MEDecision Showcases Meaningful Electronic Health Record (EHR) on Opening Day of HIMSS

• Payer Roundtable Breakfast highlights "Top 5 Things Payers Need to Do Today to Benefit from Health IT Stimulus"
• Playful interactive walls on booth #2015 give attendees fun way to learn about “Actionable Information Changing Health Care”
• MEDecision’s “call to partner” with health IT vendors welcomes flurry of interest in EHR benefits
• Follow MEDecision on Twitter for event highlights

CHICAGO & WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, greeted attendees of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2009 Conference and Exhibition with an interactive booth display to learn about “Actionable Information Changing Health Care” and the benefits of its real-time, meaningful, electronic health records (EHRs) available today.

“The timing couldn’t be more perfect for a health care event like this to encourage collaboration across payers, providers and patients.”

“HIMSS is the perfect storm — the coming together of the Obama Stimulus plan, consumer groundswell, technology advances, and burgeoning vendor enthusiasm to partner,” said MEDecision President and COO Scott A. Storrer. “The timing couldn’t be more perfect for a health care event like this to encourage collaboration across payers, providers and patients.”

What makes MEDecision’s EHR meaningful today? MEDecision aggregates real-time, clinically validated information from payer, provider and patient records into Nexalign™ Clinical Summaries, in which physicians can take immediate action in determining gaps of care and/or treatment plans for patients.

Underscoring the company’s growing momentum in the health care market, MEDecision came to HIMSS in force with 3x the staff and 4x the booth size of 2008. Following its sponsorship of the Payer Symposium on Saturday at HIMSS, the company is the sole sponsor of this morning’s Payer Roundtable Breakfast, a “wisdom of the crowds” gathering to determine the “Top 5 Things Payers Need to Do Today to Benefit from Health IT Stimulus.”

News highlights at HIMSS include:

• MEDecision signed a letter of intent to acquire HxTechnologies, Inc. (HxTI). The transaction will allow MEDecision to embed HxTI’s extensive set of health information exchange technologies into its Alineo™ collaborative health care management platform and Nexalign advanced health information exchange service. See http://tinyurl.com/cpkfur.
• MEDecision issued a “call to partner” with health IT vendors, encouraging them to leverage the company’s 20 years of expertise and EHR leadership into their own technology offerings, rather than reinvent the wheel by building in-house solutions, and hasten their efforts to meet Obama’s five-year deadline for automating America’s health records. See http://tinyurl.com/c36h6z.
• MEDecision announced its real-time, actionable EHRs generated by Nexalign to meet President Obama’s $19 billion health care IT challenge. See http://tinyurl.com/c8q3sh.

MEDecision will continue to promote the use of its real-time, actionable EHRs with a Webinar on Wednesday, April 22 at 12:30 p.m. ET, featuring Storrer and Robyn Fritz, the company’s senior director of product marketing. The company will discuss advances to Nexalign that enable the product to create and deliver advanced clinical intelligence to virtually any health IT delivery medium (PHRs, EMRs, practice management systems, etc.). For more information about the webinar and to register, please visit http://www.medecision.com/webinar.

MEDecision 2009 User Conference will be held May 6-8 in Philadelphia. See http://www.medecision.com/user_conference/Content.aspx.

For more information about MEDecision, please visit www.MEDecision.com and subscribe to an RSS feed at http://www.MEDecision.com/blog/. Follow the company on Twitter at MEDecision.

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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