Judi Health is teaming up with Clear to embed identity verification tech in its Judi enterprise healthcare platform.
The company said in an announcement Thursday morning that it will integrate Clear's CLEAR1 platform into Judi, which will help to digitize the patient intake process. The tech will lower the need for manual verifications and nix redundancies, making it easier to share key data.
The news was first provided to Fierce Healthcare.
Sunil Budhrani, M.D., chief strategy and medical officer for Judi Health, said in an interview that a consistent challenge has been transparency and interoperability for patient records. Patients often struggle to access their own health data, he said.
"I always can check my financial record by sticking my ATM card in a machine," Budhrani said. "I can't do that in healthcare."
Given Judi's origins as the transparent pharmacy benefit manager Capital Rx, improving transparency and access to data is a key priority. In addition, the CLEAR1 tool is already deployed across multiple leading health systems and the Medicare App Library, making them an easy choice as a partner.
Capital Rx announced in September that it would rebrand as Judi Health, spotlighting its focus on continuing to build out the tech platform. As it expands the reach of Judi across multiple employer and plan markets, including government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, it's making new and more efficient processes as well as security key priorities.
Budhrani said that the focus on security has allowed Judi to be one of the younger PBMs that has the ability "to play in the Medicare space."
"What this company has had the opportunity to do, building architecture from scratch, was making sure it's built securely," he said. "We've done standards that are so high to be able to comply with government and non-government work. It's really put us in a very unique position with our Judi platform."
Clear's work with Medicare means that rigor around security is shared, he said.
"Over the last eight years, we've been very thoughtful about who we partner with and who kind of has the same security standards, the same mission, the same passion, the same importance," Budrhani said.