Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma and MEDecision to Join Forces for Case Study Presentation at Healthcare IT Summit

LA QUINTA, Calif. & WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Healthcare IT Summit

“Using Technology to Facilitate the Medical Home”

Representatives from MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBSOK) will conduct a case study presentation at the upcoming Healthcare IT Summit in La Quinta, CA, detailing a joint patient-centered medical home project the two organizations are spearheading. MEDecision is a silver sponsor of the conference which takes place November 8–10, 2009 at the La Quinta Resort & Club.

Matt Adamson, vice president of the MEDecision Interoperability Competency Center, and Dr. Joseph Nicholson, chief medical officer at BCBSOK, will present “Using Technology to Facilitate the Medical Home” on Monday, November 9 at 3:00 p.m. and 3:40 p.m. PST. The sessions will analyze the constructs of the pilot program, its current and projected benefits and the obstacles it has overcome to this point. The presentation will particularly focus on the ways in which technology has impacted the project’s progress and how it will affect its future.

What:		“Using Technology to Facilitate the Medical Home” case study presentation
Who:		Matt Adamson, vice president of the MEDecision Interoperability Competency Center, and Dr. Joseph Nicholson, chief medical officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma
Where:		Healthcare IT Summit, La Quinta Resort & Club, La Quinta, CA
When:		Monday, November 9, 3:00 p.m. in the Frank Capra C Board Room, and 3:40 p.m. in the Fiesta 14 Board Room

For information on the Healthcare IT Summit, visit http://everythingchannelevents.com/hc09. 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.

Additional Resources

MEDecision website: www.MEDecision.com
MEDecision on Twitter: @MEDecision
MEDecision Blog: http://www.MEDecision.com/blog
MEDecision press releases: http://www.MEDecision.com/news
MEDecision webinars: http://www.MEDecision.com/webinar

About Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma

Throughout its 69-year history, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma has been committed to meeting the health care financing needs of Oklahomans. As the state’s oldest and largest customer-owned health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma provides health care benefit plans for more than 600,000 Oklahomans. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma is a division of Health Care Service Corporation, which also operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico and Texas. Health Care Service Corporation is a mutual legal reserve company and an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

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 management, disease management 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.

MEDecision is a trademark of MEDecision, Inc. The MEDecision logo and product names are also trademarks or registered trademarks of MEDecision, Inc. Other product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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