and Delivery with AI & HealthEdge GuidingCare®

Healthcare is undergoing a transformation, and artificial intelligence (AI) is a major part of this evolution. From improving diagnostic accuracy to transforming care coordination workflows, AI offers extraordinary opportunities for enhancing efficiency, quality, and patient outcomes. For health plans, this means adopting innovative solutions that not only keep pace with industry demands but also set new standards for care delivery and operational excellence.

HealthEdge GuidingCare® is at the forefront of this revolution, leveraging advanced AI tools to redefine how health plans coordinate and deliver care for its members. Below, we’ll discuss why AI is essential for care coordination, the unique benefits provided by GuidingCare, and the AI-powered features that make it stand out.

Why Leverage AI to Improve Care Coordination?

Care coordination is more complex than ever. The shifting healthcare landscape, characterized by expanded data streams, growing patient populations, and value-based care models, demands intelligent tools capable of managing these challenges. AI-infused technology is not just a nice-to-have tool for health plans; it has become a necessity.

According to the IDC MarketScape: U.S. Care Coordination Technology 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment, health plans looking to improve care coordination should prioritize solutions that deliver:

  • Patient-Centric Care
  • AI & Personalization
  • Clinical Decision Support
  • Interoperability
  • Data Security
  • Cost Efficiency

HealthEdge stands out as a leader in this space, recognized for offering advanced AI-enabled tools that address these critical areas. With GuidingCare, health plans gain a platform optimized for real-time insights, automation, and meaningful care delivery.

What Makes the GuidingCare Care Management System Different?

Unlike many care management systems, GuidingCare enables payers to support end-to-end care coordination workflows through a fully integrated platform. GuidingCare gives providers a 360-degree view of each member, allowing for more accurate risk stratification, making it easier to deliver targeted assessments, interventions, and outreach. The solution also integrates with social services platforms to help uncover members’ social risk factors and make it easier to connect members with essential support services.

The highly configurable GuidingCare system supports a wide variety of health plan workflows, including alerts, care plans, business rules, reporting, and assessments. Plus, providers receive alerts as part of their regular workflows, including overdue activities, changes in member risk scores, new hospitalizations, and other shifts in member activity.

Health plans can configure GuidingCare to work for their unique business needs, benefit plans, and member populations and enable workflow automation. HealthEdge solutions comply with FHIR interoperability requirements and offers APIs for a bi-directional integration approach that efficiently connects GuidingCare with a health plan’s existing technology ecosystem.

With these capabilities in place, GuidingCare empowers health plans with the tools needed to deliver personalized, high-quality care at scale.

How the GuidingCare System Leverages AI

HealthEdge’s AI strategy takes a thoughtful, secure approach that focuses on enabling smarter workflows, actionable insights, and enhanced member experiences. By embedding advanced AI into GuidingCare, health plans can access features that go beyond mere automation to improve care coordination, delivery, cost, and outcomes through predictive insights and automation. GuidingCare users are better able to meet the needs of members and providers using intelligent workflows—improving not only their experiences, but their access to essential care services.

1. Intelligent Care Guidance

AI-powered recommendations provide care teams with tailored next steps that align with clinical guidelines and individual member needs. By prioritizing these actions, health plans can streamline care coordination and improve outcomes.

2. Automated Clinical Summaries

Care managers often spend hours sifting through data. GuidingCare reduces this burden by summarizing care management and utilization information into digestible reports. This feature saves time, reduces cognitive overload, and accelerates clinical decision-making processes.

3. Intelligent Document Processing

Manual document management is resource-intensive and prone to errors. GuidingCare automates document and fax processing, improving workflow efficiency and data accuracy while reducing administrative overhead.

4. AI-Powered User Support

Through in-app chat functionality, GuidingCare delivers quick, conversational responses to questions. Whether it’s accessing training materials or reviewing documentation, this feature helps users increase productivity while gaining confidence in using the system effectively.

These AI-powered enhancements make GuidingCare a truly next-generation care management system, capable of keeping pace with the evolving demands of healthcare.

Responsible AI Practices at HealthEdge

The adoption of AI in healthcare also requires a strong commitment to ethical development and execution. HealthEdge ensures its AI capabilities are aligned with best practices for transparency, fairness, and compliance by integrating frameworks like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework.

HealthEdge’s approach includes:

  • Data Privacy and Security: Ensuring compliance with HIPAA and other regulatory requirements.
  • Bias Mitigation: Rigorous testing to avoid algorithmic biases that may compromise equity.
  • Collaboration: Partnering with stakeholders, including providers and members, to ensure AI meets real-world needs.

By prioritizing responsible AI, HealthEdge helps health plans adopt forward-thinking technologies with confidence.

Delivering Value Across the Healthcare Ecosystem

GuidingCare is more than a care coordination solution—it’s a platform that bridges the gap between technology and patient-centered care. Here’s how it benefits key stakeholders:

Health Plans:

  • Automates complex workflows, reducing administrative costs and errors.
  • Personalizes member outreach and engagement, driving better outcomes.
  • Aligns with compliance regulations, minimizing operational risks.

Care Teams:

  • Streamlines decision-making processes with summarized reports and actionable insights.
  • Enhances efficiency through automated tasks and prioritized workflows.
  • Empowers teams to deliver care at the top of their license.

Members:

  • Provides personalized care pathways tailored to their unique health goals and needs.
  • Simplifies access to social services, improving well-being beyond clinical care.
  • Builds trust through transparent, digitally enabled interactions.

A Smarter Way Forward in Care Coordination

The potential of AI in healthcare is undeniable, and tools like GuidingCare have redefined what’s possible for health plans. By providing intelligent, integrated, and actionable solutions, GuidingCare not only addresses today’s challenges but also prepares organizations to thrive in the future of value-based care.

If you’re ready to transform your care coordination workflows and elevate the care experience for your members, explore the capabilities of GuidingCare today. Harness the power of AI to achieve better outcomes, maximize efficiency, and build a healthier tomorrow.

Want to learn more about how HealthEdge solutions are leveraging AI tools to improve care delivery and transform health plan operations? Download our data sheet.

Key Considerations for Evaluating Digital Member Engagement Solutions

The digital transformation of healthcare has fundamentally shifted member expectations. Today’s members expect more than convenience. They want clarity on their care, real-time access to guidance, and tailored support that helps them manage their health and benefits. Health plans must meet these expectations with personalized communication and seamless digital experiences that reflect members’ evolving needs and preferences.

When members have transparency into care plans and next steps, and can interact with care teams continuously, they feel more confident and supported in their health decisions. With one-third of members “very likely” or “likely” to switch insurance plans in the next year, effective digital engagement is a competitive necessity.

For IT executives, evaluating digital member engagement platforms is a strategic decision that influences operational efficiency, member satisfaction, and care outcomes. Poor platform choices can fragment member experiences and overwhelm staff. The right platform, however, can centralize engagement, integrate effectively with a care management solution, streamline workflows, and deliver measurable results across clinical, quality, and financial metrics.

What’s Holding Health Plans Back from Effective Digital Member Engagement?

Despite investments in digital health, many health plans are constrained by legacy systems, siloed technologies, and growing vendor portfolios. The result is often operational inefficiency, inconsistent member experiences, and limited ability to scale or evolve. Some of the pains that health plans experience include:

Disparate Systems and Integration Gaps Create Complexity

Many health plans rely on a collection of point solutions that operate in isolation or require custom integrations. This fragmentation creates inconsistent member experiences, inefficient workflows, and data silos. Care teams may spend more time toggling between systems than engaging with members. Poor interoperability with systems like care management or core administrative processing further impedes whole-person care. Without seamless integration, health plans struggle to identify risks early, coordinate care, or support quality and compliance programs.

Unvalidated Technologies Pose Strategic Risks

The digital health market is saturated with platforms that promise transformative results, but lack demonstrated outcomes. Investing in unvalidated or immature platforms can undermine operational efficiency and erode the member trust that health plans work so hard to build.

Vendor Relationship Complexity Drains Resources

Managing too many vendor relationships creates a substantial administrative burden and complicates support such as IT resources. This complexity often hinders the organization’s agility in responding quickly to evolving member needs and market demands.

4 Attributes of an Effective Digital Member Engagement Solution

To support scalable, sustainable member engagement, health plans should look for platforms that meet four essential criteria:

1. A Comprehensive, Unified Platform.

Consolidated platforms reduce complexity, increase staff efficiency, and ensure a seamless experience for members. Modular designs and high configurability also allow for tailoring solutions to meet specific health plan transformation roadmaps, business models, and member populations.

2. Demonstrated Success with Data-Driven Results.

Health plans should prioritize solutions backed by peer-reviewed studies, customer case studies, and proven performance data. Measurable improvements in cost savings, member satisfaction, and staff productivity distinguish proven platforms from unvalidated tools. It’s also important to look for vendors whose teams bring deep clinical experience and regulatory expertise to help guide implementation, drive adoption and ensure alignment with compliance mandates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), NCQA, and individual states.

3. Scalability and Continuous Innovation.

The healthcare market is dynamic. Platforms must scale with member growth and adapt to regulatory changes like those tied to NCQA Health Equity Accreditation or CMS interoperability mandates. Leading solutions leverage AI and automation to deliver scalable, personalized outreach while supporting plan compliance and quality reporting.

4. Seamless Integration with Care Management.

The most effective digital engagement platforms don’t operate in isolation—they integrate tightly with care management systems and broader infrastructure. By embedding alerts, insights, and chat directly into care manager workflows, integrations reduce workflow disruption and enhance decision-making.

Access to community resources, referral tracking, and SDOH coordination also become frictionless. A well-integrated solution enables more proactive interventions, streamlined collaboration, and more productive care teams without needing to toggle between disconnected tools.

The Proven Value of HealthEdge Wellframe™

The Wellframe digital member engagement platform combines technology, clinical insight, and workflow integration to help health plans achieve measurable performance improvements across engagement, operational efficiency, and member outcomes. Here are five key areas that set Wellframe apart:

A Singular Solution for Member Engagement at Scale

Wellframe empowers health plans to engage and support their full member populations through a single, scalable platform. It offers secure two-way chat, digital health assessments, educational clinical content, and proactive alerts and reminders. These capabilities enable personalized outreach, real-time engagement, and early risk identification aligned with clinical and quality goals.

With omnichannel capabilities and AI-enabled workflows, Wellframe adapts outreach based on each member’s behavior, health risk, and program eligibility. The platform supports preventive care, chronic condition management, and behavioral health while keeping care teams connected with members when and where support is needed most.

Proven Performance Across Clinical and Operational Metrics

At leading health plans, Wellframe has demonstrated:

A Connected HealthEdge Ecosystem Advantage

Wellframe integrates seamlessly with HealthEdge GuidingCare®, a comprehensive care management platform, providing a unified member record that care managers can access and update in real-time. This integration supports real-time care coordination, enhances audit readiness, and allows teams to execute member interventions without jumping between systems.

 Staff Efficiency and Member Satisfaction

Health plans using Wellframe report a 200% increase in care team caseload capacity. The member app maintains a 4.7-star rating in the App Store, a signal of high usability and meaningful member value.

Innovation Driven by Customer Partnership

Wellframe evolves in direct response to health plan feedback. This partnership model ensures continuous alignment with plan goals, upcoming CMS requirements, and new care delivery models. This co-development approach accelerates time to value and keeps customers ahead of the curve.

How to Evaluate Digital Member Engagement Platforms: A Quick Checklist for IT Leaders

To guide your selection of a digital member engagement solution, start by asking:

  • Does the platform unify all engagement functions into a single, scalable solution?
  • Is it tightly integrated with care management to provide a complete view of the member journey?
  • Can it integrate cleanly with our existing technology ecosystem?
  • Are its outcomes backed by credible, data-driven proof points?
  • Can it scale with our growth and adapt to evolving regulatory requirements?
  • Is the vendor a long-term partner committed to continuous innovation and aligned success?

Transform Member Engagement with a Platform That Delivers

Wellframe helps health plans replace fragmented tools with a unified, data-driven approach to member engagement. By combining intelligent workflows, real-time insights, and seamless ecosystem integration, Wellframe enables better care, improved outcomes, and measurable gains across clinical, financial, and member experience metrics.

Learn how Wellframe and the broader HealthEdge ecosystem can help your plan drive transformation, improve member satisfaction, and deliver care with clarity and confidence. Read our case study, “How To Build A Digital Adoption Ecosystem And Deliver Greater Value To Members.”

Healthcare’s Inflection Point: Why Convergence Is the Only Path Forward

The healthcare industry is entering a critical phase of reinvention. Legacy technologies and decades-old operational models are no longer sufficient in today’s complex, data-rich, and high-demand healthcare environment. Especially for health plans, the pressure to modernize and transform is more urgent than ever—and the stakes are high.

Outdated core systems and fragmented processes are holding health plans back. From the inability to harness AI and automate core functions to struggles with regulatory compliance, cybersecurity risks, and declining margins, the burden of operating on legacy infrastructure is growing too heavy to bear. In fact, the switch rate for core administration processing systems (CAPS) from homegrown or legacy platforms is expected to rise to 15–20% over the next five years—a signal that a major shift is underway.

Addressing these challenges is only the beginning. To truly drive meaningful change, health plans must move beyond fragmented point solutions. Unlocking the full potential of emerging technologies—and the valuable data they generate—requires a unified platform that brings everything together in one place.

The Era of Convergence: Where Health Plans and Providers Meet

Healthcare is evolving toward greater collaboration, bringing health plans and providers together like never before. This integrated approach better serves the entire system and, most importantly, the member. To truly transform the healthcare experience, we must bridge the gap between payer and provider operations. This alignment is not only necessary—it’s foundational.

At its core, convergence means bringing together clinical and financial data, technology, and operations across the healthcare continuum. When payers and providers are synchronized, everything flows more smoothly:

  • Claims are processed faster and with fewer errors.
  • Providers can spend more time with patients instead of managing paperwork.
  • Members get a seamless, digital-first experience that drives satisfaction and better health outcomes.

And this isn’t just a theory. For example, 20% of pended claims, which is a claim that requires additional information prior to completing the adjudication process, are due to incomplete or inaccurate provider data. With advanced provider data management (PDM) powered by AI, that 20% can be resolved—delivering immediate, measurable impact. That’s the power of convergence in action.

The North Star: The Ideal Member Experience

Ultimately, the goal isn’t just modernization for its own sake. The real destination is a frictionless, personalized, and digital healthcare journey—the ideal member experience. But this experience is only possible when technology and data are unified across systems and when payers and providers collaborate deeply and consistently.

To get there, organizations must invest in the four pillars of one next-generation platform:

  • Touchless Transaction Processing: Trusted automation to correctly process transactions, reducing manual interventions and making member interactions more productive.
  • Prospective Payment Accuracy: Plans need payments to be right the first time, reducing provider abrasion as well as the time and costs associated with recovering funds.
  • Care Integrity: With greater efficiency and access to reliable, synthesized information, health plans can improve care coordination and delivery.
  • AI-Driven Business Intelligence: AI and machine learning can sift through mountains of data to provide detailed, business-level intelligence critical to informed decisions.

What’s Driving the Shift?

Let’s break it down by industry vs. technology challenges:

Industry Challenges

  • Rising operating costs and shrinking margins
  • Complex regulatory compliance requirements
  • The shift to value-based care models

Technology Challenges 

  • Inability of legacy systems to scale or support AI
  • High reliance on third parties for updates and integration
  • Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and data silos

Each of these challenges reinforces the need for convergence across systems, data, workflows, and relationships. But alone, transformation isn’t enough. The solution is convergence across systems, data, workflows, and relationships.

The Future of Healthcare Starts Here

Healthcare stands at an inflection point. The convergence of health plan and provider data, technology, and operations is not just the next step—it’s the only viable path forward. And it all points to one guiding principle: the member experience as the North Star.

By embracing this convergence, we can finally break through the inefficiencies of the past 50 years and heal a broken system.

Learn more about how your team can Converge Without Limits with HealthEdge®.

 

 

Six Steps for Accelerating Digital Member Engagement’s Time to Value  

Health plans face evolving industry dynamics that demand quick action and measurable outcomes. Rising member expectations, regulatory requirements and financial considerations all point toward the need to accelerate time to value from innovative technology investments. As digital member engagement becomes a top priority for improving member outcomes, health plans seek technology approaches that deliver early wins while building toward comprehensive transformation. 

Based on insights from leading health plans finding success with digital member engagement, these six strategic steps can help streamline implementation, drive adoption, and achieve meaningful outcomes faster. 

1. Align Technology to Real-World Workflows 

Realizing value quickly requires finding the right balance between technology capabilities and established processes. Rather than forcing new tools into rigid workflows or completely disrupting existing systems, successful health plans create a middle ground that enhances operations while adapting technology to their unique requirements. 

“If you expect your software to use the same workflow you’ve always had, you’re not optimizing the software. You have to understand how the platform functions, what it can do, and then tweak your workflows to match it.” 

– Chief Medical Officer at a Regional Health Plan 

Digital tools should become a natural part of care managers’ routines, streamlining work and reducing cognitive burden. For example, digital check-ins, real-time risk alerts, and asynchronous communication with members via chat can enhance efficiency and prioritize outreach, all while preserving core clinical workflows. 

2. Empower Care Teams Through Change Management 

Adopting digital member engagement represents a cultural shift, not just a product rollout. Success depends on helping care teams embrace new tools and workflows. 

Health plans can foster adoption by implementing several concrete change management strategies: 

  • Define the “why” clearly. Ground the transformation in shared goals, such as improving member engagement or reducing staff burden. 
  • Involve staff early. Bring care managers into the process during vendor selection, demos, and workflow discussions. 
  • Identify champions. Engage frontline leaders who can advocate for the change and support peers through adoption. 
  • Train in context. Offer role-specific, hands-on training sessions tied to real-world tasks, not just theoretical overviews. 
  • Align incentives. Adjust care team performance metrics to reflect digital engagement goals and new workflows.

The focus should be on building confidence in how technology makes care teams’ work easier and more effective, while recognizing the significant effort required to manage this change effectively. 

This mindset shift helps scale digital engagement without increasing staff burnout, ensuring all team members are on board with the transformation. 

3. Use Targeted Use Cases to Build Momentum 

The fastest path to value begins with focus. Rather than launching a digital platform across every population and program at once, successful health plans start with clear, measurable use cases with high impact potential. 

Prenatal and postpartum care was a natural starting point for Denver Health Medical Plan’s digital engagement transformation. This population faces complex social and clinical challenges, representing a significant opportunity to improve outcomes, satisfaction and quality measures. 

By zeroing in on maternity care, Denver Health aimed to quickly demonstrate value through increased member engagement, stronger continuity of care, and improved access to support resources. Starting with a targeted population allows the team to refine workflows, build internal buy-in, and develop a proven model for broader rollout. 

Plans looking to replicate this approach should: 

  • Identify populations with high social barriers and known gaps in engagement. 
  • Choose metrics that clearly reflect success, such as care plan adherence, follow-up visit completion, and HEDIS outcomes. 
  • Build internal momentum with early wins that show measurable impact. 

4. Choose a Strategic Partner, Not Just a Platform 

Fast, sustainable results hinge on choosing the right vendor. Technology alone isn’t enough. Plans need a partner who brings strategic insight, implementation experience, and a long-term commitment to success. 

A strong partner collaborates on workflow optimization, supports adoption across departments, and evolves the solution based on frontline feedback. They should be aligned with your organization’s goals and help simplify the path to ROI. 

Look for a partner that offers: 

  • A structured onboarding and change management process 
  • Configuration support aligned to your specific workflows 
  • Member marketing and engagement expertise 
  • Regular business reviews and product roadmap collaboration 

When technology is paired with expert guidance, health plans can move faster with greater confidence.  

5. Leverage Integration to Reduce Friction 

Digital tools are most effective when they fit seamlessly into existing health plan infrastructure. Seamless integration with the core care management platform eliminates redundant work, ensures consistent data access, and simplifies training. 

Rather than managing disconnected systems, plans benefit from: 

  • A unified member view. Care managers can see digital interactions, assessments, and risk indicators in one place. 
  • Automated task flows. Activities initiated in one system flow directly into the care management platform, reducing manual effort. 
  • Shared insights. Real-time data on clinical, behavioral, and social determinants drive more targeted, timely interventions. 

Reducing friction improves productivity and adoption. Care managers are more likely to use digital tools when they don’t have to toggle between screens, replicate documentation, or guess where member information lives. Digital integration helps make digital engagement a natural extension of their workflow. 

6. Measure What Matters to Drive ROI 

Accelerating time to value requires clear metrics and a consistent approach to tracking impact. While member enrollment and usage rates are important, they’re just the beginning. The true measure of success lies in outcomes that align with business goals. 

Plans should monitor both leading indicators and long-term results, including: 

  • Caseload scalability. Are care managers able to reach more members while sustaining quality? 
  • Engagement effectiveness. Are members responding to digital check-ins, completing assessments, and taking action? 
  • Quality outcomes. Are gaps in care closing? Are Star Ratings and HEDIS scores improving? 
  • Cost and utilization. Is there a reduction in ER visits, admissions, or missed appointments? 
  • Staff satisfaction. Are care teams more productive and less burdened? 

By tying performance to strategic objectives, health plans can demonstrate ROI, continue innovating, and refine their approach over time. 

From First Steps to Full Impact 

Digital member engagement doesn’t have to be a slow, complex journey. With strategic implementation, health plans can accelerate ROI and empower their care teams to deliver better care, faster. 

Putting these strategies into practice requires the right technology foundation. The HealthEdge Wellframe™ platform was designed with these principles, offering an omnichannel approach to engaging members through secure chat, digital assessments, tailored care programs and real-time insights. Supporting members across the risk spectrum, Wellframe enables care teams to deliver more effective, personalized interventions at scale. 

When integrated with the HealthEdge GuidingCare® care management platform, Wellframe becomes part of a comprehensive ecosystem that helps health plans streamline workflows, empower teams and achieve meaningful results faster. 

Visit HealthEdge.com to learn how Wellframe can help your health plan accelerate digital member engagement, improve care outcomes and enhance operational efficiency. 

 

 

The Next Generation of HealthEdge®: Our Strategic Vision for the Future  

The healthcare payer market is at a critical juncture, driven by increasing market pressures, consumer demands, and the need for technological modernization. At HealthEdge®, we believe payers have the opportunity to transform challenges into opportunities by leveraging cutting-edge tools and next-generation solutions. With over 110 million covered lives using our platforms and a proven track record of innovation, HealthEdge is uniquely positioned to empower payers to advance administrative efficiencies, improve patient outcomes, and make complex operations more cohesive.

This blog outlines the core components of HealthEdge’s vision, addressing current market forces, the challenges payers face, and how HealthEdge delivers actionable solutions that align with future industry needs.

Industry Pressures for Healthcare Payers

The payer landscape is undergoing an immense transformation, influenced by shifts towards value-based care models, rising cybersecurity threats, and increased regulatory demands around interoperability. Additionally, organizations face growing pressure to contain costs and enhance operational efficiency.

Some of the most prominent payer industry pressures include:

  • Decreasing Margins: Payers face significant financial strain due to record-high medical and labor costs and rate changes
  • New Products and Value-Based Care: Payers need to manage complexity associated with implementing innovative product design and value-based payments
  • Security Risks: Recent cyber security breaches have increased payer focus on ensuring deployment of infrastructure and technology to manage potential threats
  • Need for Data Interoperability: Payers are under significant (regulatory) pressure to improve interoperability and enhance patient engagement and outcomes

This is coupled with the emergence of advanced technology:

  • Opportunity for AI and Automation: 
    • 97% of payers expect to increase funding for generative AI (approximately 40% spend increase)
    • Critical service cost savings can only be realized with a next-gen underlying code
  • Technical Flexibility:
    • 83% of payers expect to increase funding for app modernization (approximately 30% spend increase)
    • Payers can only manage increasing complexity with robust core technology
  • Cloud: 
    • 80% of payers expect to increase investments in the cloud (approximately 30% spend increase)
    • Moving to the cloud is essential for payers to maintain robust stability while scaling and managing security
  • Mobile and Cross-System Compatibility:
    • 90% of payers expect to increase funding integration tech (approximately 20% spend increase)
    • Payers need a connected system that enables better patient engagement and stakeholder collaboration

These challenges have created an ‘inflection point’ for healthcare payers, signaling a clear need for solutions that offer operational resilience and enable transformational change. The modernization of IT systems is critical for healthcare payer CIOs, with digital payers being 3x more likely to achieve above-industry revenue and margin growth.

HealthEdge’s Vision for an Optimized Future 

At HealthEdge, our vision is to innovate a world where healthcare can focus on people. Our mission is clear: to drive healthcare transformation through a single digital ecosystem that delivers advanced automation and clinical engagement among healthcare payers, providers, and patients.

With a strong foundation of products and a forward-thinking approach to innovation, we aim to revolutionize payer operations while keeping customer needs at the forefront.

The HealthEdge Ecosystem: Delivering Synergies with Scalability

Healthcare payers need a partner that not only understands their challenges but also provides a clear roadmap for overcoming them. HealthEdge delivers this by addressing payer concerns at both the administrative and strategic levels.

Integrated Benefits to Core Operations

Unlike standalone solutions, HealthEdge product combinations result in highly synergistic, integrated benefits to payers’ core operations.

Benefits of Integrated Digital Solutions: 

  • HealthRules® Payer + HealthEdge Source™:
    • Accelerates accurate adjudication by incorporating pre-adjudication pricing and editing in one call
    • Reduces strain on payer IT infrastructure by providing integrated support services
  • HealthRules Payer + HealthEdge GuidingCare®
    • Ensures appropriate utilization by ensuring utilization and care managers have access to real-time benefits and claims information
    • Facilitates accurate claims adjudication by HealthEdge GuidingCare submitting appropriate claims prior auth information to HealthEdge HealthRules Payer in required format
  • HealthEdge Wellframe™ + GuidingCare
    • Decreases duplicate data entry in clinical platforms
    • Integrates and streamlines communication between member, provider and payer
    • Aggregates member data to establish best practices that improve care journey recommendations
  • Wellframe + HealthEdge Provider Data Management
    • Synthesizes real-time provider information to ensure the latest credentialing, directories, and repositories are accurate and accessible to members seeking care
  • HealthRules Payer + HealthEdge Provider Data Management
    • Eliminates data mismatches in provider information between systems and timely updates provider data in claims processing to reducing claim delays, denials or rework

These synergistic benefits allow organizations to achieve cost savings, improve scalability, enhance compliance and ultimately, deliver better member experiences. Combinations of three or more products further emphasize the value of HealthEdge’s product suite offering and provide outsized returns to payers.

Core System-of-Record and Mission Critical Solutions

HealthEdge provides the core system-of-record and mission critical solutions that enable key payer technology workflows.

HealthEdge Core Solutions

Claims Management

HealthEdge HealthRules Payer helps payers manage and adjudicate claims submitted by providers. It serves as the integrated source of truth for payer tech stacks

Payment Integrity

HealthEdge Source provides a range of pre-pay capabilities with a differentiated pricing solution (and also includes claims editing)

Care Management and Digital Member Engagement

HealthEdge GuidingCare streamlines and automates care management workflows. At the same time, HealthEdge Wellframe enables digital member engagement and integrates with HealthEdge GuidingCare to facilitate clinical and administrative communication with members

Provider Data Management

HeathEdge’s Provider Data Management solution creates a “golden record” of provider data – it ingests, enhances, and distributes provider data to all other required systems and processes.

HealthEdge Enabled Solutions

Business Strategy

HealthEdge HealthRules Payer provides critical business intelligence to shape payer strategy, including analyzing customer segments and identifying profitability improvement opportunities

Product Development

HealthEdge HealthRules Payer and HealthEdge Source provide critical data to inform pricing and actuarial; data also informs refinement of existing products and build of new products

Marketing and Sales

Payers leverage combination of customer and HealthEdge HealthRules Payer data to respond to RFPs and set pricing using data analytics

Enrollment and Billing

Payers enroll members in respective systems to ensure products and benefits are configured properly and submitted claims are paid promptly and accurately via HealthEdge HealthRules Payer

4 Core Pillars of the HealthEdge Innovation Strategy

HealthEdge’s future vision is anchored by four strategic pillars, which serve as guiding principles for our solutions and organizational goals.

1. Touchless Transaction Processing

Our vision is seamless integration, with the long-term benefit of 100% touchless transaction processing in production. We envision a future where all transactions can be processed without human intervention, creating meaningful operational efficiencies for payers.

2. Payment Accuracy Transformation

Our vision is the elimination of payment recoveries with 99%+ payment accuracy. By integrating pricing and edits capabilities upstream, our solutions can eliminate administrative overhead, reduce provider abrasion, and enable accurate payments.

3. Care Integrity Optimization

Our vision is to increase care delivery effectiveness to optimize medical spend and payer performance. Our solutions GuidingCare and Wellframe work in tandem to optimize the care patients receive.

4. AI-Powered Business Intelligence

Our vision is to drive analytics for benchmarking, next-level operational insights, and proactive recommendations. Our approach to AI revolves around consolidating fragmented data and making it actionable, empowering organizations to make data-driven decisions in real time.

A Future Built on Innovation and Collaboration

While the healthcare payer landscape keeps evolving, our commitment to delivering innovative solutions remains constant. HealthEdge’s vision is centered not just on creating premium technology but enabling payers to experience the business attributes of improved end-user and consumer centricity, ever-reducing transaction costs, ever-increasing quality and ever-increasing service levels and business transparency.

Are you ready to explore a smarter, more efficient way forward? Discover how HealthEdge can help your organization adapt, optimize, and thrive amidst today’s challenges.

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Transforming Healthcare Technology: Building Intelligent Ecosystems from Siloed Systems

Healthcare is at a crossroads. Legacy platforms, endless point solutions, and mounting regulatory pressure are all warning signs on the road to change. The need for transformation is clear, even if the path forward is foggy.

What worked 10 years ago just won’t cut it anymore. Best-in-class point solutions without deep integration are expensive, inefficient, and ultimately unsustainable. Siloed data is a strategic liability in an era where intelligence and automation are table stakes.

So how do we move forward?

The Problem: Fragmentation Everywhere

We’ve been told for years that picking the “best tool for the job” is the smart play. But in healthcare, that’s led us to a situation where every team uses different tools, none of them talk to each other, and the data is scattered everywhere. It’s hard enough to do basic business intelligence when data is stuck in silos, let alone leverage advanced analytics or employ artificial intelligence (AI). The truth is that siloed data never becomes intelligent.

This fragmentation also slows everything down—product delivery, regulatory response, customer experience. And just as AI tools explode into the market, we’re further splintering our infrastructure trying to keep up.

The Pivot: From Point Solutions to Unified Platforms

At HealthEdge®, we believe the only way to solve this is with deep, foundational integration—across data, user experience, and development.

The Experience Platform

HealthEdge is addressing this challenge head-on by bringing its products together into a single, cohesive experience platform. This standardizes the user interface across all applications—delivering consistency in design, workflows, and functionality.

That consistency reduces friction. That’s what the HealthEdge Experience Platform delivers for healthcare operations. Whether you’re a claims processor or an administrator, you know how to navigate, where to click, and how to get things done. It’s intuitive. It’s efficient. It’s scalable.

The Intelligence Platform

On the back end, we’re merging all our data into a unified intelligence layer—a modern data lake and warehouse that supports real-time reporting, cross-platform analytics, and AI-powered insights—all without requiring advanced technical skills.

This platform opens the door to advanced capabilities like touchless transaction processing, where manual workflows, such as claims adjudication, can be significantly reduced or even eliminated through automation and intelligent decision support. This is the foundation of truly intelligent healthcare: built-in AI that reduces manual work, flags inefficiencies, and helps automate decision-making.

The Regulatory Landscape: Interoperability as an Opportunity

Interoperability is often viewed through the lens of regulatory burden, but there’s a bigger opportunity here. By enforcing common standards for data exchange, interoperability done right is a business enabler.

Think of it like a typical USB. At some point, the tech industry decided to stop shipping different cables and adapters for every device. USB became the standard. That’s what healthcare needs and what these new regulations are driving toward.

When data is standardized and systems can plug into each other seamlessly, everyone wins—payers, providers, and most importantly, patients.

The Ecosystem Is the Platform

An ecosystem isn’t a list of vendors. It’s not a hodgepodge of tools that don’t interact or work together. It’s a connected, intelligent, outcomes-driven platform.

Our integration layer, HealthEdge Hub, delivers standardized and documented APIs that ensure seamless interoperability across our entire product suite. And we’re backing it with an integration platform that connects with 200+ healthcare systems out of the box.

When a health plan needs to connect claims data with care management or benefits transparency tools, it’s not a six-month project anymore. It just works.

Repositioning IT: From Overhead to Strategic Growth Driver

Historically, IT has been seen as a cost center—something to manage and contain. But that mindset is changing. With HealthEdge’s integrated platform, CIOs and CTOs are empowered to shift from managing technology to enabling innovation.

That’s the opportunity here. Our platforms give health plans real-world ROI—not just by shaving margins, but by employing a highly integrated, single platform that leverages AI to create next generation experiences, automation, and intelligence in near real-time. The result? Smarter decisions, faster execution, and measurable business value.

The Bottom Line

Healthcare doesn’t need more tools. It needs a better foundation. The future demands a technology foundation that’s unified, intelligent, and interoperable by design.

HealthEdge’s platform-driven approach:

  • Unifies user experience across all products
  • Consolidates data for meaningful, actionable insights
  • Simplifies and strengthens compliance efforts
  • Accelerates integration across the entire ecosystem
  • Powers automation and intelligent decision-making

This isn’t just an upgrade—it’s a necessary transformation for organizations that want to stay competitive, compliant, and truly responsive to the needs of the healthcare landscape.

To learn more about how HealthEdge is enabling health plans to transform operations and care delivery, view the Converge without Limits video.