Universal American Corp. Further Advances Commitment to Clinical Information Transparency and Quality Through Outcomes Health Information Solutions
Posted on: Thursday, 10 July 2008, 09:01 CDT
Outcomes Health Information Solutions (OHIS) announced today that Universal American Corp. (NYSE: UAM) will leverage OHIS' clinical information platform and services to advance Universal American's ability to optimize the acquisition, management and use of health information for its Medicare Advantage membership.
"As an organization, we are committed to the use of clinical information to optimize the coordination of care for our members" said Patricia Salber, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Universal American - Managed Care Division. "Outcomes' health information platform and information management services will accelerate our ability to leverage patient-centric information in the day-to-day care and management of our Medicare members."
"We are excited about working with Universal American and look forward to this highly collaborative partnership, which is based on a mutual commitment to achieve clinical information transparency," said Wanda Kochhar, OHIS' Co-founder and Chairperson. "Outcomes is dedicated to the acquisition and mobilization of data to remove barriers to comprehensive adoption of evidence-based medicine. Our service delivery platform, called Eco-Scaling(sm), allows us to reduce time, expense and disruptions to the health care delivery system while increasing transparency and access to meaningful information for our clients."
Outcomes will also deploy ALERT(TM), the OHIS adaptive learning engine, to identify all Universal American's Medicare Advantage members with chronic conditions. "This is very different from the solutions being offered that tout "complex algorithms to target specific members with the highest yield" for the purpose of optimizing risk adjusted payments. We believe we should be focusing on all members with chronic conditions to identify and close gaps in care. This model supports the patient-centric focus of our clients by maximizing the collection of all appropriate member diagnoses, including those chronic conditions that are managed through our client's disease management programs.
About Universal American Corp.
Universal American offers a diverse range of healthcare products - including health insurance, managed care and prescription drug benefits - through its subsidiaries. Its companies are collectively among the leading providers of Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug plans in the United States, as over 2 million seniors rely on Universal American's products for their health or prescription drug coverage. For more information on Universal American, visit its Web site at www.universalamerican.com.
About Outcomes Health Information Solutions (OHIS)
Since 1996, the healthcare research and technology professionals at OHIS have been defining and refining the business of acquiring health information. Today, Outcomes Health Information Solutions, LLC (OHIS) is a leading provider of health information management and analytics solutions. OHIS uses its highly scalable proprietary technologies, Outcomes Data Information Systems (ODIS(TM)) and ALERT(SM), as the engine behind a range of services to deliver customized web-based solutions for acquiring, mining, mobilizing, and reporting healthcare data for improving payment integrity, health outcomes, quality and safety, and health and wellness programs. Using its technological advantage to transform a constant flow of claims data from disparate sources and encounter data from the point of care into a uniform format, OHIS aggregates health information at the member or patient level to provide data on demand to a diverse group of clients. For more information on Outcomes Health Information Solutions, visit its Web site at www.outcomesinc.com or contact Jill Berlingo at (770)-613-4497 or jberlingo@outcomesinc.com.
Source: Business Wire
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