Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, Dec. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As the New Year brings hope for mass immunization and a return to some semblance of normal life, Blue Health Intelligence ® (BHI ®) looks to leverage its growing database of commercial medical and pharmacy claims, access to Medicare data, new partnerships, and rapidly expanding analytics capabilities to help the industry transition to a post-COVID future. As we head into 2021, BHI will continue its 16-year run of growing its longitudinal database, already the largest, most conformed, and up-to-date source of truth in healthcare. Soon the BHI National Data Repository will reflect the care experiences of 217 million unique health plan members and contain information on more than 340,000 care providers. It also will contain de-identified claims from 22.6 billion encounters, an increase of 11.3% from the previous year. Of those, 15.9 billion are professional claims, 5.4 billion are pharmacy claims, and 1.14 billion are facility claims.