CorSolutions Launches Breakthrough Clinical Outcomes-Driven Platform; CorConnect Gives Customers More Personalized Service and Increased Efficiency.Business Editors & Technology Writers BUFFALO GROVE Buffalo Grove A village of northeast Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Population: 43,300. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2001 CorSolutions Medical, Inc., the nation's leading provider of proactive chronic care management solutions, announced the launch of CorConnect, the third generation of its proprietary clinical operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . CorConnect advances CorSolutions' capabilities by reacting to participant input with advanced and tailored responses. In addition, CorConnect's compatibility with other operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. equates to lower costs and added efficiency for customers, as well as individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize tr.v. in·di·vid·u·al·ized, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·ing, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·es 1. To give individuality to. 2. To consider or treat individually; particularize. 3. , smart solutions for participants. "CorConnect will transform the disease management industry by allowing customers to view real-time details of every interaction our company has had with participants and their physicians," said R. Thomas Brady, Chief Information Officer for CorSolutions. "This approach breaks the mold of the standard, one-way communication between a disease management company and its customers." CorSolutions designed CorConnect with its customer in mind by combining the disease management knowledge it has accumulated during the past nine years with direction from its disease managers and account managers -- the people in daily contact with customers and participants. The result is a flexible operating system that is an enabler of information, not merely a provider. With 297,000 lives, CorConnect allows participants to determine the manner in which the CorSolutions' disease managers at its call centers go about providing communication and education. This process guarantees appropriate levels and methods of participant interaction. Communication channels between CorSolutions and payors or participants include: telephone, U.S. mail, e-mail, or cell phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants). Customers now receive the benefits of CorSolutions' health intelligence anytime, anywhere and in the manner in which they have dictated. The upgraded operating system also encourages greater compliance with medical treatments prescribed pre·scribe v. pre·scribed, pre·scrib·ing, pre·scribes v.tr. 1. To set down as a rule or guide; enjoin. See Synonyms at dictate. 2. To order the use of (a medicine or other treatment). by each participant's primary care physician. This Web-based operating system has advanced branching logic tailored to improve operations and meet participants' needs. Additionally, CorSolutions used Microsoft's SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. , IBM's Websphere, Java and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. to develop a flexible and compatible platform. The company also incorporated multiple security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security to protect patients' private health information. The new generation of CorConnect is an extensible and scalable application that is capable of quickly increasing and extending personal product and service offerings as CorSolutions' customer base continues to grow. About CorSolutions CorSolutions Medical, Inc. is the nation's leading customer-centric health intelligence and solutions company. CorSolutions offers proactive chronic care management services, population-based chronic care management for individuals affected by chronic diseases, including congestive heart failure congestive heart failure, inability of the heart to expel sufficient blood to keep pace with the metabolic demands of the body. In the healthy individual the heart can tolerate large increases of workload for a considerable length of time. , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease n. Abbr. COPD A chronic lung disease, such as asthma or emphysema, in which breathing becomes slowed or forced. , diabetes and asthma. Through telephone consultation, interactive voice response, home visits and the company's interactive patient/member Web site, (www.ecorsolutions.com), CorSolutions' nurses concentrate on stabilizing stabilizing, v to hold a limb motionless in order to ground its energy; a standard isometric resistance technique, it releases tension and lengthens muscle fibers. and improving patients' health and promoting patient satisfaction and quality of life while reducing unnecessary healthcare costs. Using the exclusive MULTIFIT(SM) approach of physician-directed, nurse-mediated, patient-managed care, CorSolutions consistently delivers measurable health improvements and significant cost-savings for its customers. CorSolutions currently has more than 60 contracts representing 40 million commercial and 1.5 million Medicare risk members throughout the country. Based in Buffalo Grove, IL, CorSolutions has grown from $5 million in annual revenues in 1995 to approximately $70 million in 2001. For more information, visit the company's corporate Web site at http://www.corsolutions.com |
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