Industry Research
Explore our issue briefs and reports to learn about industry opportunities for cost saving, process automation and more.

Implementing APIs and FHIR Technology: A Vendor Prespective
Learn how vendors are adapting to federal mandates on APIs and FHIR technology, overcoming challenges, and driving innovation in healthcare data exchange.

Implementing FHIR Technology: A Provider Perspective
This issue brief details the challenges providers face in improving interoperability and adopting FHIR.

Increasing Transparency of Healthcare Charges: It’s a Manual Process
This issue brief examines how GFEs are generated and communicated and opportunity areas to reduce provider burden.

Delegated Management Vendors and the Automation Opportunity
This issue brief explores how plans and providers interact with delegated management vendors (DMVs) and identifies opportunities to improve how information is exchanged.

How Health Plans Connect: Payer-to-Payer Data Sharing
This issue brief outlines health plans’ strategies and considerations for interoperability and the use of FHIR APIs to exchange data.

Clinical Documentation
This issue brief, published in June 2022, outlines challenges faced by health plans and providers when exchanging clinical and administrative attachments for prior authorizations and claims.

Accelerating Interoperability and Patient Access
This issue brief explores the healthcare industry's efforts towards meeting the goals of the 2020 CMS Interoperability Rule.

Communicating Attribution: Accessibility of Information to Support Value-based Payment Initiatives
Published in November 2021, this issue brief outlines how patient attribution is exchanged and the challenges providers face related to attribution.