MEDecision Webinar Will Examine the Advantages of Real-time, Actionable EHRs in Meeting President Obama’s Health IT Challenge

Session to Focus on the Advanced Capabilities of Nexalign™ Technology

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, will host a Webinar to discuss how actionable, real-time clinical information can enable the health IT industry to meet President Obama’s challenge of creating electronic health records by 2014.

The Webinar will be held on Wednesday, April 22 at 12:30 p.m. EDT and will feature MEDecision’s President and Chief Operating Officer Scott Storrer and Senior Director of Product Marketing Robyn Fritz. They will discuss advances to MEDecision’s Nexalign™ health information exchange technology that enable the product to create and deliver actionable, real-time intelligence to virtually any health IT delivery medium (PHRs, EMRs, practice management systems, etc.). Viewers will learn how Nexalign gathers patient data from multiple sources and then applies a clinical intelligence process to identify gaps in care and create treatment plans and clinical summaries. Other specific topics will include:

• An analysis of how MEDecision technology, partnerships and acquired resources enable Nexalign to deliver the most advanced data available for EHR development.
• How the platform-agnostic Nexalign enables the intelligent exchange of clinical data and supports meaningful use of an EHR as referenced in the American Recovery and Reimbursement Act of 2009.
• How Nexalign fulfills the vision of a more collaborative health care environment.
• Why partnerships and collaboration are imperative to the advancement of health care.

What:	A Webinar examining the advantages of actionable, real-time EHRs in meeting President Obama’s Health IT challenge
Who:	MEDecision’s President and Chief Operating Officer Scott Storrer and Senior Director of Product Marketing Robyn Fritz
When:	Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time (9:30 a.m. Pacific time)
How:	To register for this free event, please visit www.medecision.com/webinar.

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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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