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Christiana Care Health System and MEDecision Join to Present Web Seminar -- ''Economic Benefits to Collaborative Data Exchange Between Payers and Providers''

Posted on: Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 09:01 CST

MEDecision, Inc. (Nasdaq:MEDE):

What:

Christiana Care Health System and MEDecision, Inc. (Nasdaq:MEDE) are offering a complimentary Web seminar -- "Economic Benefits to Collaborative Data Exchange Between Payers and Providers."

Progressive health plans are starting to provide payer-based electronic health records at the point of care, believing that more information about a patient leads to faster, more accurate decisions, resulting in better outcomes. A Healthcore study evaluating the economic benefit of utilizing a specific payer-based electronic health record, MEDecision's Patient Clinical Summary (PCS), in a hospital emergency department at a level-1 trauma center found that exchanging the same vital clinical information also resulted in significant cost savings.

Who:

Edward F. Ewen, Jr., MD, Director of Clinical Informatics, Christiana Care Health System

Henry DePhillips, MD, Chief Medical Officer, MEDecision, Inc.

When:

Monday, January 29, 2007

12:30 - 1:30 pm Eastern time (9:30 - 10:30 am Pacific time)

Where:

To register for this free event, go to http://www.medecision.com/Webinars.asp

Details:

Spend 60 minutes taking an informative look at implementation and results of this production clinical data exchange program between a payer and a provider. Topics will cover:

-- Benefits to providing more information to providers in the form of a PCS.

-- Statistically relevant findings of Healthcore's Economic Benefit Study.

-- Implications for health plans and the healthcare industry in 2007 and beyond.

About Christiana Care Health System

Christiana Care Health System, which traces its roots back to 1888, is one of the region's largest not-for-profit health care systems, serving the people of Delaware as well as neighboring Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. A teaching hospital, Christiana Care is recognized as a regional center for excellence in cardiology, cancer and women's health services, as well as Level-I trauma care and Level-3 neonatal intensive care (both highest intensity). Christiana Care operates two hospitals, long-term and transitional care services and an extensive range of outpatient and home health services. Christiana Care provided more than $25 million in charity care last year.

About MEDecision

Founded in 1988, MEDecision provides healthcare payer organizations with software, services and clinical content that allow them to increase administrative efficiency and improve the overall quality and affordability of their members' healthcare. A provider of Collaborative Care Management, MEDecision's technologies analyze data, automate payer workflow processes and electronically connect patients, providers and payers to give each a common view of the patient's medical history, helping to foster better clinical decision making. MEDecision believes that, in the aggregate, its customers insure or manage care for approximately one in every six people in the U.S. with health insurance. For more information about MEDecision, please call 610-540-0202, email MarketingInfo@MEDecision.com or visit www.MEDecision.com.

MEDecision is a trademark of MEDecision, Inc. The MEDecision logo and product names are also trademarks or registered trademarks of MEDecision, Inc. All other names, brands, or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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