OIT and South Carolina BlueCross Complete Integration Project With IBM's OD390.STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Optical Image Technology, Inc. (OIT OIT Organización Internacional del Trabajo (Spanish: International Labor Organization) OIT Organisation Internationale du Travail (International Labour Organization) OIT Office of Information Technology ) has recently completed a major software integration project with BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. (BlueCross). The project, led by OIT, integrated OIT's DocFinity image repository with their IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R) mainframe On Demand 390 image repository (OD390) The project recently received a first-place Process Innovation Award from Kinetic Information LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control for its success. BlueCross, a major insurer and the largest processor of Medicare and TRICARE claims in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , manages large amounts of paperwork that must comply with time-sensitive government-mandated service level agreements (SLAs). With the goal of improving efficiency in all areas, BlueCross decided that the best solution was a paperless workflow, built around its corporate image repository. BlueCross selected DocFinity(R) software, which includes Web Services, to interact with OD390 in order to access, retrieve, and route paper documents electronically. The integration was able to utilize the existing RACF (Resource Access Control Facility) IBM mainframe security software introduced in 1976 that verifies user ID and password and controls access to authorized files and resources. RACF - Resource Access Control Facility security layers that BlueCross had in place. The final phases of the integration project were rolled out recently, and BlueCross is now able to expedite service processing with greater speed and accuracy, even with third parties from remote locations. "DocFinity software is capable of major integrations like the one at BlueCross, opening doors for companies to pursue paperless processing, whether they already have an image repository or not," said Harold Hockman, OIT's director of professional services. BlueCross currently has five business units that now have greater access to the more than four billion documents housed on OD390. DocFinity is able to access and use automated workflow to push critical images such as correspondence, appeals payments, receipts, medical records, enrollments and other materials through its operations areas paperlessly. "Our leveraging of the OIT solution and our image repository is just beginning. When the project spans the enterprise, there will be no paper-initiated workflows in our organization. When you eliminate passing the paper, you realize significant quality and cost improvement," said Anne Castro, Chief Design Architect at BlueCross. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina (www.SouthCarolinaBlues.com) is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
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