Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Expands Teradata-Driven Enterprise Intelligence Infrastructure for More Analytical Power.Growing Data Warehouse Insights Help Drive Transformation Across the Business DAYTON, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. (BCBSNC BCBSNC Bluecross Blueshield North Carolina ), a leader in delivering innovative health care products, services and information to more than 3.5 million members, is expanding its Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse EDW Edwards, CA (aviation indentifier) EDW Electronic Document Workflow (paperless initiative of Defense Contract Management Agency) EDW Estimated Dry Weight ), Teradata Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TDC TDC Top Dead Center TDC Time-to-Digital Converter TDC Tabular Data Control TDC Total Development Cost TDC Texas Department of Corrections TDC The Discovery Channel TDC Torpedo Data Computer TDC Theater Deployable Communications ) announced today. The additional analytical power will accommodate the organization's growing information requirements The information needed to support a business or other activity. Systems analysts turn information requirements (the what and when) into functional specifications (the how) of an information system. across new subject areas, additional analysts and users. The BCBSNC data warehouse from Teradata, now in its fifth year since implementation, serves as an increasingly centralized, enterprise database used for a wide variety of business processes. The database provides detailed analytical intelligence on a large scale to improve the quality and cost of health care for millions. The Teradata system is an enabler of business transformation - moving the business beyond claims processing to becoming a trusted advisor in healthcare intelligence and planning, wellness management and patient counseling services. "The Teradata upgrade will significantly improve our capability to handle vastly expanding data volumes, heavier decision-support demands and complex mixed workloads," said Jo Abernathy, vice president of decision support for BCBSNC. "Our use of the data warehouse involves deep analysis for strategic intelligence as well as for insights into the quality and costs of medical care, and requires real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. load, with immediate information access to support the needs of a growing community of business users." The secure and protected Teradata data warehouse helps BCBSNC analyze multiple terabytes of detailed data linked to millions of health insurance claims, patient experiences, doctors, hospitals, treatments, procedures and enrollment groups to answer complex questions and gain valuable insight into trends, costs and quality of care. "BCBSNC has a dynamic and growing analytics network and we are proud to be providing the intelligence platform for their ongoing business transformation," said Mo Struder, regional director for Teradata finance, insurance and healthcare solutions. "As the healthcare industry moves from a process-transaction focus to a patient-relationship focus, healthcare organizations like BCBSNC are evolving to the more elevated role of trusted advisor across a wide range of constituents. Having rich, detailed enterprise intelligence is key in this shift." Teradata's market momentum in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries continues as companies modernize and integrate critical information by replacing limited-use data appliances and data marts as well as slow, aging legacy data systems. Teradata's presence in the health care business includes many leading healthcare organizations including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Medicare and Medicaid U.S. government programs in effect since 1966. Medicare covers most people 65 or older and those with long-term disabilities. Part A, a hospital insurance plan, also pays for home health visits and hospice care. , WellPoint, Highmark, Medco, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. . In addition, a recent Teradata case study on insurance leader Unum Corporation is available at http://www.teradata.com/t/page/152526/. A new report profiling the use of data warehousing in the healthcare business has been released by Winter Corporation, and it cites dramatic results and case studies from a number of high-profile healthcare organizations, including two large government agencies at the federal and state levels. This report can be accessed at: [http://www.teradata.com/t/page/173382index.html]. About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is a leader in delivering innovative health care products, services and information to more than 3.5 million members, including approximately 820,000 served on behalf of other Blue Plans. For 74 years, the company has served its customers by offering health insurance at a competitive price and has served the people of North Carolina through support of community organizations, programs and events that promote good health. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
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