Joe Taylor, Blue Cross Blue Shield Of TexasJoe Taylor, Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas

After seeing the chaos wrought by Hurricane Katrina, Joe Taylor and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas' IT department identified 830,000 subscribers most likely to be affected by Hurricane Rita and generated health-care records for them based on three years of claims data--months ahead of the insurers planned move to E-records. Doctors were able to retrieve records from a call center or online.

Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud

January 20, 2006

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Joe Taylor, VP of Enterprise Business Process, Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas

Photograph by Misty Keasler Joe Taylor
VP of Enterprise Business Process,
Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas
Interview by Charles Babcock

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Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud

Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for information and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism. He joined the publication in 2003.

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