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At Accretive Health, our mission is to help our healthcare clients strengthen their financial stability and deliver better care at a more affordable cost to the communities they serve, increasing healthcare access for all. For more information, visit www.accretivehealth.com.
Delivering quality patient care is your number one priority. To ensure you always have adequate resources to fulfill your mission, you need to simplify paperwork processes, better manage technology assets, and more easily track and report regulatory compliance.
Xerox document specialists can help improve the employee experience so your staff can keep their focus on providing quality health care. After assessing your facility's document needs, capabilities, and processes, we provide solutions to streamline document production and flow, ensure regulatory compliance, and achieve operational excellence.
Today's healthcare issues call for more than off-the-shelf quick fixes or a technological silver bullet. You need advanced healthcare outsourcing solutions focusing on:
- Financial performance
- Operations improvement
- Technology deployment
- Ongoing support and education
- Resource allocation.
At Xerox, our experienced healthcare team understands industry needs and issues. They also have in-depth knowledge of healthcare outsourcing and software solutions. Count on them to help your organization improve performance and enhance care delivery.
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Listen as Xerox Health Care VP Valerie Mason Cunningham discusses how Xerox's services, solutions, and technologies help health care providers transform their business. Audio: Document management for health care
By actively connecting diagnostics and health management solutions, Alere gives individuals the tests, tools and information theyneed to make more informed healthcare choices. We offer the industry's most complete range of Wellness, Care Management,Case Management and Women's & Children's Health solutions. Alere provides services that are designed for the entire lifespanfrom pre-cradle (high-risk pregnancy and NICU management), the continuum of health from wellness to prevention (health and productivity programs),chronic care (care management and specialized case management) to end-of-life care (complex case management). Visit www.alere.com.
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American Well™ has created an Online Care platform that allows consumers to connect with physicians immediately, whenever they have a health need -- from their home or office. Online Care utilizes Web-based technologies and telephony to remove traditional barriers to healthcare access, including geography, mobility, time constraints, and insurance coverage.. www.americanwell.com
Bass, Berry & Sims has represented clients including hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and community-based and government-owned hospitals in hundreds of healthcare M&A; transactions. The healthcare industry provides unique challenges in the areas of due diligence and the evaluation of potential risks and liabilities. A keen sensitivity to fraud and abuse issues is mandated. The experience we have developed through the large number of providers, payers and other healthcare-related companies we serve is critical to the representation of our clients in these types of transactions. Representing providers and non-providers in healthcare M&A; transactions requires a thorough understanding of the legal and regulatory constraints affecting the healthcare industry.
Best Doctors provides a powerful benefit for employers that delivers a direct and immediate impact through improved healthcare quality and reduced costs. We help individuals navigate decisions about their healthcare with certainty that they have the right diagnosis and the right treatment. From expert medical consultation services to physician referrals, Best Doctors provides clinical advocacy services to ensure that individuals have the right care at the right time. For 20 years, Best Doctors has helped thousands of people take an informed, active role in their healthcare. Today Best Doctors is the trusted resource for individuals and physicians, serving more than 15 million people in 30 countries.
Booz & Company is a leading global management consulting firm focused on serving and shaping the senior agenda of the world's leading institutions. Drawing on the talents and insights of more than 3,000 people in 58 offices around the world, we help our clients achieve essential advantage by working with them to identify and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform. For more information, please visit www.booz.com.
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
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Covidien is a leading global healthcare products company that creates innovative medical solutions for better patient outcomes and delivers value through clinical leadership and excellence. With 2012 revenue of $11.9 billion, Covidien has 43,000 employees in 70 countries, and its products are sold in over 140 countries. Covidien manufactures, distributes and services a diverse range of industry-leading product lines in two segments: Medical Devices and Medical Supplies
DST Health Solutions helps you optimize your organizational strengths, while reducing costs and improving quality and measurement. With DST as your partner, you can easily and efficiently take advantage of new technology, provide transparency and increased intelligence, and bring new products to market more quickly and effectively. The integrated care-management solutions provide care teams with a 360-degree view of a member, providing retrospective and prospective data to guide the best utilization of benefits and services to help drive improved outcomes. Learn more on how DST is reshaping the healthcare landscape. www.dsthealthsolutions.com
| 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 |
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Health Dialog is a leading provider of healthcare analytics and decision support. The firm is a private, wholly-owned subsidiary of Bupa, a global provider of healthcare services. Health Dialog helps healthcare payors improve healthcare quality while reducing overall costs. Company offerings include health coaching for medical decisions, chronic conditions, and wellness; population analytic solutions; and consulting services. Health Dialog helps individuals participate in their own healthcare decisions, develop more effective relationships with their physicians, and live healthier, happier lives. For more information please visit www.healthdialog.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.
As consumers increasingly migrate online to self-manage their health, more companies are realizing the importance of delivering rich, contextually relevant health information to help their customers make better decisions. Healthline Networks powers intelligent health search, advertising and content services to a growing network of publishers, advertisers, destination sites and health plans. Healthline's medical expertise and technical product portfolio is derived from a consumer healthcare taxonomy that was developed in conjunction with physicians and is maintained today by a team of medical informatics specialists. The taxonomy (or "classification")consists of a terminology database of over one million medical terms and consumer-friendly synonyms, as well as 250,000 medical concepts that include diseases, conditions, causes, symptoms, diagnoses, treatments and other medically relevant attributes. The taxonomy gives unparalleled structure and organization to health-related information by defining and specifying interrelationships and properties, and is why Healthline is the Internet Site Doctors Prescribe Most.® Read more: www.healthlinenetworks.net - Connect to Better Health
Healthstat (www.healthstatinc.com) is a leading provider of on-site primary care, high health risk intervention, disease management and occupational medical care services in employer facilities. Through on-site clinics, preventative care, wellness programs and comprehensive reporting, Healthstat alleviates a corporation's rising cost of health care by improving the health of its employees and dependents. Healthstat currently manages more than 300 clinics nationwide serving over 170,000 participants.
Healthways is a global provider of science-based solutions that improve well-being, enhance business and human performance and reduce overall healthcare costs. Our solutions are designed to help healthy individuals stay healthy, mitigate and slow the progression to disease associated with family or lifestyle risk factors and promote the best possible health for those already affected by disease. We provide highly specific and personalized interventions to millions of people domestically and internationally, surrounding them with tailored support when they are at home, at work, seeking medical care or pursuing health improvement. www.healthways.com
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.
IMS Health is a leading provider of information, services and technology for the healthcare industry. The company draws on its unique combination of sophisticated analytics, objective data and technology platforms to help healthcare clients better understand performance and value. With a presence in 100+ countries and nearly 60 years of experience, IMS serves decision makers within payers, providers, government agencies, researchers, pharmaceuticals and the financial community. www.imshealth.com
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc.
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. (JJHCS) provides contracting, supply chain and business services to customers of Johnson & Johnson companies, including hospital systems and group purchasing organizations, health plans, physicians, specialty pharmacy providers, distributors and wholesalers, pharmacy benefits managers, long-term care providers, employers, government payor programs and government health care institutions.
Kaiser Permanente is recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, our mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We serve approximately 8.9 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. For more information, go to: www.kp.org/newscenter.
Landacorp, A Carewise Health Affiliate, provides care and health management technology and clinical solutions to execute a clear vision for collaborative care. Its' CareRadius Suite provides proven technology to link members, providers and health plans, and clinical care tools to improve health and reduce costs, delivering what health plans need to win in the marketplace. Landacorp has 25 plus years' expertise with the largest health plans and hospital delivery systems in the country.
As a leading global payments company, MasterCard Worldwide prides itself on being at the heart of commerce, helping to make life easier and more efficient for everyone, everywhere. MasterCard serves as a franchisor, processor and advisor to the payments industry, and makes commerce happen by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, governments, businesses, merchants, and cardholders worldwide. Powered by the MasterCard Worldwide Network - the fastest payment processing network in the world - MasterCard processes over 22 billion transactions each year and has the capacity to handle 140 million transactions per hour.
McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to making the business of healthcare run better. We partner with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its customers improve their financial, operational, and clinical performance with solutions that include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management, healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services. For more information, visit http://www.mckesson.com.
Oliver Wyman, an international management consulting firm, combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise to help clients optimize their businesses, improve operations, and accelerate organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman's Health & Life Sciences practice serves clients in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, provider, and payer sectors.
At Optum, we have over 30 years of experience in managing populations, aligning care teams and engaging patients to be active participants in their health. We offer best-in-class analytics and unsurpassed technology capabilities. We use these solutions to improve population health, enhance financial performance, improve quality and, ultimately, increase consumers' satisfaction with the health system.
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Peppers & Rogers Group is a leading management consulting firm recognized as the world's leading authority on customer-based business strategy. We show clients where to focus customer-facing resources to optimize customer experiences, reduce attrition, increase loyalty, create customer advocacy and mitigate risks.
Peppers & Rogers Group's Healthcare Practice serves industry leaders in health insurance, pharmaceutical and healthcare delivery as they face changing dynamics resulting from legislative reform, technology innovation and a social customer landscape. From engaging directly with consumers to applying mobile and social technologies; capitalizing on reform-based opportunities to optimizing the customer lifecycle; Peppers & Rogers Group takes a customer-focused perspective to meet the healthcare industry's top challenges.
Pitney Bowes Healthcare has proven communication management solutions to help healthcare organizations cut costs, increase revenues, and drive patient and plan member engagement. We streamline document creation and delivery processes, facilitate compliance, and enable personalized multichannel communication delivery and analytics to influence patient and member behavior and improve outcomes.
At Silverlink, we get that health and healthcare costs - enormous in both size and significance - are actually the sum of millions of personal decisions. Our mission is to move people in small, healthier ways, the cumulative effect of which saves millions of lives and billions of dollars. To see what makes Silverlink the leader in consumer health engagement, join our session at WHCC. www.silverlink.com
Summa Health System is a large, integrated healthcare delivery system serving Northeast Ohio. Known nationally for excellence in patient care and multi-disciplinary approach to care delivery, Summa includes hospitals, community health centers, a health plan, physician-hospital organization, an entrepreneurial entity, medical education, clinical research, and foundations. Tom Strauss, CEO. www.summahealth.org
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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.
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Today's healthcare consumers expect the right information at the right time through the right channel. Are you delivering? TeleTech helps companies design, build, and implement superior customer experiences that drive growth and profitability. We offer customer-centric solutions, strategic consulting, technology-driven services, revenue generation, customer learning solutions, and enterprise management services.
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.
