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Urix Adds Physicans Health Plan of Northern Indiana to Client List

Posted on: Monday, 5 February 2007, 09:01 CST

Urix, a leading independent provider of healthcare business intelligence and predictive modeling solutions, today announced a multi-year contract with Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana, Inc. (PHPNI). PHPNI, a physician-sponsored not-for-profit health maintenance organization, will use the Urix Analytic Platform to deliver comprehensive, detailed reports to evaluate claims experience for their insured and self-funded customers.

The Urix Analytical Platform (UAP) is an enterprise, ETL and data warehouse product with interactive data mining, analytic "cubes", drillable reports, and report publisher with extensive graphing capabilities for employer account reporting. The UAP also uses DxCG predictive models to help quantify the impact of a patient's health status on medical costs and predict future treatment needs of patients.

"The Urix Analytical Platform will give us more insight into the health needs and claims experience of our population, allowing us to better serve our customers and sponsoring physicians with comprehensive reports that will help them understand benefit plan costs" said Randy Kummer, vice president and chief financial officer of Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana. "This valuable information adds to our ability to proactively manage our member population while providing our customers and providers with the information needed to help them understand the drivers of healthcare costs."

"PHPNI's selection of Urix demonstrates the growing need for a complete single enterprise solution for data transformation, data mining and reporting," said John J. Farrell, president of Urix. "We are looking forward to working with Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana."

About Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana, Inc.

Physicians Health Plan works for northern Indiana by providing a variety of employee benefit options to over 1200 northern Indiana businesses. PHPNI is a physician-sponsored managed care organization which has been in the health benefits business since 1983. PHPNI and its subsidiaries provide solutions to commercial customers by offering traditional and high-deductible health plans, third-party administrator services, dental coverage and employer stop-loss coverage.

About Urix

Urix, an ISO business, is a leading independent provider of healthcare business intelligence and predictive modeling solutions. Urix offers web-based analysis and reporting environments for healthcare payors, provider organizations and employers. Urix products and services combine DxCG science with advanced analytics that provide customers with the tools and information needed to, improve healthcare decision-making, manage quality outcomes, and control costs. Urix predictive modeling solutions transforms healthcare data into health-based risk information to better understand cost drivers and delivery systems issues. Smarter data empowers strategic decision-making and creates successful financing, organization and delivery of health services. For more information, visit www.urix.com.

Source: Business Wire

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