MEDecision’s Alineo™ Collaborative Health Care Platform Deployed at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

State-of-the-Art Technology Enables Insurer to Enhance Wellness, Quality and Prevention Initiatives for 1.4 Million Members

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, today announced that its Alineo™ collaborative health care management platform was successfully deployed by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBSMN). The insurer implemented the technology to streamline care management efforts for about 1.4 million of its members.

“Alineo is the technical resource we need to execute this approach. It gives us state-of-the-art technology, yet it is simple to use and understand, and its flexibility will enable it to grow and adapt as our member and customer needs change going forward.”

BCBSMN is primarily utilizing Alineo to facilitate Whole Person Health Support, a recently launched initiative that identifies opportunities to improve members’ health status and reduce health care costs by assessing such factors as known gaps in care, the member’s ability to work more closely with their provider and the member’s likelihood to engage in interventions. Alineo provides BCBSMN with a platform that supports their strengthened case and disease management capabilities necessary for the new Whole Person Health Support model.

“We believe strongly in an integrated approach to serving our members’ health needs across a spectrum of care from prevention to end of life,” said Lori Hough, vice president of consumer health, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. “Alineo is the technical resource we need to execute this approach. It gives us state-of-the-art technology, yet it is simple to use and understand, and its flexibility will enable it to grow and adapt as our member and customer needs change going forward.”

Through an innovative member-centric approach, Alineo addresses case management, disease management and utilization management by analyzing, applying and automating payer-driven best practices. Alineo enables health plans to streamline operational efficiencies, reduce waste and increase care quality by helping them enhance business agility, control costs and optimally manage risk and compliance.

“Alineo offers some of the most advanced care management technology currently available, which makes it the ideal resource for the Whole Person Health Support initiative,” said MEDecision Founder and CEO David St.Clair. “We’re very pleased to be working with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and excited that Alineo is being used to execute a very innovative health management model.”

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About Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, with headquarters in the St. Paul suburb of Eagan, was chartered in 1933 as Minnesota’s first health plan and continues to carry out its charter mission today: to promote a wider, more economical and timely availability of health services for the people of Minnesota. A nonprofit, taxable organization, Blue Cross is the largest health plan based in Minnesota. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, headquartered in Chicago. For more information, please visit www.bluecrossmn.com.

About MEDecision

MEDecision offers collaborative health care management solutions that provide a simplified and smart way to manage the health of members and member populations which can improve the quality and affordability of care. Based on state-of-the-art technology, MEDecision's solutions include Alineo™, a collaborative health care management platform for managing case, disease and utilization management and Nexalign™, a collaborative health care information exchange service. MEDecision believes that, in the aggregate, its health care payer customers insure or manage care for approximately one in every six people in the U.S. with health insurance. For more information, please visit www.MEDecision.com.

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