MEDecision and Medem Collaborate to Deliver Robust Electronic Health Record to Improve Patient Care.Payer-Provider Strategy to be Highlighted in HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Demonstration Project Showing Integration of MEDecision's Patient Clinical Summary with Medem's iHealthRecord WAYNE, Pa. & SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- MEDecision, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MEDE Mede n. A member of an Iranian people, closely related to the Persians, inhabiting ancient Media. [Ultimately from Greek M ), a provider of software, services and clinical content to healthcare payers, and Medem, Inc., a leading provider of online physician-patient communications services, today announced a unique collaboration to combine health plan information with the physician-patient relationship physician-patient relationship Medical malpractice A formal or inferred relationship between a physician and a Pt, which is established once the physician assumes or undertakes the medical care or treatment of a Pt; the establishment of a PPR is 'automatic' in to deliver a transportable personal health record through a payer-provider partnership. Through this collaboration, MEDecision will deliver its Patient Clinical Summary, a payer-based, clinically-validated, electronic health record, to patients and their providers through iHealth, Medem's secure, interactive and fully transportable online personal health record. Representatives will demonstrate this technical integration in MEDecision's booth #2731 throughout the HIMSS07 (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Founded in 1961, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a healthcare industry membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of medical informatics technology and management systems. ) Annual Conference and Exhibition, February 25 - March 1, 2007 in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Louisiana. "By combining our resources, MEDecision and Medem have created a way for each of the key stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. in the healthcare process to work together to improve care," said MEDecision Founder 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. David St.Clair. "Essentially, it's a means for payers to support and enhance the physician-patient relationship by delivering detailed patient information to the point of care. This is precisely the type of collaboration we believe is necessary to meet the universal goals of improving medical outcomes and lowering healthcare costs." Medem CEO Edward Fotsch, M.D., a member of Health Level Seven (HL7), a healthcare Standards Developing Organization, and several other personal health record committees, added, "The physician-patient relationship has proven to be the key to success in real utilization of personal health records. In our experience, physicians are considerably more successful in actually engaging patients online with personal health records. Combining physician access and credibility with patients and health plan information is the winning strategy that delivers real patient engagement online. With MEDecision, we will promote physician-patient interactions to facilitate a progressive collaboration between payers and providers to benefit patients at the point of care." The MEDecision/Medem collaboration can positively impact each healthcare constituency in different ways: * For physicians, hospitals, clinics and other providers, it can result in improved practice marketing, efficiency and documentation; fulfillment of pay-for-performance requirements; and a higher level of patient care. * For payers, the affiliation can result in enhanced member engagement through partnership with providers; the delivery of patient education and care management messages through the physician-patient relationship; and the ability to drive more member traffic to online member portals. * Patients can benefit through online secure email communication with their doctor; transportable and accurate personal health records for their families delivered through a partnership between their doctor and their health plan; and an end to medical clipboards and phone tag with providers. For MEDecision, the collaboration with Medem represents a larger overall initiative announced earlier this month to drive greater adoption of health information exchange between patients, payers and providers. MEDecision recently announced that it has established the Interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. Competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like. 2. Center, an organization chartered with facilitating an open technology platform for the exchange of health information, and the Center for Collaborative Health, a group that will address workflow process requirements to ensure patient information is fully utilized by providers at the point of care. Medem's iHealth is currently used by tens of thousands of physicians for online personal health records, physician-patient communication and elimination of the registration clipboard A reserved section of memory that is used as a temporary holding area for data that is copied or moved from one application to another using the copy and paste and cut and paste (move) menu options. Each time you transfer something into the clipboard, the previous contents are deleted. . Patients automatically create an iHealthRecord by registering online for their next doctor's appointment. Patients and providers using iHealthRecord will now have customized and transportable access to a Patient Clinical Summary from MEDecision, which offers a common patient view of historical and current medical information from doctors, labs, pharmacies and other provider organizations. For more information about MEDecision, please visit www.MEDecision.com. For more information about Medem, please visit www.Medem.com. About Medem, Inc. Based in San Francisco and incorporated in 1999, Medem was founded by the American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. and several national medical specialty medical specialty Any specialty that provides non-interventional Pt management, ie with drugs, or with minimum intervention–eg, balloon catheterization Examples Internal medicine–allergy and immunology, cardiology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, societies to develop and provide secure, online communications services for use by physicians and other healthcare providers, including hospitals, health systems, etc., with their patients. Together with a broad constituent of industry partners, medical societies, patient advocacy Patient advocacy refers to speaking on behalf of a patient in order to protect their rights and help them obtain needed information and services. The role of patient advocate is frequently assumed by nurses, social workers, and other healthcare providers. groups and government agencies, Medem is uniquely positioned to transform the healthcare delivery experience for physicians and their patients. Tens of thousands of physician practices, along with numerous health systems, hospitals, payers and employers, have implemented iHealth Services to improve consumer engagement, advance disease management, increase efficiency and decrease costs. iHealth Services provides the connectivity between community and regional stakeholders in healthcare which will fulfill the vision of interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. health records for all Americans by 2014. About MEDecision Founded in 1988, MEDecision provides healthcare 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' healthcare. 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. 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