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Posted October 24, 2007
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: Business News
MEDecision and Medem Reach Collaboration to Give Physicians Vital Clinical Information at the Point of Care
Interoperability enables MEDecision to deliver its patient clinical summary to physicians through Medem's iHealth service.
Wayne, PA, and San Francisco, CA, October 15, 2007 — MEDecision, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDE), a provider of collaborative care management software, services and clinical content to health care payers, and Medem, Inc., a provider of online communications services to physicians and other health care providers, have completed the first phase of a collaborative effort to deliver MEDecision's Patient Clinical Summary (PCS™) to physicians through iHealth, Medem's integrated suite of Web-based physician/patient communication services. The initiative continues MEDecision's efforts to promote health information exchange through increased industry collaboration and interoperability.
"Medem shares our belief that better engaging the primary stakeholders in the health care process is a promising way to improve care and contain costs," said MEDecision founder and CEO David St.Clair. "This is precisely what this collaboration aims to do. By delivering health plan information to support the physician/patient relationship, we can promote better relationships between health plans and physicians, which will directly benefit patients and, ultimately, the system as a whole."
"Delivering patient information to physicians within their existing office workflow through iHealth is the key to utilization," added Edward Fotsch, MD, CEO of Medem Inc, which provides the iHealth service. "The MEDecision PCS data is a major addition to iHealth that further empowers physicians and their patients with accurate information to improve health and care."
A clinically validated, payer-based electronic health record, the Patient Clinical Summary compiles an insured individual's current and historical medical data from doctors, labs, pharmacies and other sources, and augments it with evidence-based medicine to create care plans and offer treatment opportunities in real-time. iHealth, which has been proven to effectively engage patients in better managing their health, is designed to be used by all health care stakeholders: patients, physicians, hospitals and health systems, health plans, employers, allied professionals and caregivers.
MEDecision and Medem will detail their collaboration at the BCBSA Fall Health IT Conference on November 9 at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. St.Clair, Fotsch and Paul Kaplan, M.D., chief medical officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware, will conduct a joint presentation at 9:30 a.m. called "Payer-Provider Partnerships to Deliver Successful PHRs and Online Member Engagement."
For more information on MEDecision, please visit www.MEDecision.com, and for more information on Medem, please visit www.medem.com.
Medem's iHealth service offers physicians and the health care industry a suite of integrated Web-based services that are proven to effectively engage patients in better managing their health. This comprehensive patient communication suite can be used by ALL stakeholders in healthcare — patients, their doctors, hospitals/health systems, health plans, pharmacists, employers, allied health professionals and caregivers. Data on the iHealth network remain under the patient's control and can only be viewed with their permission. iHealth includes the leading online standards-based, secure Personal Health Record (PHR) that is owned and controlled by the patient, can share data with EHR, health plan, pharmacy and other systems and is a secure vehicle for patients to utilize in sharing information and communicating online with their healthcare providers. iHealth also includes an online registration process that eliminates the medical clipboard for office or hospital registration and improves the quality of information across the continuum of care. Additional services include the ability to deliver patient-specific education and care management programs an integrated Health Risk Assessment and automated FDA warnings specific to the patient's medications. Founded by the American Medical Association and several national medical specialty societies, Medem is supported by a broad constituent of industry partners, 45 leading medical societies, patient advocacy groups and government agencies. To learn more about Medem, visit www.medem.com.
MEDecision provides health care payer organizations with collaborative care management software, services and clinical content that allow them to increase administrative efficiency and improve the overall quality and affordability of their members' health care. Highlighted by the Patient Clinical Summary (PCS™), a payer-based, electronic health record, MEDecision's technologies analyze data, automate 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.İFor more information, please visit www.MEDecision.com.
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