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AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions to Exhibit Deep Business Intelligence Capabilities at RBMA 2013

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AdvantEdge to demonstrate InfoEdgeBI at RBMA 2013 Radiology Summit, building on interest generated at MGMA 2013 Anesthesia Administration Assembly Conference

WARREN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, one of the nation’s leading providers of medical billing, practice management, and coding services for specialty physicians, hospitals, and surgery centers, is demonstrating InfoEdgeBI, a business intelligence platform for medical practices, at the RBMA 2013 Radiology Summit next month. RBMA 2013 offers an opportunity to further expand awareness of InfoEdgeBI’s capabilities, building on attention garnered at the recent MGMA 2013 Anesthesia Administration Assembly (AAA) Conference.

HIPAA-secure InfoEdgeBI gives medical practices and hospitals more in-depth insight into their medical billing and coding information by providing online access to all regular and ad-hoc reports, and a dashboard with charges, cash payments, adjustments, and A/R information. In addition, users have the ability to create custom reports with deep drill-down capabilities to view specific areas of interest at the procedural or payor level with simple point-and-click navigation.

“As the industry faces continued competitive and regulatory pressure, healthcare practices and institutions need actionable data to make effective business decisions,” said David Langsam, President and CEO of AdvantEdge. “Working with our client physicians in anesthesia and radiology practices, we can now identify reimbursement bottlenecks before they become serious. For example, if a site’s volume is off trend, we can instantly drill down to discover the cause—perhaps work from certain physicians is missing. By showcasing InfoEdgeBI at the AAA conference and the Radiology Summit, we’re offering anesthesiologists and radiologists hands-on experience with the efficiencies, clarity, and insight they can gain by using these powerful business intelligence tools.”

AdvantEdge will be exhibiting at the RBMA 2013 Radiology Summit from May 19 to May 22 in Colorado Springs, Colo. at booth #218. It recently exhibited at the MGMA AAA conference from April 14 to April 16 in Miami.

About AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions

AdvantEdge is a technology-enabled provider of healthcare financial management solutions and business intelligence tools that substantially improve decision making, maximize financial performance, streamline operations and eliminate compliance risks for healthcare providers. AdvantEdge continues to gain meaningful scale through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, having completed seven

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athenahealth Selects Mashery to Advance Openness and Innovation in Health Care

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athenahealth Selects Mashery to Advance Openness and Innovation in Health Care

API toolkit will make it easy for developers to create web and mobile apps and improve the way patient care is coordinated, delivered and reimbursed

WATERTOWN, Mass. & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– athenahealth, Inc. (NAS: ATHN) , a leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, today announced the Company is working with Mashery to provide new web-services-based APIs (application programming interfaces) for the health care IT developer community. These new offerings strengthen partner access to athenahealth’s More Disruption Please (MDP) program, an initiative that brings together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, developers, academics, and others who believe in breeding innovation and stoking disruption as a means to overcome the staid and broken processes within health care.

Through its work with Mashery, the world’s leading provider of API management technology and services, athenahealth is unleashing turn-key connectivity to its cloud-based platform of HIT services and to its existing network of about 40,000 providers nationwide. This massive, open API initiative offers innovators an onramp to develop best-of-breed, HIPAA-compliant health care applications that can be easily introduced and integrated within health care provider workflows.

“With Mashery, we are yet again putting a stake in the cloud; we’re lowering the point of entry for the best and brightest across the technology community to plug into our network, to engage our captive audience of tens of thousands of providers, and to innovate on their behalf. Come! Help us disrupt and improve health care,” said Jonathan Bush, CEO and chairman, athenahealth. “athenahealth is building a cloud-based, information backbone—similar to what Amazon.com is for consumers, our platform will serve as a one-stop shop for providers seeking solutions to help them meet clinical and business goals. Unlike traditional HIT vendors that operate in closed silos and are unwilling to connect beyond their existing client base, we are all about openness.”

Kyle Armbrester, director of Business Development and head of More Disruption Please at athenahealth, added: “We are modernizing health care IT in a big way with Mashery by streamlining connectivity to our platform, and allowing the developer community to plug in and innovate. We’re providing the data and knowledge from our cloud-based network, a captive audience for developers to innovate for, and an online sandbox to do it all in. The bottom line is that there’s not enough innovation in health care; by

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Aetna Adds OneHealth® Peer Support Platform to Employee Assistance Program to Help Members Change Be

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Aetna Adds OneHealth ® Peer Support Platform to Employee Assistance Program to Help Members Change Behaviors


–Technology-enabled program engages employees to help reduce health risk factors and lead healthier lives–

HARTFORD, Conn. & SOLANA BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Aetna Employee Assistance Program (EAP) members may now have access to a social networking platform that connects them to peer support and behavior change professionals for help in overcoming chronic behavioral health conditions such as alcoholism, depression or stress. Aetna (NYSE: AET) and OneHealth® Solutions, Inc. announced today that Aetna has licensed the OneHealth platform as a purchase option for their EAP customers.

Aetna Resources for Living, Aetna’s EAP, is a confidential counseling and referral service for employees and their household members. This benefit provides 24/7 access to targeted resources to help employees achieve a more satisfactory work/life balance and to better manage personal and health-related conditions.

“We partnered with OneHealth because of their peer-centered approach to condition management,” said Hyong Un, M.D., chief psychiatric officer and head of Resources for Living for Aetna Behavioral Health. “Employees need relationships and safe connections to make sustained changes to behavior.”

OneHealth’s secure, HIPAA-compliant online and mobile platform gives Aetna EAP members access to integrated, condition-specific social health communities that offer emotional check-ins, evidence-based tools and game mechanics to help them manage their own care and sustain positive behavior change.

OneHealth’s Social Solutioning® platform provides support for a wide range of chronic behavioral and medical conditions, including alcohol addiction, tobacco cessation, depression, stress reduction, diabetes, obesity, respiratory conditions and caregiver/family support for addiction-related disorders, co-dependency and autism.

“Aetna is providing innovative, high-quality health care tools for its EAP members to help reduce health risk factors that contribute to medical spending,” said Bruce Springer, CEO of OneHealth. “We are proud to play an integral role in helping employees enhance long-term health outcomes for one of the largest EAP programs in the U.S.”

OneHealth conducted a pilot with members participating in Aetna’s Alcohol Disease Management and Intensive Care Management programs who had recently completed detox or addiction treatment. Data from the pilot indicated that 81 percent of members who visited the program’s website enrolled. Of the enrolled members, 76 percent showed consistent engagement by returning to the website two or more times.

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Gold Mobile and Assurance Wireless Deliver First Secure HIPAA-Compliant, Two-Way Messaging Platform

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Gold Mobile and Assurance Wireless Deliver First Secure HIPAA-Compliant, Two-Way Messaging Platform for Medicaid and Low-Income Patients…and It’s Free

Collaboration Delivers Secure Mobile Free-To-End-User [FTEU] Patient Engagement Platform for Communicating Patient Health Information [PHI] Data

WARREN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Assurance Wireless, a federal Lifeline Assistance program for wireless phone service, has teamed up with Gold Mobile (GoMo Health), a leading mobile Healthcare Solutions Provider (HSP), to deliver a unique (patent pending) service to improve provider/patient communications.

Assurance Wireless provides a free phone, 250 free voice minutes and 250 free text messages to low-income eligible consumers in more than 40 states. Gold Mobile provides a secure, HIPAA-compliant mobile patient/member engagement and communications service called GoMo Chat Secure™. Together, these services are providing a platform to empower health care insurers, HMOs and health care systems to deliver and manage two-way secure messages to all member patients. This is a free service to Assurance Wireless customers.

GoMo Chat Secure™ delivers secure (encrypted) text-based messages that are viewable using the Assurance Wireless mobile phone’s native browser, so there are no character count restrictions or the need to download and maintain OS-specific mobile applications. Because the solution is integrated into a specially provisioned Free-to-End-User (FTEU) short code, there are no charges to those members who participate in the Assurance Wireless Lifeline Assistance program.

GoMo Chat Secure™ now enables health care organizations to communicate PHI (Patient Health Information) – related messages to members and patients in a fully secure, HIPAA and 21 CFR part 11 compliant manner.

“This is a true game-changer for remote patient care and the health care industry in general because of the need and benefit in communicating PHI information to patients in-the-moment, when and where they need it,” stated Alan Stern, vice president of Healthcare Solutions for Gold Mobile.

With GoMo Chat Secure™, a feature of the GoMo Health platform, health plans, systems and providers can now deploy a wide array of mobile health care communications programs to improve quality of care, especially for high-risk and recently discharged members and patients. This innovative approach delivers secure one-way, two-way text chat and voice communications – configured completely by the Health Care Insurer Administrators for both Lifeline and member phones and devices.

Assurance Wireless is supported by the federal Universal Service Fund, which requires application for eligibility and offers a worry-free way to stay in touch with prospective and current employers, school …read more
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Humana Achieves CAQH CORE Phase II Certification

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Humana Achieves CAQH CORE Phase II Certification

Certification Reflective of Company’s Effort to Enhance Healthcare Administrative Data Exchange and Interoperability

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Humana Inc. (NYS: HUM) , one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, announced today that it has achieved The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH®) Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE®) Phase II Certification.

CAQH, a nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations, launched CORE to give providers consistent access to patient coverage information before or at the time of service using the electronic system of their choice for any patient or health plan, effectively reducing administrative burdens and costs.

Humana was awarded the CORE Seal after successfully completing CORE certification testing, a process that ensures that health care organizations can electronically exchange or access patient insurance information according to the CORE rules.

“The seamless sharing of data at the point of care is one way primary care providers can deliver a better health care experience to their patients,” said Brian LeClaire, Senior Vice President and Chief Service & Information Officer, Humana. “Humana’s CORE Phase II Certification reflects our commitment to enable providers, who are electronically connected to us, to provide that better experience to their patients.”

The CORE Phase II rules are advancing the way the health care industry communicates and are increasing interoperability, which will help to fulfill the priorities of the national health IT agenda. These rules, which build upon national standards, including HIPAA, make electronic administrative data communications increasingly seamless, streamlined and predictable, regardless of technology. The CORE rules are being implemented to eliminate the need for time-consuming, costly phone calls and paperwork by physicians and their office staff, freeing up time to focus on patient care.

The CORE rules were developed by over 115 participating organizations, representing providers, vendors, health plans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state and federal government agencies, associations, standard-setting organizations and other healthcare organizations.


About Humana

Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is a leading health-care company that offers a wide range of insurance products and health and wellness services that incorporate an integrated …read more
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SecureCare Reinvents Faxing with Sfax v3

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SecureCare Reinvents Faxing with Sfax v3

Updated cloud faxing product provides HIPAA-compliance, increased control and functionality for healthcare organizations

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– SecureCare, an Austin-based company that makes documents work through digital access, process and storage management, released a new version of Sfax – its secure, cloud-based faxing solution. Sfax v3 maintains the essential benefits that keep faxing relevant but removes the pain associated with manual faxing by bringing it to the cloud. Healthcare organizations rely on fax for business-critical documents – Sfax v3 is faster, more efficient and offers easier workflow management for groups.

“People say ‘fax’ like it’s a dirty word, but really, faxing is just misunderstood. Faxing is universal and ubiquitous with inherent security and an audit trail. It unites companies large and small – from sophisticated cities to remote areas. Unquestionably, the manual aspect, though, sucks. Our top priority in developing the latest version of Sfax was to change the way people think about faxing,” said Aleks Szymanski, CEO, SecureCare. “We have spent two years listening to our customers, understanding their pain points and challenges in meeting compliance requirements and have developed a product that helps get their job done.”

Sfax v3 brings new tools to make working within faxes easier and faster, allowing users to split faxes, rotate pages, annotate and quickly sign documents digitally. Added Szymanski, “Sfax is faxing reinvented.”

SecureCare’s customer-based research led to new features, including:

  • Administrators have increased control to manage users, set their access and permissions, adjust security settings and generate reports for maximum efficiency.
  • Annotations (text, rectangles, circles, check marks, crosses) and legal digital signatures that meet government requirements – just drag on the page and edit.
  • Unlike manual faxing or fax servers, Sfax enables users to send and receive unlimited faxes at the same time.
  • Manage your contacts into groups and share them across your organization or keep to yourself. Find contacts with a powerful search, plus easily import and export to synch data.
  • Enable groups to work together, collaborate, view, file, send or export documents from any location. Changes made to documents are reflected for the entire group.
  • Enhanced search and filtering with custom folders make organizing, finding and filing documents easier than ever.

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Amcom Software Links Updated Solutions for Improved Physician and Nurse Communications

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Amcom Software Links Updated Solutions for Improved Physician and Nurse Communications

  • New, tighter integration features strong escalation capabilities—a key request from hospital customers
  • Combined solution lets hospitals better manage mobile workflows and set provider communication preferences

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Amcom Software, Inc. today announced exciting enhancements to the integration between its secure texting and preference-based routing solutions. Amcom Mobile Connect® supports easy, secure, HIPAA-compliant text messaging, while Amcom Care Connect helps caregivers connect quickly based on their own schedules and preferences on how to be reached. Together, these solutions give physicians and nurses the flexibility to talk or text, incorporating critical escalation features if a caregiver is unavailable.

The Amcom Mobile Connect 3.3 release boasts a new chat view screen and updates that make it easier for caregivers to locate and connect with one another. This release also meets requests from hospital customers to strengthen the link between these products. Sometimes hospitals coordinate care best with secure texting. Other times physicians need to speak directly. This solution combination enables both.

The following example illustrates the integration:

Doctor One calls Amcom Care Connect to request a consult with Doctor Two. The call goes to Doctor Two’s smartphone via Amcom Mobile Connect as a secure text message, per her established preferences. Doctor Two cannot take the call, so the system escalates the message to the next-available doctor. He immediately speaks with Doctor One to discuss the patient’s situation.

“Healthcare continues to focus on improving patient care while keeping an eye on caregiver efficiency,” said Colin Balmforth, President, Amcom Software. “We are proud to further our development of Amcom Care Connect and Amcom Mobile Connect to meet these healthcare goals.”

About Amcom Software

Amcom Software, a subsidiary of USA Mobility, Inc. (NAS: USMO) , connects people to each other and to the data they need. This helps organizations save lives with communications that are faster, more accurate, and more efficient. Thousands of organizations worldwide rely on Amcom solutions for critical smartphone communications, contact center optimization, emergency management, and clinical workflow improvement. The company’s products are used by leading organizations in healthcare, hospitality, education, business, and government. By continually developing its industry-leading technologies, Amcom Software has steadily grown and solidified its …read more
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