Measuring the movement to electronic claims.
Congressional inaction on health care reform during 1994 spelled a temporary halt to efforts to enact government mandates for the use of automated transactions. But even without the added pressure of government mandates, the steady shift to automated health care transactions continued during the year. Now that more of the nation's 1,500 health care payers and 700,000 providers are linked to regional and national electronic data interchange networks, more than one-third of all health care claims are transmitted electronically.
Computer Communication Networks↗