Partnership Formed to Deliver Solutions for Population Health Management and Analytics

Atlanta, GA, December 18, 2012 – Wellcentive announced a partnership with PSS World Medical to deliver solutions focused on the evolving health information technology (HIT) needs of healthcare providers and their organizations. Through this partnership, PSS will add the Advance™ population health management and analytics platform to its HIT portfolio.

This partnership will enable PSS to expand its HIT offering and address some of the most challenging aspects of today’s healthcare landscape, including coordinated, proactive care; risk-based and performance-driven reimbursement; and patient engagement. As a result, PSS will continue to deepen the value it delivers to its customers, which include numerous physician offices, Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH), health systems, community health centers, and other organizations.

Frank Murphy, Wellcentive President & CEO, said, “We are extremely pleased to be selected by PSS as their population health management and analytics solution provider. PSS has maintained their leadership by keeping pace with the healthcare industry. Wellcentive’s solutions address the needs of the PSS customer base as they seek efficient, effective ways to deliver coordinated care, engage patients, measure provider performance, and demonstrate clinical quality improvement.”

“Wellcentive’s solutions enable us to fulfill our core Purpose – strengthening the clinical success and financial health of caregivers by solving their biggest problems,” added Greg Dean, Senior Director of Healthcare Information Technology for PSS. “To fulfill this Purpose, PSS is continually evaluating partners with solutions that address our customers’ challenges. Responsible population health management and analytics are essential in today’s world of clinical quality initiatives, accountable care, and performance-based reimbursement. Wellcentive’s solutions will strengthen our HIT offering and allow our sales team to enhance their customer relationships.”

For more information about Wellcentive, visit www.wellcentive.com.

About Wellcentive:

Wellcentive delivers physician-facing, end-to-end population health management solutions that help clients improve both clinical and financial outcomes. Wellcentive’s cloud-based, scalable, customizable Advance™ solution enables comprehensive population health management with industry-leading point of care, risk assessment, predictive modeling, care management, and automated patient outreach tools. Wellcentive’s proprietary interfacing platform aggregates and normalizes clinical and administrative data from disparate sources, including EMRs, local and national labs, e-Rx, PMS, health systems, payers, HIEs, and data warehouses. Wellcentive transforms this actionable data into meaningful information that enables preventive care, evidence-based disease management, population health management, physician alignment, clinical integration, and participation in reimbursement programs that include Pay-for-Performance, PCMH, Meaningful Use, PQRS, and Accountable Care.

Thousands of providers and their organizations use Wellcentive solutions to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care for millions of patients. Wellcentive’s industry-leading interfacing platform has more than 1,400 live interfaces and exchanges millions of messages every week with a wide variety of local and national interfacing partners. Wellcentive’s clients include some of the most prestigious physician groups, physician organizations, health information exchanges, professional organizations, and employer groups in the country.

About PSS World Medical:

PSS World Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSSI) markets and distributes medical products and services to front-line caregivers throughout the United States. With 4,000 team members, PSS is a leader in the markets it serves with innovative approaches to customer service and operational excellence. Its stated purpose is to strengthen the clinical success and financial health of caregivers by solving their biggest problems. The Company is focused to accelerate growth in four markets – Physician, Laboratory, Dispensing, and Home Care & Hospice – with products and solutions that deliver high quality, cost effective, and convenient patient care.

Wellcentive provides data from EMR systems to measure physician performance against transformation goals

Atlanta, GA, December 17, 2012 – Wellcentive, an industry leader in population health management and analytics solutions, announces that AmpliPHY has selected the company to provide its data analytics platform to primary care practices.

AmpliPHY helps physician-driven organizations prosper by leading healthcare transformation in their communities.

Wellcentive Advance™ platform will provide the data necessary to help AmpliPHY’s clients manage their patient populations and control their clinical processes differently to deliver value. This process is critical to their clients who are forming Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) by improving outcomes and demonstrating clinical quality improvement to payers. With Wellcentive Advance, practices can now evaluate physician performance using customizable benchmarks and compare that performance with other physicians’ outcomes at that practice group or the overall physician network – all in real time.

Said Randy Cook, AmpliPHY President and CEO, “Wellcentive Advance is an essential part of our client transformation because it provides the insights necessary for primary care practices to become ACOs and to demonstrate value to payers. After reviewing a wide range of options, we concluded that Wellcentive offers the most robust and insightful data platform available on the market.”

Johnson Purchase Medical Associates in Paducah, Kentucky is the first practice under the AmpliPHY relationship that has adopted the Wellcentive Advance Manager platform for providers within its system.

Said Dr. Richard D. Smith, Chief Medical Officer, Jackson Purchase Medical Associates, “Wellcentive delivers a complete, robust and enhanced population health management tool which I firmly believe will make a difference in the care we provide our patients. An extensive review of our existing software programs revealed that we needed to explore other options. After completing our research and speaking with a variety of potential partners, we concluded that Wellcentive’s software platform will bring the greatest value to our organization.”

Added Frank Murphy, Wellcentive President & CEO, “We are pleased to work with AmpliPHY and its growing base of clients who are embracing and transitioning to performance based reimbursement models. Our deep experience in value-based medicine has enabled us to form consultative relationships across the country with firms like AmpliPHY. Because of our focus, we can keep AmpliPHY current on the latest developments and trends. They in turn can offer this expertise to their clients as a part of their entire portfolio of services.”

For more information about Wellcentive, visit www.wellcentive.com

About Wellcentive:

Wellcentive delivers physician-facing, end-to-end population health management solutions that help clients improve both clinical and financial outcomes. Wellcentive’s cloud-based, scalable, customizable Advance™ solution enables comprehensive population health management with industry-leading point of care, risk assessment, predictive modeling, care management, and automated patient outreach tools. Wellcentive’s proprietary interfacing platform aggregates and normalizes clinical and administrative data from disparate sources, including EMRs, local and national labs, e-Rx, PMS, health systems, payers, HIEs, and data warehouses. Wellcentive transforms this actionable data into meaningful information that enables preventive care, evidence-based disease management, population health management, physician alignment, clinical integration, and participation in reimbursement programs that include Pay-for-Performance, PCMH, Meaningful Use, PQRS, and Accountable Care.

Thousands of providers and their organizations use Wellcentive solutions to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care for millions of patients. Wellcentive’s industry-leading interfacing platform has more than 1,300 live interfaces and exchanges millions of messages every week with a wide variety of local and national interfacing partners. Wellcentive’s clients include some of the most prestigious physician groups, physician organizations, health information exchanges, professional organizations, and employer groups in the country.

Wellcentive co-founder and Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Paul D. Taylor is on HIT Consultant today discussing the real purpose of Meaningful Use incentives: improving clinical quality and outcomes. Dr. Taylor deconstructs Meaningful Use and explains why it doesn’t necessarily require adopting an EMR/EHR by breaking down the requirements and how they relate to what we’ve defined as the Six Pillars of Responsible Population Health Management.

To read the full article, head on over to HIT Consultant.

Providers who use Advance Outcomes Manager Gain Additional Benefits Using NCQA-Certified Software

Atlanta, GA, November 26, 2012 – Wellcentive, an industry leader in population health management and analytics solutions, announces that it has successfully completed the rigorous process required for Advance Outcomes Manager to become certified by NCQA.

NCQA is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA accredits and certifies a wide range of health care organizations and manages the evolution of HEDIS®, the performance measurement tool used by more than 90 percent of the nation’s health plans. NCQA developed the Diabetes Recognition Program (DRP) to recognize clinicians who use evidence-based measures and provide excellent care to their patients with diabetes. Continue reading →