MEDecision Highlights Care Management As a Core Competency for Competitive Differentiation Among Health Plans
Posted on: Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 09:00 CDT
In today's complex health care landscape, health plan organizations face growing pressures to maintain costs, improve outcomes, increase quality, and enhance relationships with members and providers. MEDecision, Inc. (NASDAQ:MEDE) has a proven approach for helping payers operate as efficiently and effectively as possible. In its upcoming Webinar, the company reveals how payers can establish significant, competitive differentiation by focusing on care management as a core competency.
"Succeeding at Care Management Processes and Programs" a MEDecision Webinar, will use its Advanced Medical Management offering to show payers the advantages of an integrated care management solution that lets them administer medical management programs, while providing centralized reporting and maintaining a single source of clinical information.
What: "Succeeding at Care Management Processes and Programs" Webinar
When: Wednesday, May 30, 2007, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time (9:30 a.m. Pacific time)
How: To register for this free event, please visit www.MEDecision.com/webinars.asp
"Payers must be able to automatically and intelligently manage and evaluate both individual and population-wide health care programs," said Kristel Schimmoller, MEDecision's senior vice president of strategic solutions and leader of the May 30th Webinar. "By focusing on care management as a core function to improve health care quality and reduce costs, health plans can differentiate themselves."
"Succeeding at Care Management Processes and Programs" will discuss the following topics:
The benefits health plans can gain by implementing automated care management processes;
How payers can manage their population across the continuum of care and assess the clinical and financial outcomes of care management programs; and
How care management systems can integrate and interoperate with other systems, such as provider and member portals, to further advance the exchange of health information.
About Advanced Medical Management
MEDecision's Advanced Medical Management is a powerful patient care management solution consisting of workflow and detection tools which address the continuum of care management processes, including specialized case and disease management, admission and outpatient certification, referral management, concurrent review, and discharge planning. It allows the care management staff to automatically and intelligently administer, manage and evaluate individual health care programs, as well as programs across their entire patient population. This improves the quality of health care and reduces administrative and medical costs.
About MEDecision
Founded in 1988, MEDecision provides health care 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' health care. 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 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. Other product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. MEDE-G
Source: Business Wire
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