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Accretive Health is a leading provider of services to healthcare providers. Our distinctive model delivered through our people, processes and sophisticated integrated technology, helps U.S. hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers efficiently manage their revenue cycle operations and population-based health management. Accretive PAS® offers a comprehensive physician advisory solution for complex patient classification delivered by licensed physicians, payer compliance and revenue preservation. www.accretivehealth.com
AIM Specialty HealthSM (AIM) is a leading specialty benefits management company with more than 20 years of experience and a growing presence in the management of radiology, cardiology, oncology, sleep, and specialty drugs. Our mission is to make healthcare services more clinically appropriate, safer and more affordable. As such, we promote the most appropriate use of specialty care services through the application of widely accepted clinical guidelines delivered via an innovative platform of technologies and services. www.aimspecialtyhealth.com
As the industry's first online direct contracting market, aptitude has innovated the healthcare supply chain environment by creating a more logical and empowered market that provides transparency to both buyer and seller. Simply put, aptitude bridges the relationship between hospitals and suppliers to greatly improve the entire contracting process for all. For more information, please visit www.aptitude.com
aptitude Media Coverage:
- Program facilitates direct contracting
- Scottsdale Healthcare gets aptitude for online buying
- To make hospital supply chains more efficient, aptitude takes direct contracting online
- CONVERGE Startup Showcase: What Health Startups need to succeed
- Building the E-bay of medical devices: A conversation with aptitude's Troy Kirchenbauer
- aptitude launches direct contracting market for medical supplies
BettrLife is a health/wellness technology firm committed to aiding the efforts of organizations to empower consumer lifestyle change. The web platform and mobile application engage consumers through an integrated suite of decision support tools. In addition, BettrLife offers a robust interface for health coaches to manage consumers, members and patients, under their care, through the BettrLife system. With BettrLife, it's possible to facilitate simple, organized change while achieving brand loyalty and consumer preference.
Cerner is transforming health care by eliminating error, variance and waste. Our solutions optimize processes for health care organizations ranging from single-doctor practices to entire countries, for pharmaceutical and medical device industries, and for health care as a whole. Our solutions are licensed by more than 9,000 facilities worldwide.
www.cerner.com
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services.
Consistently ranked among the Healthcare Informatics Top 100 list, our industry-specific technology and tools support our solutions across leading payers, providers, pharmacy benefit managers, and clearinghouses worldwide.
Visit www.cognizant.com or email us at [email protected].
Companion Data Services, a privately-held company, offers secure consulting, development and managed hosting services within the health care industry. CDS' secure data center features specialized physical, data and network security, and disaster recovery capabilities necessary for today's health care data protection requirements. CDS is platform agnostic and can support your unique requirements. CDS and its parent company provide services for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, TRICARE, the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, Medicare Advantage health plans, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, as well as other private health plans. CDS has offices in Columbia, South Carolina, Dallas and Denison, Texas and Baltimore, Maryland. www.CompanionDataServices.com
Cubist Pharmaceuticals is a public, biopharmaceutical company (NASDAQ: CBST) focused on the research, development and commercialization of products that address significant unmet medical needs in the acute care environment
Founded in 1992, company headquartered in Lexington, MA, currently employs ~ 700 people
Recognized as a top-performing company: The Boston Globe's Top Places To Work, Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies and Deloitte Technology Fast 500
Philanthropic efforts focused on supporting STEM education
| Eliza Corporation is the leader in innovative, effective healthcare communications. Our integrated, multimedia programs - powered by our patented phone-based speech recognition technology, proven communication methodologies, and sophisticated data analytics - drive healthier behavior and yield financial savings. Clients include leading health plans, DM companies, PBMs, pharmaceutical companies, and employers. www.elizacorp.com |
hCentive is a provider of cloud-based technology that helps consumers connect, communicate and engage in acquiring health insurance benefits. Its suite of WebInsure solutions allows health plans, state and federal health agencies to set up marketplaces/exchanges for the acquisition, management, distribution and compliance of health insurance plans. With a commitment to customer success and execution excellence, hCentive offers a single point of accountability that health insurance organizations demand.
hCentive is the industry leader in building state health insurance exchanges and has leveraged that expertise in building our WebInsure products. Our solutions include:
- Our exchange connectivity solution, WebInsure Exchange Manager, is our high demand solution for health plans looking to connect with multiple state and federal health insurance exchanges.
- WebInsure State helps states create a health benefits exchange to comply with ACA requirements.
- WebInsure Private Exchange, WebInsure Consumer, WebInsure Group, and WebInsure Medicare, which help health insurers cost effectively acquire and manage individual, group and Medicare customers.
Health to You (H2U), a subsidiary of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), offers a full range of health improvement solutions for employers, including worksite clinics and wellness programs. H2U is uniquely positioned to redefine the health care experience by improving health status of individuals and delivering sustainable cost savings to its clients. www.healthtoyou.com
PayFlex® is leading the way in technology and innovation in account-based benefits administration. HealthHub®, powered by PayFlex®, provides solutions that educate, engage and empower employees to improve their health and financial wellbeing. Incentive-based wellness programs integrated with account-based health administration sets PayFlex® apart in the consumer-directed marketplace.
IBM has over 70 years of experience and expertise in helping healthcare organizations. IBM solves the toughest industry problems by applying consulting, technology expertise, healthcare industry knowledge and best practices from other industries. IBM strives to help clients apply advanced analytics to improve patient care and help reduce costs. www.ibm.com/healthcare
As the leading nationwide provider of Implantable Device Benefit Management (DBM) solutions, IPG delivers increased transparency and reduced costs through sustainable partnerships with health plans, manufacturers, providers, physicians and patients. We offer solutions that influence quality, utilization, and site of care, providing patient access to better, more affordable care while effectively driving operational accuracies and lowering implant device spend.
Many of the world's largest health plans in the country depend on Infogix to transform and safeguard their operations. Through the use of Infogix solutions, health plans are able to improve their operations by identifying areas of concern in their processes and applying strategically placed controls and data reconciliations with accompanying dashboards to manage key business functions. The Infogix Exchange Revenue Assurance solution is designed to allow health plans to prosper in the new marketplace environment by providing a framework for profitability, compliance and member satisfaction. Since 1982, Infogix has been providing Infogix Controls Solutions to Global 2000 enterprises. Millions of Infogix Controls continuously monitor and assure the integrity of information in hundreds of enterprises each day.
To empower healthcare organizations today to improve quality and efficiency of care, data driven insights need to be delivered to physicians at the point of care and other users responsible for population management. Intelligent Healthcare (IHC) has been an innovator for over a decade in providing clinical data integration and analytics for large health systems and physician groups. Our "software as service" model (SaaS) offers physicians, ACO's and other clinically integrated organizations a powerful, user-friendly approach to tackling the complexities of data management to improve the quality and efficiency of the care that they deliver. These services include pre-populated disease and preventive care registries, cost and utilization analysis, physician scorecards, benchmarks, and risk analysis. IHC takes full responsibility for aggregating patient care data from multiple, diverse sources and integrating that data around unique patients and events.
At Isis, we love babies and the people who come with them. We are committed to providing innovative programs and a highly edited selection of products for expecting and new parents…all under one roof. We nurture a thriving community of families who learn as much about the transition to parenthood from each other as they do from the experts on our team. Isis makes navigating childbirth and parenting easier, less stressful and more joyful. www.isisparenting.com
Through a unique combination of information technologies and specialized services, Lumeris assists managed care plans, hospitals and physician organizations in moving from a world of volume-driven encounters to value-oriented care. This successful company is an ideal partner for those organizations seeking a more integrated and coordinated approach to containing costs and improving quality.
MedSolutions is a medical cost management company that generates cost savings by improving the quality of patient care and outcomes. MedSolutions' innovative solutions extend beyond Radiology Management to other areas of medical specialty, including Post-Acute Care, Radiation Therapy, Cardiac Imaging, Sleep Management, Ultrasound, Lumbar Spine Surgery, and Cardiac Rhythm Devices (CRD).
For more than three decades, Optum has led the health care industry with best-in-class population health management, analytics, clinical and financial services and innovative technology. We realize each health system and provider group has a unique set of challenges, and we help them adapt and thrive in the continuously evolving health care landscape of increased pressure and decreased revenue.
Our breadth of expertise and experience in the market enables us to provide a comprehensive solution, yet our nimble, client-centric approach means we also offer individual programs and services. We meet clients where they are today and invite them to join us in making the health care system work better for everyone. Find out more at www.optum.com/ACO.
PwC's Deals practitioners help corporate and private equity executives navigate transactions to maximize value and returns. In today's increasingly daunting economic and regulatory environment, experienced M&A specialists assist clients on a range of transactions from smaller and mid-sized deals to the most complex transactions, including domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs, capital events such as IPOs and debt offerings, and bankruptcies and other business reorganizations. First we help clients with strategic planning around their growth and investment agendas and then advise on the business-wide risks and value drivers in their transactions for more empowered negotiations, decision making and execution. Clients can then expedite their deals, minimize their risks, capture and deliver value to their stakeholders, and quickly return to business as usual.
Our local and global deal strength is derived from over 1,400 deal professionals in 21 cities in the US and over 9,800 deal professionals across a global network of firms in 75 countries. In addition, our network firm PwC Corporate Finance can provide investment banking services within the US. For more info about our M&A capabilities, please visit www.pwc.com/us/deals.
Sg2's analytics-based health care expertise helps hospitals and health systems integrate, prioritize and drive growth and performance across the continuum of care. Over 1,400 individual organizations around the world rely on Sg2's analytics, intelligence, consulting and educational services.
As the leader in healthcare communications, our mission is to help health plans move their members in small, healthier ways - the cumulative effect of which can save millions of lives and billions of dollars. Our communications programs engage, educate and empower members to make better health decisions. www.silverlink.com
Target Corporation is a discount retailer that provides on-trend merchandise at attractive prices in 1,782 stores nationwide and online at Target.com. Through its more than 1,600 pharmacies and 54 retail clinics, Target® brings health and care together and makes both more accessible. More human. More Target. Here, simplicity meets convenience with good-for-you products and in-the-know advice. For more information, please visit https://health.target.com.
TriZetto's healthcare software and services drive administrative efficiency, improve the cost and quality of care, and increase payer-provider collaboration and connectivity. Payer offerings include enterprise and component software, and application hosting, BPO and consulting services. Provider offerings, delivered by Gateway EDI, detect and fix claims issues proactively. For information, visit www.trizetto.com.
We know that VHA members are dealing with heightened pressure to deliver results in the midst of rising costs, increasing uncompensated care, nursing shortages and an economic crisis. Sustainable results come from strategic relationships that you have built with, and within, VHA. Through us, you can connect with peers, share insights, leverage resources and take advantage of innovative solutions - all to lower costs, advance operational performance and enhance patient care.
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