MEDecision Webinar Will Demonstrate How Health Plans Can Reduce Administrative Costs through Automated Information Exchange

Nexalign™ iEXCHANGE Enables Payers to Automate up to 80 Percent of Provider Service Requests

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, will conduct a free Webinar to look at the ways health plans can deploy automated health information exchange to reduce administrative costs. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. EDT.

“Reducing Administrative Costs through Health Information Exchange Automation”

The Webinar, “Reducing Administrative Costs through Health Information Exchange Automation,” will feature MEDecision Director of Nexalign™ Strategic Solutions Colleen Dudley and her team members discussing the benefits of automating transactions between health care payers and providers. Among other things, attendees will learn how MEDecision’s Nexalign iEXCHANGE can enable health plans to automate up to 80 percent of provider service requests. Primary topics will include:

• Understanding current provider workflow challenges, particularly the providers’ need to utilize a variety of technical systems to handle different payers’ administrative transactions.
• A market overview of existing electronic solutions and the availability of HIPAA-standard transactions.
• A look at the advantages of Nexalign iEXCHANGE, including the differences between iEXCHANGE and a standard 278 transaction, and how iEXCHANGE facilitates payer/provider communication for the full life cycle of a request.
• Effective targeting and best practices for training and deployment strategies.

What:	Webinar: “Reducing Administrative Costs through Health Information Exchange Automation”
Who:	Colleen Dudley, director of Nexalign strategic solutions at MEDecision, and her team members
When:	Wednesday, May 27, 2009, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time (9:30 a.m. Pacific time)
How:	Register for this free event at http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=137593&s=1&k=443E2AA935E4AFA4C71409ACE6D8A952

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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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