Microsoft Healthcare United States

MDLIVE for Cigna

Real-time Analytics

The company wanted to predict seasonal fluctuations of illnesses to reduce patient wait times and better balance the workloads of its medical professionals.

"In 2022, we saw about 25 percent higher patient volume than in 2021," says Bergquist.
It has reduced patient wait times by more than 50 percent even as usage has grown each year.
It takes 90 to 120 days for MDLIVE for Cigna to verify the credentials of its providers, so it must have a way to predict future demand if it is to meet patient needs.
Telehealth provider MDLIVE for Cigna serves 62 million people in 50 US states and 10 territories.

Reported impact

Business outcome

The telehealth provider has cut patient wait times by more than 50 percent and significantly reduced the need for provider incentives during patient demand surges by using Azure Machine Learning and AIDAN forecasting.

  • Customer Experience
  • Revenue Growth
  • Scalability

Solution

MDLIVE for Cigna built its Microsoft solution to improve analytics and decision-support workflows. The company wanted to predict seasonal fluctuations of illnesses to reduce patient wait times and better balance the workloads of its medical professionals. Key components included Azure Machine Learning ran model inference or heavy processing, and Azure DevOps coordinated workflows, prompts, or deployment. The company also used Azure DevOps to automate and iterate rapidly, enhancing teamwork. The governed Microsoft stack gave MDLIVE for Cigna a reusable foundation for ai and machine learning, devops while keeping deployment, security, and day-to-day operations inside the Microsoft estate. The telehealth provider has cut patient wait times by more than 50 percent and significantly reduced the need for provider incentives during patient demand surges by using Azure Machine Learning and AIDAN forecasting.

Solution architecture

2 components · 2 layers
  1. Compute
    • Azure Machine Learning Builds, trains, and operationalizes predictive models and machine-learning pipelines.
  2. Orchestration
    • Azure DevOps Supports deployment, testing, and release management for the Microsoft solution estate.

Architecture clues

  • The company also used Azure DevOps to automate and iterate rapidly, enhancing teamwork.

Evidence from the source

"In 2022, we saw about 25 percent higher patient volume than in 2021," says Bergquist.
It has reduced patient wait times by more than 50 percent even as usage has grown each year.
It takes 90 to 120 days for MDLIVE for Cigna to verify the credentials of its providers, so it must have a way to predict future demand if it is to meet patient needs.
Telehealth provider MDLIVE for Cigna serves 62 million people in 50 US states and 10 territories.
The company wanted to predict seasonal fluctuations of illnesses to reduce patient wait times and better balance the workloads of its medical professionals.
The telehealth provider has cut patient wait times by more than 50 percent and significantly reduced the need for provider incentives during patient demand surges by using Azure Machine Learning and AIDAN forecasting.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 85/100 reference value · 87% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value85/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth15/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    3 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale5/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence87%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    6 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity8/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Microsoft

    MDLIVE for Cigna customer story

    First-party
    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1629931471145237982-mdliveforcigna-health-provider-azure-en-united-states
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Apr 28, 2023
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Apr 28, 2023 · Microsoft · First-party
    Open date source
Not separately sourced Industry, Region, Company size. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.