Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium



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GRANTORS & EXHIBITORS

We thank the following Grantors and Exhibitors for their support in helping to make this conference possible.

GRANTORS
DIAMOND

Humana
Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is a leading health and well-being company focused on making it easy for people to achieve their best health with clinical excellence through coordinated care. The company's strategy integrates care delivery, the member experience, and clinical and consumer insights to encourage engagement, behavior change, proactive clinical outreach and wellness for the millions of people we serve across the country.

More information regarding Humana is available to investors via the Investor Relations page of the company's web site at www.humana.com.

GOLD

Sage Growth Partners
Sage Growth Partners (SGP), a health care strategy, technology and marketing communications firm, provides insight, advice and multi-disciplined execution to growth-minded healthcare organizations, including hospitals, health systems, health centers, physicians groups, insurers, trade associations and academic institutions.

Sage Growth sees a growing focus on population health activities. Based on this demand, SGP has assembled an interdisciplinary team and range of services to help healthcare organizations manage their Population Health initiatives to simultaneously improve costs and quality of care.

With deep roots in the business of health care, SGP has earned a reputation for delivering results to difficult industry and organizational challenges. Founded in 2005, SGP is located in Baltimore, MD, and can be reached at 410.534.1161 or www.sage-growth.com.

SILVER

Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 319,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Accenture Insight Driven Health
Insight driven health is the foundation of more effective, efficient and affordable healthcare. That's why the world's leading healthcare providers and health plans choose Accenture for a wide range of insight driven health services that help them use knowledge in new ways -- from the back office to the doctor's office. Our committed professionals combine real-world experience, business and clinical insights and innovative technologies to deliver the power of insight driven health. For more information, visit: www.accenture.com/insightdrivenhealth.


Hearst Health
The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG and Homecare Homebase, Hearst Health International, Hearst Health Ventures and the Hearst Health Innovation Lab (www.hearsthealth.com). The mission of the Hearst Health network is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person's health journey. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from the Hearst Health network reaches 76 percent of discharged patients, 133 million insured individuals, 20 million home health visits, 1.88 billion retail pharmacy prescriptions and 3.26 billion prescription claims.

FDB - FDB (First Databank) is the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise medication-related decisions. With thousands of customers worldwide and more than three decades of experience, FDB enables our developer partners to deliver a wide range of actionable solutions that improve patient safety and healthcare outcomes.

MCG - Milliman Care Guidelines became MCG in December 2012 as part of the Hearst Corporation acquisition. Now part of the Hearst Health network, MCG independently develops and produces evidence-based clinical guidelines and software used by more than 2,200 clients, including 1,300 hospitals and eight of the ten largest U.S. health plans. Updated annually by an experienced team of clinicians, the care guidelines support the care management of a majority of Americans. For more information, visit www.mcg.com.

Zynx Health - Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, is the pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions that provide the care guidance to enhance quality and decrease variation across an individual's health journey. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com or call 855.367.ZYNX.


Sodexo in North America
Sodexo, Inc., leading Quality of Life services company in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, delivers On-site Services in Corporate, Education, Health Care, Government, and Remote Site segments, as well as Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services. Sodexo, Inc., headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., funds all administrative costs for the Sodexo Foundation, an independent charitable organization that, since its founding in 1999, has made more than $22 million in grants to end childhood hunger in America. Visit the corporate blog at SodexoInsights.com. Visit Sodexo on Facebook and follow on Twitter @SodexoUSA.

BRONZE

Deloitte


Davis Wright Tremaine
Those of us in the Davis Wright Tremaine health care practice group devote nearly all of our time to industry-specific matters. This allows us to develop niche practices within the field that serve needs unique to the health care market. We also understand the business issues and regulatory developments that affect health care delivery and compliance, and as a unified team we can match the attorney with the niche expertise that best addresses client needs. For more information visit our website at www.DWT.com.


Forecast Health
Forecast Health delivers Actionable and Affordable Health Analytics. While there is a widespread recognition of the power of predictive analytics and big data, the benefits and applications of these have been usually restricted to the largest and most advanced health systems. Forecast Health takes the learnings from all these real world projects and delivers to you analytics to select and manage risk that are Actionable and Affordable. Founded by leading practitioners and technologists, and through a strategic partnership with UNC Healthcare, we deliver big data analytics that are readily deployable into your care management and strategic marketing activities. We GUARANTEE: savings through reduction in CMS penalties, increase in MSSP gain sharing, membership growth, or overall reduction in cost of care.

For more information visit www.forecasthealth.com/


Healthy Communities Institute® (HCI)
Healthy Communities Institute® (HCI) provides the leading web-based platform that supports hospitals' population health management and community health improvement initiatives. The HCI web-based tools provide health indicator dashboards, access to nationally recognized promising practices, analytic and reporting tools and other features that enable organizations to:

  • Target at-risk populations
  • Focus resources
  • Build partnerships
  • Launch targeted programs
  • Track and measure progress
  • Comply with regulatory and tax-exempt requirements
  • Efficiently report back to key stakeholders
In use in over 35 states, the platform covers more than 133 million lives across the United States. Headquartered in Berkeley, CA, the company's multi-disciplinary team is comprised of healthcare information technology veterans, academicians, health informatics experts, epidemiologists, urban planners and Internet developers.

For more information visit www.healthycommunitiesinstitute.com/demo


Home Solutions
Home Solutions, one of the largest independent infusion providers in the country, is an industry leader. Our team understands the importance of a positive patient and customer experience. Home Solutions has many years of experience in comprehensive infusion care and nutrition support management and is known for its reliability, customer service, and professional expertise. Home Solutions specializes in providing Anti-Infectives, Parenteral Nutrition, Cardiac Therapies, and Immune therapy for all patients ranging from pediatric to geriatric. Our InfuLink® Clinical programs provide disease-state management solutions for chronic care populations that help improve clinical outcomes while provide care in the least-cost setting, the home.

For more information visit http://www.infusioncare.com/


Lumeris
Lumeris is a pioneer in population health management solutions. Through our operations, technology and consulting services, we enable healthcare organizations to successfully make the journey from volume- to value-based care. We help health systems create Population Health Services Organizations and define populations for risk. We empower providers and their accountable care teams with process improvement strategies, technology tools and clinical workflows to manage their patients and populations effectively. We work collaboratively with payers to ensure the right contracts, measures and incentives are in place to influence physician behavior and drive quality, cost and utilization performance. The depth and breadth of Lumeris' solutions -- combined with its decade of experience in value-based care -- make the company an ideal partner for any healthcare organization seeking to transform its business and care-delivery model and remarkably improve its clinical and financial outcomes. For more information, call 1.888.586.3747 or visit Lumeris.com.


Philips Healthcare
Philips Healthcare is dedicated to the future of healthcare and saving lives. We develop innovative solutions across the care continuum in partnership with clinicians and customers to improve patient outcomes, provide better value, and expand access to care.

Philips Hospital to Home delivers telehealth-enabled clinical programs based on Philips leading hardware-software platforms. These clinical programs help improve outcomes and lower costs in the acute and ambulatory settings, enabling health systems to realize population health strategies and prepare for value-based and capitated payments.

To accomplish lasting improvements in outcomes and costs, adoption of technology isn't enough. You must change the way your clinical teams work independently and collectively. Philips works with your organization to transform to take maximum advantage of Philips telehealth-enabled clinical programs. From organizational structure through clinical workflows to performance reporting, Philips helps your team achieve sustained success and maximum ROI from your investment.

Learn more: www.hospitaltohome.philips.com/


Phytel
The premier company empowering physician-led population health improvement, Phytel provides physicians with proven technology to deliver timely, coordinated care to their patients. Phytel's SaaS-based registry uses evidence-based chronic and preventive care protocols to identify and notify patients due for service, while tracking compliance and measuring quality and financial results. The only company to combine care management automation with an advanced patient engagement engine, Phytel has been heralded by KLAS as an "early leader" in population health management, with a "historical lead" in patient engagement capabilities. Phytel is also ISO 9001:2008 certified, confirming adherence to ISO's internationally recognized Total Quality Management (TQM) standards. For more information, please visit www.phytel.com. Follow us on Twitter and find us on Facebook.


About Predilytics
Predilytics is a healthcare information technology company, the first to commercially employ in healthcare the analytic techniques and processes that have demonstrated long-term success in demanding industry sectors like financial services and consumer products. We apply patented, machine-learning analytic tools to transform structured and unstructured client data, along with external data sources, into actionable insights. These insights point the way for healthcare organizations to more deeply understand consumer behavior, optimize and precisely target care delivery, and improve population health. Predilytics was founded in 2011 and is headquartered outside Boston, in Burlington, MA. For more information visit www.predilytics.com.


About PwC's Health Industries Group
PwC's Health Industries Group (www.pwc.com/us/healthindustries) is a leading advisor to public and private organizations across the health industries, including healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals, health and life sciences, payers, employers, academic institutions and non-health organizations with significant presence in the health market. Follow PwC Health Industries at @PwCHealth.


UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization
Drawing on our internal expertise and data and extensive external experiences and partnerships, the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization analyzes key health care issues and develops innovative policies and practical solutions for the health care challenges facing our nation. We share this information in the United States and internationally with policymakers, academicians, researchers, providers, health plans, employers, the public, and other key health care stakeholders. In January 2009, UnitedHealth Group launched the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization to present proven strategies to contain costs and improve quality and care, and today, we continue to demonstrate our commitment to health care modernization by offering solutions based on proven policies and best practices.

For more information: www.unitedhealthgroup.com/modernization


Veritas
Veritas provides the clinical resources and IT services necessary for organizations to succeed in today's value and quality driven healthcare environment. Our flagship service, vSolutions, synergizes the power of big data with a specialized team of interdisciplinary clinical mentors that utilize sophisticated patient engagement tools to create positive patient and organizational outcomes.

For more information, please call (855) 715-6400. You may also visit our website at www.veritasmrs.com.

OTHER GRANTORS

American Well


Christiana Care Health System
Christiana Care Health System is one of the country's largest health care providers, ranking 21st in the nation for hospital admissions. A not-for-profit teaching hospital affiliated with Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Christiana Care is recognized as a regional center for excellence in cardiology, cancer, orthopedics and women's health services.

Christiana Care is home to Delaware's only Level I trauma center, the highest capability center and the only one of its kind between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Christiana Care also features a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, the only delivering hospital in Delaware that offers the highest level of non-surgical care to the most critically ill newborns. Christiana Care includes two hospitals with 1,100 patient beds, a home health care service, preventive medicine, rehabilitation services, and a network of primary care physicians and an extensive range of outpatient services.

With more than 10,000 employees, Christiana Care is the largest private employer in Delaware and the 4th largest employer in the Philadelphia region. In 2013, Christiana Care had more than $1.56 billion in total patient revenue and provided the community with $27 million of free care and medicine. Find more information at www.christianacare.org.


Healthgrades
Healthgrades provides hospitals strategic and scalable growth, engagement and quality solutions. Our CRM, PRM and digital services, including our unique Patient Direct Connect program and multichannel techniques, are enhanced by strategic experts with evidence-based insights. We help hospitals engage consumers and physicians so they can improve outcomes and achieve measurable results. Visit us at www.healthgrades.com/hospitals or call 855.665.9276.


MDAgree
MDAgree is a leading provider of physician-to-physician telemedicine services that combine advanced Internet technology with clinical expertise to achieve meaningful impact in medical education, patient safety, patient/physician experience, health outcomes, and risk mitigation. MDAgree's realization of value is delivered via our unique web-based medical consultation service technology platform, ExpertCONNECT™. Designed to achieve diagnostic and treatment consensus, one or more physician experts, having remotely reviewed a patient's electronic medical record and associated medical imaging, provide a comprehensive medical second opinion report for the treating physician to share with their patient in order to help guide their clinical decisions toward the most appropriate and effective medical outcomes. For more information and a system demonstration, please visit www.MDAgree.com.


MD Aligne, LLC (MDA)
MD Aligne, LLC is a web and mobile-based consumer health company, aligning medical and healthcare resources to provide safe, convenient, affordable access to care. US Board-Certified primary care providers deliver care via telehealth and eConsults, using our digital platform to treat appropriate conditions for the financially responsible segments of the US population. Visit us at www.mdaligne.com.


Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCRX) is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the clinical and commercial development of new products that meet the needs of acute care practitioners and their patients. The company's current emphasis is the development of non-opioid products for postsurgical pain control, and its lead product, EXPAREL® (bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension), was commercially launched in the United States in April 2012. EXPAREL and two other products have utilized the Pacira proprietary product delivery technology DepoFoam®, a unique platform that encapsulates drugs without altering their molecular structure and then releases them over a desired period of time. For more information visit www.pacira.com.


Virgin Pulse
Virgin Pulse helps companies create a workforce with the energy, focus, and drive necessary to fully engage at work and in life. With its online platform, the company fosters healthy daily habits and sustainable behavior change that set the foundation for a thriving workforce and organization. Learn more at www.virginpulse.com.

MINI SUMMIT SPONSOR

Athenahealth
athenahealth is connecting care nationwide with cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), revenue cycle management, patient engagement, care coordination, and population health management, as well as with Epocrates and other point-of-care mobile apps. A recognized industry leader, athenahealth received five 2013 Best in KLAS awards, including #1 Overall Software Vendor and #1 Patient Portal. Our national network of 59,000+ providers includes the nation's largest non-profit health system, the #2 ACO in the country for quality, and several of the largest for-profit health systems in the country.

Unlike conventional health IT systems, athenahealth combines cloud-based software, networked knowledge and back-office services to help our clients increase profitability, remain focused on patient care, and thrive through change. In addition, our service for population health management identifies and engages patients, seamlessly transitions them across care settings, and uses analytics to optimize results, driving success under any payment mix.

To learn more, visit us at www.athenahealth.com


Continuum Health Alliance
Continuum Health Alliance, LLC ("Continuum") is an ambulatory care services company providing a proprietary managed health platform for population health management, practice management, and community care services. The company offers proven, strategic business and clinical solutions empowering medical providers within health systems, hospitals, physician groups, private practices and other health enterprises to enhance patient access and experience, improve health and lower costs. Continuum optimizes business and clinical processes with a strong commitment to best practices and evidenced-based medicine at the point-of-care. The Continuum Health Platform nurtures physician alignment and growth, transforms medical practices, expands a healthcare organization's community footprint and supports value-based reimbursement opportunities.

Continuum serves over 1,250 primary care physicians, specialists and nurse practitioners in private practice and hospital-affiliated settings. Clients benefit from the expertise of more than 400 highly experienced Continuum medical and business professionals who have demonstrated success in assisting clients located in nearly 400 medical offices and hospital locations.

To learn more about Continuum Health Alliance, please visit www.challc.net.


Oracle
Oracle is a leading strategic software solutions provider to the health sciences industry, helping pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare organizations become the most successful in the world by offering the most innovative products and services that deliver the most compelling customer and shareholder value. Oracle's comprehensive industry solutions include clinical trial management and analysis, electronic data capture, adverse event reporting and pharmacovigilance, and healthcare interoperability. Oracle partners with health sciences industry leaders -- including 20 of the top 20 life sciences companies and 14 of the top 14 Fortune Global 500 healthcare organizations -- to prevent and cure disease, enhance quality of life, and accelerate insights for better health. For more information visit www.oracle.com/healthsciences


Perficient
Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm, with nearly 2,200 professionals serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America. Our dedicated healthcare practice places the consumer at the forefront and delivers strategic, innovative and intelligent solutions for hospitals and health systems, integrated delivery networks, health plans, life sciences and state and federal government agencies.

For more information visit www.Perficient.com


EXHIBITORS

Agile Health
Agile Health is a mobile health engagement company. We engage individuals in an intensive, personal process of behavior change through text messaging programs that are widely accessible and easily understood. We target high value opportunities to impact individual health and improve quality and cost outcomes. Our wellness and condition management programs are designed to help users develop the knowledge, motivation and daily skills to achieve sustained behavior change, and are proven effective via published, peer-reviewed clinical trials. Each messaging program is supported by a web site which allows participants to personalize their messaging experience and provides access to information, tools and social support. Our health messaging platform can accommodate a variety of client configuration scenarios -- from standalone turn-key solutions to customized, integrated models that enable client-based counselors/care managers to engage, enroll, and support their member populations directly. Come by our booth or visit us at www.agilehealth.com to learn more.


American College of Medical Quality (ACMQ)
The American College of Medical Quality (ACMQ) is the Organization for healthcare professionals responsible for providing leadership in quality and safety outcomes, who want or need the tools, experience and expertise to improve the quality and safety of patient care. Membership in ACMQ provides you with a gateway to resources, programs, professional development opportunities and a greater recognition of quality issues by the entire healthcare field.

We do this by supplying members with our peer reviewed Journal; access to a network of the top minds in the field; and the premier annual conference for the quality community. Unlike other specialty organizations we focus exclusively on your quality team and its success as shown by ACMQ's 40-year legacy of pioneering support for the implementation and innovation of quality based medicine. For more information, visit www.acmq.org.


The American Hospital Association
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is a not-for-profit association of health care provider organizations and individuals that are committed to the improvement of health in their communities. The AHA is the national advocate for its members, who include nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations and 43,000 individual members. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. Visit www.aha.org to learn more.


Emmi Solutions
Emmi Solutions improves the patient experience and increases patient engagement by enhancing understanding of one's own health. The company creates web-based programs and personalized interactive voice response calls that simplify complex medical information and drive behavior change. Using empathic narration, easy to understand language and meaningful visuals, EmmiR programs and calls are prescribed by providers to empower people to take an active role in their health.

To support learning, people can view Emmi programs when they prefer, at their own pace and on their preferred devices. Outreach is delivered via a platform that tracks interactions and provides measureable insights on people's engagement with the content.

Emmi's platform easily integrates into EHRs for ease of information delivery and minimal impact on staff workflow. Emmi programs and call campaigns have been proven to improve the patient experience, reduce risk, create operational efficiencies, and increase quality and safety. For more information, visit www.emmisolutions.com.


Cerner
At Cerner, we're continuously building on our foundation of intelligent solutions for the health care industry. Our technologies connect people and systems at more than 18,000 facilities worldwide, and our wide range of services support the clinical, financial and operational needs of organizations of every size.

Together with our clients, we are creating a future where the health care system works to improve the well-being of individuals and communities. By designing leading-edge health information technology, we offer strategies that empower organizations to know, manage and engage their populations.

From the beginning, we have innovated at the intersection of health care and information technology. Our mission remains to contribute to the improvement of health care delivery and the health of communities. For more information visit www.cerner.com.


Exact Sciences
Exact Sciences is a Madison, WI based company that is dedicated to partnering with healthcare providers, payers, patients, and advocacy groups to eradicate colorectal cancer. Exact Sciences developed Cologuard, a new, non-invasive colorectal screening test to help achieve this mission. For more information, please visit www.Cologuardtest.com and www.Exactsciences.com.


Healthwise
Since 1975 our singular mission has been to help people make better health decisions. The Healthwise mission, combined with our innovative spirit, leads to revolutionary solutions that improve the impact of health education. The Healthwise® Patient Engagement Solution for Population Health gives your entire care team One Voice, One View. One voice by using a single desktop to automatically deliver patient-specific, actionable interventions one patient at a time or across a population. One view by bringing patient engagement into focus for the care team, from the point of care to care coordination over time. A full-circle solution for all your population health needs. Visit Healthwise during the Population Health Colloquium or www.healthwise.org.


ICW
InterComponentWare (ICW), a privately owned international Health Information Technology Software Company, has been a pioneer of innovation in health interoperability solutions for connected healthcare. We apply state-of-the-art software technology to develop robust and highly scalable applications that support interoperability across the continuum of care. We support the most advanced communication and interoperability standards by design and turn seamless integration into a straight forward process.

ICW's "community-based network approach" is easy to deploy, scale, manage and support. Our solutions empower care teams, administrators, payers and ACOs with the insights necessary to deliver the right information, at the right time, to the entire care team, for better outcomes.

With more than 15 years of experience in clinical data exchange and HIT, ICW sets the standard for clinician network management which enables healthcare organizations to leverage innovative models for cross-enterprise care coordination and patient-centric care delivery.

For more information visit www.icw-global.com


InfoMC
InfoMC Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based care management software for coordinating care for chronic illnesses. InfoMC offers a suite of workflow, data exchange, and analytics products to health plans, managed care organizations (MCO's), health systems, and public health agencies (state, county and community health centers). InfoMC's Chronic Care Management solution provides tools for optimal care coordination of chronic and/or complex physical and behavioral health conditions and populations, resulting in improved quality and cost of care outcomes. The solution is designed to enable an interdisciplinary care team -- across multiple sites -- to play an active role in the member's plan of care.

For more information visit www.infomc.com.


IntelliMap Consulting
IntelliMap Consulting provides Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services to many sectors including the healthcare industry. Using the visual power of maps to transform data into knowledge, GIS is a powerful technology that can help healthcare organizations make quicker but informed strategic planning decisions. Geodemographics at multiple levels of geography, business development, and patient origin analysis can be completed with GIS. Site selection decisions can also be facilitated using GIS. Market share analysis, for both owned facilities and competitors, can be shown using maps. Drive-times to your facilities can be visualized to achieve a better understanding of your service areas. Combining data you already have or data from selected sources with state-of-the-art software, IntelliMap Consulting produces maps that convey information in a format that is readily understood and can be used to make more timely population health decisions regarding your strategic goals. For more information, please visit www.intellimapconsulting.com or call 609-706-2880.


Mirth


NextGen Healthcare
NextGen Healthcare offers customized population health solutions tailored specifically to each organization's needs and goals. The fully integrated platform offers a single source, collaborative care management and optimization suite that results in improved clinical and financial outcomes across organizations. The population health solutions deliver proactive, automated patient outreach enabling providers to more effectively manage the health of their entire patient panel, identify gaps in care, and focus on their high-risk patients. Providers can easily access aggregated, actionable patient data to better manage chronic conditions and document and report their patient outreach, especially important in the new value-based reimbursements environment. And because the population health solutions are fully integrated with all NextGen® solutions, no third-party interfaces are required. Providers can easily meet current incentive-based quality measures and published guidelines for quality reporting such as PQRS, NCQA, NQF, and MU. Learn more, visit Nextgen.com.


Population Health Center (PHC)
The Population Health Center (PHC) provides services to respond to the emerging needs of public and private health care entities, clinical medicine and public health organization through partnerships that address problems and create solutions that improve health behaviors and outcomes for specific geographical populations.

Guided by the three pillars of population health -- data analytics, quality improvement and patient engagement - the PHC uses innovative and creative strategies to improve the quality of care and health outcomes, while providing a better experience of care for patients and decreasing overall costs. For more information visit www.populationhealthcenter.org.


Population Health Center at Delmarva Foundation
The Population Health Center (PHC) provides services to respond to the emerging needs of public and private health care entities, clinical medicine and public health organization through partnerships that address problems and create solutions that improve health behaviors and outcomes for specific geographical populations.

Guided by the three pillars of population health -- data analytics, quality improvement and patient engagement - the PHC uses innovative and creative strategies to improve the quality of care and health outcomes, while providing a better experience of care for patients and decreasing overall costs. For more information visit www.populationhealthcenter.org.


Population Health Management, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Population Health Management is the premier journal defining the field and dedicated to the interplay of health outcomes, social determinants of health, and the policies and interventions that move our system from "acute care" to "health care." The Journal delivers evidence-based research detailing the value proposition for prevention; clinical case reports and studies to optimize the management of major health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, depression, chronic pain, and obesity; insights into innovative new programs; updates from the frontlines of health care reform; and much more. Population Health Management is spearheaded by David B. Nash, MD, MBA, Jefferson School of Population Health, and is the official journal of the Population Health Alliance. Sign up for free Population Health Management email alerts at www.liebertpub.com/pop/connect.


Qlik
Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in data discovery delivering intuitive solutions for self-service data visualization and guided analytics. Approximately 33,000 customers rely on Qlik solutions to gain meaning out of information from varied sources. Within the healthcare industry, Qlik solutions are deployed to more than 1,000 provider organizations, enabling them to make evidence-based decisions in key areas such as population health management, quality, revenue cycle and operations. Qlik was recognized as Best in KLAS in 2013 for Business Analytics. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik has offices around the world with more than 1700 partners covering more than 100 countries. For more information visit www.qlik.com.


RightCare
RightCare is a medical technology company that helps hospitals and health systems reduce readmissions and optimize post-acute care delivery. Our RightCare software identifies the risk and needs for all patients at admission, matches patients to the most appropriate post-acute care and applicable community-based services, and electronically connects to the post-acute care providers that are selected . The company's proprietary technology was developed through a decade of research conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, provides the most academic, innovative and predictive software for risk stratifying any patient at admission and utilizes evidence-based technology to optimize care transitions. It is the only medical software focused on healthcare transitions using a unique algorithm that enables continuous point-of-care decision support, optimizes workflow, and dramatically improves post-acute care transitions. For more information please go to www.RightCareSolutions.com.


Symphony Performance Health (SPH)
Symphony Performance Health (SPH) is a leader in action analytics for provider, payer, and health networks through powerful data, applications, analytics, and consulting. SPH solutions enable clients to enhance the patient care experience, improve population health, reduce the overall cost of care, and elevate provider performance. SPH solutions also incorporate an engaging social-media style user experience optimized for mobility to measure data, create easy-to-understand analytics, and empower action. Founded through the merger of Voyance Health, MDdatacor, and Archimedes Clinical Analytics, Symphony Performance Health is a member of the $2.5B Symphony Technology Group. For more information, call 1-866-460-5681 or visit www.SymphonyPH.com.


Truven Health Analytics
Truven Health Analytics™ leverages robust market-wide data assets and applies widely-respected analytic expertise to deliver trusted solutions and services that guide hospitals and health systems in implementing and managing population-health initiatives to improve the quality and cost of healthcare. Providing perspective gained from thousands of clients across multiple healthcare markets for more than 40 years, Truven Health offers unparalleled analytic rigor and innovative methodologies to help manage complex and disparate data, gain insight, and implement integrated solutions to execute change and create new inroads for healthcare improvement.

For more information visit www.Truvenhealth.com


Vestagen Technical Textiles
Vestagen Technical Textiles is the maker of VESTEX® fabric. VESTEX is a protective fabric that combines fluid repellent and antimicrobial technologies embedded into healthcare worker and patient attire to provide better protection from acquiring and spreading harmful pathogens like MRSA. VESTEX is breathable and the only fabric clinically effective at inhibiting growth of bacteria on the fabric, providing protection and peace of mind.

For more information visit www.vestexprotects.com and www.vestagen.com.


VitreosHealth
VitreosHealth (selected as the 2014 Most Promising Healthtech Company) is redefining Population Health Management as a leading provider of the most innovative predictive modeling and prescriptive analytics platform. The solution, utilized by Large medical groups, ACOs, PCMHs, Hospital Systems, Pediatric Hospitals and HMOs, combines data from disparate sources (EMR, Claims, Demographics, and Social Media) to create a COMPLETE population/cohort risk profile, utilization management and care recommendations for improved outcomes and costs. VitreosHealth's customer success case studies have been well documented in leading healthcare journals such as AMGA and hfma magazines.

Because they recognize the IT, business intelligence resource challenges that most healthcare organizations face when it comes to utilizing a robust analytics platform, VitreosHealth offers on-demand, Insights-as-a-Service, low investment Cohort Term Licenses (3 to 6 month subscriptions) and Outcomes-based Risk pricing models. Dedicated account management and data scientists at VitreosHealth become an extension of the customer's analytics and care coordination teams. For more information, please visit www.vitreoshealth.com.


Wellcentive
Built from the ground up to help customers improve clinical, financial and human outcomes, Wellcentive's population health management technology is cloud-based, scalable, and customized to meet the needs of providers, health organizations and payers. Wellcentive's technology, insight and services help care teams measure and report performance and implement actionable workflows to drive value-based reimbursement and smoothen the transition from volume to value.

For more information visit www.wellcentive.com



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