ikaSystems to Demonstrate Healthcare Payers’ New Technology Paradigm at AHIP’s Institute 2008

This week, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Institute 2008 kicks off in San Francisco at the Moscone Center West. ikaSystems, a premier provider of enterprise-level Web-based technologies for healthcare payer organizations, will highlight its new technology paradigm for healthcare payers, which entails the creation of a modular, transactional portal strategy to reduce administrative, medical and information technology cost while increasing health plans’ market agility.

On Thursday, June 19, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Cynthia Burghard, ikaSystems’ senior vice president of market intelligence, will moderate a panel presentation entitled, “Gain Agility, Savings and Competitive Differentiation by Using an Administrative Transactional Portal Platform.” Panelists will be Steve Wiggins, managing director at Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Dave Henderson, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at MVP Health Plan, and Ed McCallister, chief information officer at UPMC Health Plan. This concurrent educational session, part of Institute 2008′s “Driving Innovation to Advance Care” track, will address trends in product design, ways to add new channels of distribution and technology options for online administration of sales, underwriting and customer acquisition.

The following presentations by ikaSystems customers will take place in the ikaSystems booth, #301, during exhibit hours:

— “Portal Strategy: Survival, Growth and the Future,” presented by Dave Henderson on Wednesday, June 18, from 6:30 to 6:50 p.m.

— “How to Reach Auto-Adjudication Rates of Over 85 Percent the First Month After Go-Live,” presented by Chris O’Connor, chief operating officer at Freedom Health, on Thursday, June 19, from 12:45 to 1:05 p.m.

— “Portals as the System of Record,” presented by Carole Henry, assistant vice president of underwriting at Lovelace Health Plan, on Thursday, June 19, from 1:30 to 1:50 p.m.

— “Medicare Membership Growth Without Staff Growth, and Portal Strategy for Commercial Growth,” presented by Ed McCallister on Thursday, June 19, from 6:00 to 6:20 p.m.

— A reprise of Dave Henderson’s presentation on Thursday, June 19, from 7:15 to 7:35 p.m.

For more information or to register for one of the booth presentations, call 774-760-1643 or visit http://www.ikasystems.com/scheduler.asp.

About ikaSystems Corp.

ikaSystems is healthcare payers’ premier provider of Web-based ERP technology for process automation and intelligence management. ikaEnterprise, the company’s flagship product, automates all key processes in the payer business cycle, supporting commercial, Medicare and Medicaid lines of business. The system consists of five stand-alone, self-service Web portals for sales/broker, administrative, employer, member and provider use, each of which are tightly integrated with business intelligence and transactional systems for core claims adjudication, care management and proactive quality measurement and reporting. Using our agile, modular technology, organizations can move quickly to lower administrative and medical care expenses through greater automation and highly intelligent decision-making. To learn more, please visit www.ikasystems.com.