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Amisys Synertech Introduces Advanced Care Management Solution; Names Carolann Engler New Vice President of Healthcare Management Technologies and Services.


ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Amisys Synertech Inc. (ASI ASI,
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), the market leader for providing in-depth software products and state-of-the-art outsourcing and claims processing services for healthcare payers, has introduced the ASI Advanced Care Management solution, a uniquely consumer-centric system specifically designed to improve healthcare quality and delivery within today's evolving managed care and consumer-directed healthcare markets. The new system's sophisticated capabilities enable care teams, including patients and their families, social servants, providers and care managers, to collaboratively execute proactive care and optimize resources at all levels of the healthcare system.

To lead this initiative, the company has named Carolann Engler as its Vice President of Healthcare Management Technologies and Services. Ms. Engler brings an extensive breadth and depth of experience to ASI by having worked within the healthcare industry as a consulting professional and healthcare executive for more than 30 years. Her expertise centers on strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.  and critical business and technology re-design within the medical management arena, including utilization, case, disease and population management and clinical data analytics. Engler has Master of General Administration and Bachelor of Science in Nursing The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is a four year academic degree in the science and principles of nursing, granted by a tertiary education university or similarly accredited school.  degrees from the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
  • University of Maryland, College Park, a research-extensive and flagship university; when the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to this school
, and held previous leadership positions with Active Health Management, HCIA HCIA Hungarian Chemical Industry Association
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, GMIS GMIS Government Management Information Sciences (Palmetto Bay, FL)
GMIS Gandhi Memorial International School (Jakarta, Indonesia)
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, Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross.  of Maryland, and First Consulting Group. Most recently, she was a Principal of HealthCare Technology Advisors.

ASI's Advanced Care Management solution is the result of a recently signed agreement with Click4Care, Inc., a Dublin, Ohio-based company focused on improving healthcare through the effective use of information. This agreement has resulted in the seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation.  of ASI's functionally deep AMISYS Advance payer application with Click4Care's ThinkHealth product.

"Our new Advanced Care Management solution offers a broad scope of comprehensive capabilities that enables ASI to deliver innovative care management solutions to traditional managed care organizations, evolving consumer-directed health plans and a wide range of other payer and provider organizations," said Kevin Brown The name Kevin Brown can refer to several different people, including the following:
  • Kevin Brown (baseball) (b. 1965), a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher with 211 career wins
  • Kevin D. Brown (b.
, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of ASI. "The integration of ThinkHealth with AMISYS Advance fully automates the complete spectrum of care management processes, allowing our customers to establish any level of care management operations that best meets their needs and evolve those programs as they see fit."

ThinkHealth is a robust, state-of-the-art system that supports the full range of requirements for care management departments; utilization management activities, sophisticated case, disease and population management, and critical clinical decision support. ThinkHealth accommodates the complexity and variability of real-world medical management and is highly configurable to meet all current and future business operations requirements.

"ThinkHealth empowers medical managers with the critical tools necessary to execute proactive, life-improving care while maximizing ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ," said David Blauer, Click4Care's CEO. "We are excited to partner with an industry-leader like ASI, as the combined power and unmatched depth of our software products has the potential to revolutionize the way medical management is performed today."

About Amisys Synertech Inc. (ASI)

ASI (www.asihealth.com) advances health plan business through its industry-leading products and services. The company delivers comprehensive, mission-critical information management software products and Web capabilities that meet the needs of nearly every healthcare payer model. ASI also provides leading business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in  and application hosting for health plans, supporting a multimillion-member base through its claims processing and consumer-directed services. ASI has offices in Rockville, Md., Harrisburg, Pa., Dubuque, Iowa and Alpharetta, Ga.

About Click4Care

Click4Care (www.click4care.com) builds extraordinary software for healthcare. Click4Care's mission is bigger than selling just one more software license. Our leadership team has given much of themselves to chronically ill friends and family. We know first-hand that healthcare isn't keeping us healthy, that it's better at helping us recover from things that shouldn't have happened. Such personal experiences combined with our unwavering commitment to our guiding principles provided the impetus for founding Click4Care and provide the basis for all of our work and software. Click4Care is based in Dublin, Ohio.
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