Oklahoma Doctors Give Patients Information Therapy (Ix(R)) To Improve Care Quality
Posted on: Monday, 25 September 2006, 15:00 CDT
Healthwise and MedEncentive have partnered to provide patients with
information therapy (Ix) as part of their health care. Now, doctors can
write a new kind of prescription--not an "Rx,"
but an "Ix." These
Healthwise® Ix
prescriptions are part of a unique pay-for-performance plan offered by
Oklahoma-based MedEncentive.
MedEncentive released a study today providing evidence that its
pay-for-performance plan played a significant role in one employer's
reduction of health care costs. MedEncentive CEO Jeff Greene said, "Of
the more than 100 pay-for-performance programs in existence today, this
is the first to have simultaneously demonstrated physician acceptance,
interactive patient accountability, and a positive return on investment."
Read the separate MedEncentive press release on the study results at www.medencentive.com.
How Ix Works
Information therapy is the prescription of specific, evidence-based
medical information to a patient at just the right time to help him or
her make a specific health decision or behavior change. Doctors
participating in the MedEncentive pay-for-performance program can now
deliver Ix prescriptions before, during, and after office visits, using
more than 5,000 Healthwise health topics.
A doctor uses the MedEncentive Web site to give patients relevant
Healthwise Ix prescriptions. The Web site tracks when the patient reads
the information, and then both the patient and the doctor get "paid"
for this "performance."
Doctors receive a higher reimbursement, and patients receive a
co-payment rebate.
Why Ix Is Important
Ix prescriptions are delivered to reinforce what the doctor and patient
talked about during their visit. The information helps people understand
their conditions, make better health decisions with their doctors, and
take the right actions to improve their health. That means better health
care quality and appropriate use of health care services.
"Healthwise Ix prescriptions are important to
the success of our pay-for-performance program,"
said Mr. Greene. "With the addition of
Healthwise information, physicians trust they can find the information
they want to share with the patient--that it
is accurate, up-to-date, and really helpful."
"Healthwise is excited about the MedEncentive
approach," offered Donald W. Kemper,
Healthwise CEO. "Nowhere have I seen a more
powerful alignment of patient and physician incentives than in the
MedEncentive plan. This system demonstrates the true power of
information therapy."
About MedEncentive
MedEncentive, LLC is an independent information service company that
offers a suite of products which industry experts are hailing as a real
breakthrough in health care cost containment. The MedEncentive Program
lowers cost by interactively rewarding physicians and patients for
incorporating evidence-based medicine (EBM) and information therapy (Ix)
which are delivered through the Company's
proprietary Internet applications. MedEncentive's
value-based compensation of physicians falls into a nationwide movement
referred to as pay-for-performance or P4P. MedEncentive is the first P4P
program to have simultaneously achieved physician acceptance,
interactive patient accountability, and a positive return on investment
(ROI) for employers due to its unique physician-patient interactive
reward strategy. To learn more, visit www.medencentive.com
or call 405.319.8450.
About Healthwise
Healthwise is a nonprofit organization that has been helping people make
better health decisions since 1975. Nearly 75 million times a year,
people turn to Healthwise information for help in making health
decisions. Healthwise works with hospitals, employers, clinics, and
health plans to provide decision-support and self-management information
to the people they serve. Healthwise is leading a major change in health
care to prescribe information therapy (Ix) to patients as part of every
health care encounter. To learn more, visit www.healthwise.org
or call 1.800.706.9646.
Source: Business Wire
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