MEDecision Conducts Sixth Annual Chief Medical Officer Forum

• Notable assembly of health care payer physician executives, industry thought leaders
• Focus on expanding health plans’ role in the changing health care environment
• Experts to offer opinions on necessary direction and action steps for health plans

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, today is hosting a premier gathering of physician executives from several nationwide health plans, along with a number of other industry leaders, at its sixth annual Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Forum. Themed “Navigating and Transforming the Health Care Environment,” the event is focusing on the ways health care payer organizations can extend their collective role in the changing health care landscape.

“Given the pervasive sense of transformation and reform throughout the health care industry, this year’s CMO Forum is poised to be especially engaging and enlightening”

The day-long CMO Forum unites clinical leaders from throughout MEDecision’s varied customer base with industry experts, innovators and visionaries for a series of interactive presentations and discussions on the successes and challenges associated with optimizing care management performance, along with other significant industry issues. This year’s primary presenters are American College of Physician Executives faculty members Martin Merry, M.D. and Eric Berkowitz, Ph.D. Scheduled topics include the patient-centered medical home and other transformation opportunities; marketing solutions to sustain health plan stability and strength; and improving efficiency, effectiveness and quality in health care, among others.

“Given the pervasive sense of transformation and reform throughout the health care industry, this year’s CMO Forum is poised to be especially engaging and enlightening,” said Andrew P. Schuyler, M.D., chief medical officer and EVP of product marketing and medical services at MEDecision. “We’ve altered the format to allow additional opportunities for exploring the industry’s forthcoming challenges and to enable our attendees to offer suggestions for direction and definitive action. I anticipate some very powerful insights from this particular group.”

As it has in the past, this year’s CMO Forum is being held in conjunction with MEDecision’s annual User Conference. Now in its 15^th year, the week-long event gathers representatives from throughout MEDecision’s customer base for three days of presentations, demonstrations, workshops and seminars designed to help them improve their care management programs through the optimal use of MEDecision’s solutions. The conference will feature keynote addresses from various industry experts focusing on some of health information technology’s most pertinent and emerging issues, particularly the patient-centered medical home, interoperability and collaboration, and the proliferation of electronic health records.

For more information about the MEDecision 2009 User Conference, see http://www.medecision.com/user_conference/Content.aspx.

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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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