Health Dialog to Showcase New Online DECISION Dialog® Solution on Capitol Hill

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Continua Health Alliance Announces Certification of First Mobile Solution Suitable for Apple Mobile Devices and Wide ...

BEAVERTON, Ore., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Continua Health Alliance, the international industry organization dedicated to advancing personal connected health by promoting end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity of personal health devices and establishing industry standards for interoperability, today announced two new certifications for mobile health technologies. Vignet, Inc., a Continua member company, was certified by Continua for its iPhone Mobile Manager, the first solution for Apple mobile devices that meets Continua standards for interoperability. It is also the first solution to incorporate Continua's WAN (wide area network) guidelines for mobile applications. Vignet demonstrated its Continua-certified solutions last week at Continua's Spring Summit in Austin, TX.

The Vignet iPhone Mobile Manager is a Continua certified software manager that can be easily customized and adapted by various mobile applications and service providers. Implemented using Continua WAN guidelines, the Vignet Mobile Manager enables developers to build custom applications, and connects with other certified personal health devices such as weight scales, blood pressure cuffs or pedometers. It also facilitates integration with various interoperable servers to securely deliver personal connected health data and information.

"We are delighted to recognize Vignet as the first company to have a Continua certified product for Apple iOS mobile devices based on our WAN guidelines. It is another important step in creating an ecosystem of compatible devices and technology to help individuals and their healthcare providers better manage their health and wellness, any time, anywhere," said Chuck Parker, executive director, Continua Health Alliance.

Continua Health Alliance offers a testing and certification program with a recognizable logo that signifies interoperability according to industry standards. Continua certification enables more efficient, standardized development and new market opportunities for interoperable products such as smartphones, dedicated wireless hubs, the Internet and personal health devices that can be used to collect and relay vital health information and education.

"With Continua certification, device manufacturers and solutions providers know that our Mobile Manager is going to link up," added Praduman Jain (PJ), CEO, Vignet. "Now Continua connected health solutions can be rapidly adapted to work on a variety of servers and devices, saving developers significant development time. We are pleased to support the use of mobile phones in providing readily available and convenient personal connected health solutions to improve patient self-management and wellness."

For healthcare delivery, a WAN is a telecommunication network used to transmit collected data securely to medical records storage locations, and between different LANs (local area network) and other types of networks, so that computers or devices in one location can communicate with services or storage in other locations, such as Electronic Health Records (EHRs) or Personal Health Records (PHRs).

About Vignet, Inc.
Vignet is a pioneer in the person-centric mobile healthcare (mHealth) solutions that connect multiple devices belonging to any person with multiple healthcare data sources, networks and caregivers. Vignet's mHealth applications enable a system that is Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participatory. As a contributing member of Continua Health Alliance, Vignet has been a leader of mobile health innovation. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Vignet has an established track record of providing valuable solutions to many parts of the healthcare industry. For more information visit: www.vignetcorp.com.

About Continua Health Alliance
Continua Health Alliance is an international not-for-profit industry organization enabling end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity of personal health devices and services. These services will empower information-driven health self-management and facilitate the incorporation of health and wellness into the day-to-day lives of consumers. Continua is a pioneer in establishing industry standards and security for connected health technologies such as smartphones, gateways and remote monitoring devices. Its activities include a certification and brand support program, events and collaborations to support technology and clinical innovation, and outreach to employers, payers, governments and care providers. With nearly 250 member companies reaching across the globe, Continua is comprised of technology, medical device and healthcare industry leaders and service providers dedicated to making personal connected health a reality. For more information visit: www.continuaalliance.org.

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The Health Information Technology Exchange of Connecticut (HITE-CT) Selects Axway and GE Healthcare for HIE Solution

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WellCare Health Plans Implements MedAssurant's Star Advantage™ Solution

BOWIE, Md., Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MedAssurant, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven health care solutions, today announced that WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG - News), a leading provider of government-sponsored health care programs, has selected MedAssurant's Star Advantage™ and INDICES™ solutions for a multi-year engagement to provide an integrated capability to both better understand and meaningfully impact its CMS Five-Star Quality Ratings. The combined solution leverages the nation's most widely used health care quality measurement system, large-scale health care dataset analytics, and a nationwide clinical operations infrastructure to proactively identify, and both efficiently and effectively resolve gaps in member quality outcomes.

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Star Advantage's predictive analytics are informed by MedAssurant's Medical Outcomes for Research on Economics and Effectiveness (MORE2) Registry™ which contains more than 5.2 billion medical events from more than 77 million unique de-identified individuals. Leveraging the unprecedented insight afforded by this comprehensive dataset, Star Advantage provides WellCare near-real-time insight to identify highly specific opportunities for quality improvement. An additional analytical layer is applied to determine ideal intervention modality, venue, content, and timing for optimal member and provider engagement and gap resolution success. MedAssurant's nationwide infrastructure of clinical call centers, message fulfillment, integrated data platforms, and in-market clinical personnel numbering in the thousands brings to bear an end-to-end capability from analysis to impact -- enabling meaningful quality outcomes improvement.

"WellCare is focused on leveraging innovative approaches that both improve our quality outcomes and help us enhance health and quality of life for our members," said Walter Cooper, Chief Administrative Officer of WellCare. "We are pleased with the opportunity to continue working with MedAssurant and are confident that the unique capabilities offered by the Star Advantage and INDICES solutions will play a key role in helping us achieve our service and quality goals."

"MedAssurant understands the importance of quality outcomes and the necessity for today's leading health care organizations to have detailed, timely insight into their CMS Five-Star Quality Ratings," said Keith Dunleavy, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of MedAssurant. "Even more critical, however, is to have visibility into the predictive progression of these quality ratings and the intervention capabilities to support the achievement of targeted goals. Throughout our relationship with WellCare, we have been very impressed by their attentive approach to best practices with both their members and providers. It is a pleasure to work with a partner that is so clearly and consistently dedicated to these values."

The MedAssurant and WellCare relationship dates back to 2008 when MedAssurant began coordinating clinical data accuracy and claims analytics solutions for WellCare's Medicare lines of business. In 2010, MedAssurant and WellCare expanded their relationship to add prospective analytical processes (known as Prospective Advantage™). With this expansion of the relationship, MedAssurant will now implement its Star Advantage and the INDICES solutions.

About the MedAssurant Solutions

Star Advantage™ enables health plans to both better understand and meaningfully improve their CMS Five-Star Quality Ratings by leveraging the nation's most widely used health care quality measurement system, large-scale health care dataset analytics, and a nationwide clinical operations infrastructure designed to provide deep, dynamically updated insight into clinical quality outcomes and highly sophisticated gap closure capabilities -- end-to-end. Informed by MedAssurant's Medical Outcomes for Research on Economics and Effectiveness (MORE2) Registry™ which contains more than 5.2 billion medical events from more than 77 million unique de-identified individuals, Star Advantage gives health plans near-real-time insight needed to identify highly specific opportunities for quality improvement; derives detailed intervention planning for each specific member's needs, history, behavior and current situation; and then brings to bear highly targeted gap-closure operations using MedAssurant's national and local clinical resources.INDICES™ Reporting and Business Intelligence platform leverages OLAP cube technology and customized pre-calculated analytics to enable health care organizations near-real-time insight into member, provider, and clinical facility care, utilization, quality, disease, demographic, risk score and financial trends and performance. INDICES brings further value by providing comparative insight against over 77 million patients -- enabling users to not only gain deep insight into their own performance with industry-leading detail, but also against highly relevant comparatives otherwise unmatched in the marketplace.About WellCare Health Plans, Inc.

WellCare Health Plans, Inc. provides managed care services targeted to government-sponsored health care programs, focusing on Medicaid and Medicare. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, WellCare offers a variety of health plans for families, children, and the aged, blind, and disabled, as well as prescription drug plans. The company served approximately 2.6 million members nationwide as of December 31, 2011. For more information about WellCare, please visit the company's website at www.wellcare.com.

About MedAssurant, Inc.

MedAssurant, Inc. is a leading technology-enabled health care solutions provider focused on the importance of health care data and its ability to drive dramatic, objective improvement in clinical and quality outcomes, care management and financial performance throughout the health care community. Proprietary health care datasets, aggregation and analysis capabilities, combined with a national infrastructure of leading-edge technology, clinical prowess and deep human resources, empower MedAssurant's advanced generation of health care assessment and improvement through highly informed solutions. Driven by a mission to improve today's health care landscape, the employees of MedAssurant proudly apply care, ingenuity and dedication to delivering a new approach to health care touching nearly 120 million Americans -- one driven by data and insight -- one resulting in meaningful action. Please visit www.medassurant.com for more information.

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Health Fidelity Introduces Solution Partner Program

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Fidelity, Inc., provider of a breakthrough natural language processing (NLP) platform for healthcare, today announced the launch of its Solution Partner Program, designed to help qualified healthcare organizations automate, leverage, and extract the value of unstructured clinical data. 

A wide array of HIT applications are fueled by clinical data, but are constrained by the limited codified content available.   Unstructured clinical data is codified through Health Fidelity's NLP platform, massively increasing usable data.  Together, Health Fidelity and its Solution Partners can tap the hidden value of narrative content to leapfrog the current generation of HIT applications in ease of development and power to address current and future needs.

"Health organizations have vast amounts of unstructured data that are currently unusable. We are making it easier for HIT vendors to harness that information," said Dan Riskin, M.D., CEO of Health Fidelity.  "The majority of physicians' narrative notes, nurses' comments and other unstructured content has yet to be utilized for analytics, presenting an enormous opportunity to improve the efficiency and quality of our healthcare system.  By offering this Partner Program to the HIT community, we can accelerate the integration and measurable benefits of NLP across the full spectrum of solutions, applications and services."

As much as 80 percent of medical information stored by healthcare organizations is unstructured and therefore unusable for extraction, automation, and analytics.  Healthcare organizations seeking ways to comply with meaningful use, ICD-10 conversion and other quality improvement requirements can capitalize on the data they already have to perform more accurate analytics, driving their performance improvement and cost reduction initiatives.  Health Fidelity provides organizations with a cloud-based platform that is adaptable and easy to integrate, facilitating the extraction and application of vast amounts of clinical information.

The Health Fidelity NLP platform incorporates MedLEE, the most accurate, reliable, and extensively validated clinical NLP engine.  In January 2012, Health Fidelity announced an exclusive license in healthcare to commercialize Columbia University's MedLEE technology, leaving the company poised to be a NLP market leader.  

Health Fidelity's Solution Partner Program has three levels of partnership:

Developer Partner – (By invitation only.)  This level includes the market's leading HIT companies, committed to developing solutions that extract measurable value and actionable structure from clinical data.  Health Fidelity engages with Development Partners in joint initiatives on multiple fronts, including engineering, marketing, and sales.Integration Partner – This level includes companies with significant expertise and market presence in a focused area of HIT that is strategic to Health Fidelity.  Qualifying partners must have a presence in one or more of the following solution markets: Quality Analytics, Decision Support, Predictive Modeling, Care Management, EMR, Medical Management, or Billing.  Health Fidelity works with selected partners on both technical and marketing activities to help them capture first mover advantage and new revenue streams.Alliance Partner – This level includes companies and organizations committed to accelerating the application of NLP toward improving healthcare quality and efficiencies. Becoming an Alliance Partner is a great way to get started, with full access to technical information, opportunities for joint collaboration, and marketing exposure.

Health Fidelity's Partner Program delivers structure and resources that enable HIT solution providers to develop and deliver high performance customer solutions that leverage the value of unstructured clinical data.  Lean more about qualifying for the Partner Program by contacting Health Fidelity at partnership@healthfidelity.com. 

About Health Fidelity
Health Fidelity, Inc. (www.healthfidelity.com) offers a clinical natural language processing (NLP) platform that enables HIT solution providers and healthcare organizations (Payers, Providers, Pharmaceutical Companies and Government) to effectively make use of unstructured clinical data, a valuable asset they already own or access. The company works with solutions partners to provide end-user applications built on the robust clinical data extracted and rendered usable by the powerful Health Fidelity platform. As a result, end-users can make better medical decisions, monitor and improve the quality of care, and enable R&D that will bring us to the next frontier in healthcare.

For partnership inquiries, contact Lauryn Jones at partnership@healthfidelity.com.

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SelectHealth Chooses Landacorp's CareRadius Suite, a Collaborative Health and Care Management Solution

CHICO, Calif., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Landacorp, a Carewise Health affiliate, today announced that its CareRadius Suite has been chosen by SelectHealth, Inc., one of the nation's top-ranked integrated health systems. SelectHealth chose CareRadius for its ability to share information, streamline a common member view, and share electronic health data to better serve diverse populations throughout their integrated health system.

"What drives an ideal solution for SelectHealth is its enabling integration across all of our divisions," said Bob White, CIO, SelectHealth. "We want to bridge information between systems and we believe Landacorp's collaborative care solution, CareRadius, will make this a reality by enabling us to automate and streamline workflows."

The CareRadius suite is a collaborative health and care management solution that connects members, providers, and the health plan to information that allows for health improvement and reduced costs. CareRadius enables health plans to access and share data from various sources through a single platform, increasing efficiency and linkages with EMR, PHR, HIE, patient-centered medical home, and many other data sources. 

SelectHealth is a nonprofit health insurance company, serving members in Utah and Idaho. The company offers commercial insurance products for individuals, families, and employers. SelectHealth also administers Utah's high-risk pool and insures the Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP). SelectHealth is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intermountain Health Care, Inc., an internationally recognized system of hospitals, physicians, clinics and services, and health insurance plans from SelectHealth.

"SelectHealth represents a best case use of CareRadius as physicians, case managers, hospital staff, and especially members, who will now benefit from true collaboration and meaningful communication that is absent far too often in healthcare today," said Jay Dunlap, General Manager, Landacorp. "We are excited to partner with SelectHealth to provide solutions that make their data actionable for health change, streamlined communications, and achieving collaborative care."

About Landacorp, A Carewise Health Affiliate
Landacorp, a Carewise Health Affiliate, has been creating software solutions for health plans and healthcare-delivery organizations for more than 25 years. Proven to perform in the largest user groups, the company's CareRadius Suite automatically identifies the right members for timely and cost-effective intervention; enables highly efficient collaboration among providers, members and health plans; and delivers clinical care tools that improve member health. Visit www.landacorp.com for more information.

About SelectHealth
SelectHealth is a nonprofit health insurance organization serving members in Utah and Idaho, and is committed to health improvement, superior service, and providing access to high-quality care. As a subsidiary of Intermountain Healthcare, SelectHealth is part of one of the nation's top-ranked integrated health systems. SelectHealth is also recognized as Utah's top-ranked health plan, according to NCQA's Private Health Insurance Plan Rankings, 2011-2012. For more information, visit selecthealth.org.

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