Recent Experience

NIST/GE/SHINE/Mountain State Blue Cross Blue Shield Project Support

KRM provided technical and management support for SHINE who was selected by HOST to be a test site for a federally funded program. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), a part of the Department of Commerce, funds an Advanced Technology Program (ATP) with the purpose of encouraging high technology solutions to economic growth in America. Together with General Electric (GE) and Mountain State Blue Cross Blue Shield, SHINE has been funded to be the rural test bed.

KRM supported SHINE in serving as the test bed for a software solution that allowed a physician to access multiple payers’ information across the Internet. In the test bed, Mountain State Blue Cross Blue Blue Shield allowed access to their data for the purpose of inputting eligibility and referral information from an Internet browser. The resulting ‘next day’ posting of transactions will allow the physicians to check the results of the transaction instead of waiting for the regular method of reply, through regular mail.