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Wellogic Teams With PricewaterhouseCoopers To Help Health Systems and Communities Launch Health Information Exchange Initiatives

Posted on: Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 09:00 CDT

Wellogic and PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industries Group announced today that they have formed an alliance to collaboratively help health systems, regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and communities implement health information exchange (HIE) initiatives, enabling them to integrate and share patient information electronically. Regional health information exchanges have become a critical building block in federal efforts to build an interoperable National Health Information Network designed to facilitate electronic health records for all Americans, reduce the nation's healthcare costs and improve the quality of patient care.

Together, PwC and Wellogic will offer a comprehensive set of services and expertise, including an HIE technology platform, best practice guidance and implementation blueprints and services. Their combined capability allows them to offer a complete package of products and services, ranging from relationship, policy and financial model development to implementation of technology and tools for managing, evolving and reporting on shared clinical data, as well as for educating the community about the benefits of health information exchange.

"Over the past six months, an increasing number of our clients across the country have been investigating HIE strategies and technology," said David Levy, principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industries Advisory practice. "We welcome the opportunity to work with Wellogic, an organization with deep experience in healthcare interoperability that is well positioned to deliver technology to help transform care models and process and to enable the delivery of improved quality and safety of care throughout the patient population."

PwC and Wellogic are already working together with a joint client, AtlantiCare, the largest healthcare organization in southeastern New Jersey. They are enabling AtlantiCare to realize its vision of a "connected community," which includes not just hospitals, physician practices, pharmacies and diagnostic service providers, but also payers, employers, unions, patients and their caregivers. For example, patients and employers will be brought into the fold with personal health records and workplace health benchmarking. The joint effort is accelerating the health system's progress, allowing them to see more effective results faster.

"It is so exciting to be connecting the many components of our highly fragmented industry and creating a truly patient-centric longitudinal record of care," said Bruce Henderson, president of Wellogic. "The transformation is beginning, and Wellogic's cornerstone technology and dedication to partnering with clients for long-term success, coupled with PwC's extensive outlook on the industry, position us to provide unmatched experience and success in delivering advanced interoperability. We welcome partnerships with progressive health systems who have an ambitious vision to change how care is delivered in their communities."

Wellogic health information exchange solutions provide clinicians, other caregivers, and patients with ready availability of community-wide patient information, regardless of care venue. Its capabilities include a community-wide master entity index, nomenclature services for mapping terminologies, a clinical data repository and a data warehouse, as well as tightly integrated provider, patient, and care management portals.

"We have spent more than 15 years developing a deep understanding of the toughest challenges confronting the healthcare industry and working with physicians and other caregivers to overcome enormously complex data sharing issues," said Sumit Nagpal, Wellogic's founder, chairman and CEO. "Fragmentation of clinical information is the hurdle we must overcome before we can make material improvements in safety and quality. Wellogic's proven, flexible technology, combined with our dedicated experience in connecting healthcare systems and workflows, is an ideal match with PwC's long-standing industry leadership and expertise. We are pleased to be able to add a partner of this caliber to our professional services capability."

About Wellogic

Wellogic provides clinical solutions for connecting the healthcare community. With more than a decade of experience providing interoperability solutions for healthcare, the company truly understands the complexity of critical information flows and has developed a depth of experience in solving some of the most challenging issues confronting the industry today. Wellogic's award-winning Web-based connectivity solutions for physicians and caregivers, patients, health systems and RHIOs are consistently recognized as the most usable, flexible and scalable products available, and are used daily to deliver safer, more cost effective care for millions of patients. For more information, visit www.wellogic.com.

About PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industries Group

Committed to the transformation of healthcare through innovation, collaboration and thought leadership, PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industries Group is the nexus of industry and technical expertise across all health-related industries, including providers and payers, health sciences, biotech/medical devices, pharmaceutical and employer practices.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is the leading professional services organization to align its service offerings around the future direction of the health system. By applying broad understanding of how individual, specialized sectors work together to drive the performance of the overall health system, the Health Industries Group is uniquely positioned to help clients, industry and governments address changing market forces of globalization, consumerism, consolidation and expansion, regulation, technology, workforce and margin compression.

"PricewaterhouseCoopers" refers to the network of member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each of which is a separate and independent legal entity.

All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

Source: Business Wire

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