NaviMedix Partners with the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center to Raise Physician Awareness About Helping Patients Quit.

NaviNet network provides channel for Center to deliver information and resources about quitting smoking to 190,000 healthcare providers and their patients nationwide

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- NaviMedix, the leader and innovator in automating provider communications with health plans, care management companies and other health industry participants has partnered with the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC), a national initiative that aims to increase smoking cessation rates and increase the number of health professionals who help smokers quit. NaviMedix will work with SCLC to raise awareness about the Center's programs via NaviNet([R]), NaviMedix's Web-based payer-provider communications network that reaches 190,000 physicians and clinicians and their staff across the U.S.

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, creates partnerships with a variety of groups and institutions to develop and implement action plans around smoking cessation. Partnerships with dental hygienists, nurses, pharmacists, emergency physicians, hospitals, labor unions, family physicians, the Veterans Health Administration and myriad other groups all lead toward the same goal: saving lives by increasing cessation rates and cessation interventions. The unique partnership with NaviMedix provides SCLC with access to the largest payer-provider network of its kind in the nation, which the Center expects will significantly increase the influence and success of its programs.

"One of SCLC's most important goals is to increase the number of health professionals who help people quit smoking, and we are confident that our organization's presence on NaviNet and affiliation with NaviMedix will help us do exactly that," said Steven Schroeder, M.D., director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. "NaviMedix's ability to put our messages and resources in front of 190,000 physicians across the country represents a huge boost to our awareness, which is something we are very excited about."

Information and resources for healthcare providers interested in helping patients quit smoking can be found via NaviNet at https://navinet.navimedix.com and via SCLC at http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/.

NaviMedix's NaviNet is the largest provider communications network of its kind, facilitating administrative and clinical interactions with health plans, care management companies and other industry participants. NaviMedix solutions deliver unprecedented transaction volume and value to its health plan partners and other NaviNet sponsors by providing each sponsor with access to a ready-made network of providers already using the Web portal to interact with multiple organizations. Today, 190,000 healthcare providers and 1500 hospitals across the country use NaviMedix's NaviNet solutions and services to collaborate with the nation's leading health plans and healthcare service organizations.

"NaviMedix provides an interactive workflow-based solution to deliver content and transactions that benefit our NaviNet sponsors as well the health professionals who participate in the NaviNet network," said Michael Hodgkins, M.D., chief medical officer at NaviMedix. "The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center is a valuable partner to us because it offers actionable clinical content that is useful to physicians in our network and will ultimately benefit their patients."

About the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) at the University of California, San Francisco, is a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Under the direction of Dr. Steven A. Schroeder and Connie Revell, SCLC works with leaders of various health professions and organizations to promote and support effective treatment and policies to help people quit tobacco use. The Center has over forty partners working towards a shared goal to increase cessation rates and cessation interventions. With generous support from the American Legacy Foundation, the SCLC is now working in the mental health arena. For more information the Center and its partners, please visit http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu or call Catherine Saucedo at 415.502.8880.

About NaviMedix

NaviMedix is the leader and innovator in automating provider communications with health plans, care management companies and other industry participants, enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, improving relationships and optimizing care. NaviMedix offers automated information exchange, technology and services that deliver integrated business and clinical information from multiple health plans and partners directly into the provider office. Today, more than 190,000 healthcare providers and 1500 hospitals across the country use NaviMedix's NaviNet([R]) solutions and services to collaborate with the nation's leading health plans and healthcare service organizations. For more information, please visit www.navimedix.com or call us at 617-715-6000 or 800-805-7569.