Collaborative Care and Wellness Management solutions for Health Plans
Published: April 17, 2006
Collaborative Care and Wellness Management is an integrated approach to improving health, controlling costs, increasing productivity, and reducing absenteeism across the continuum of care. It encompasses everything from disease management to case management, utilization review, wellness programs, and behavioral health. Use this page to find Microsoft partners that can help your company create a collaborative care and wellness management solution.
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Featured case study: Premera Blue Cross reduces research time, increases case capacity, and employee satisfaction with case management tool
Case managers at Premera Blue Cross—an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association—handle the post-hospitalization needs of patients with complex medical conditions. Until recently, opening a new case could take 160 minutes and require using two different case management systems. Ongoing management was paper-intensive. Working with Microsoft and Microsoft Certified Partner Accenture, Premera built its Case Management Collaboration Tool using Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and the Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 information gathering program. The new tool shaved 40 minutes off the time to open new cases, reduced research time by 70 percent, increased case capacity by 20 percent, and improved employee satisfaction by 17 percent. Premera estimates that the annual medical cost savings from deploying the Microsoft solution will be at least $9.6 million US. Read the full case study:
Collaborative Care and Wellness Management solutions from Microsoft partners
These featured partners offer collaborative care and wellness management solutions built on the Microsoft platform:
| • | Allscripts, LLC. (Microsoft Certified Partner)
Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The company provides solutions that inform, connect, and transform healthcare. The Clinical Solutions Group’s award-winning clinical software applications include Electronic Health Record, e-prescribing, and document imaging solutions. Allscripts’ Physicians Interactive Group provides clinical product education and connectivity solutions for physicians and patients. Allscript’s Medication Services Group provides medication fulfillment services. |
| • | Avanade, Inc. (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
Avanade™ is the leading technology integrator with specialization in the Microsoft enterprise platform. Avanade helps customers around the world maximize technology investments and create comprehensive solutions that drive business results. Avanade’s services and solutions span all Microsoft enterprise technologies to deliver improvements in infrastructure and applications. |
| • | Health Dialog
Health Dialog is a leading provider of care management services, including disease management, and is one of the fastest growing privately held firms in the United States. The firm helps physician groups, health plans, and self-insured employers improve healthcare quality while reducing overall costs. The firm’s services include analytic services and telephonic and other care management support for individuals. Health Dialog helps individuals become more actively engaged in their healthcare and have more effective relationships with their physicians. |
| • | Healthways, Inc.
Healthways provides total population health management solutions aimed at lowering costs and improving quality of care for health plans the government and employers. We deliver integrated health and care support programs, including health risk screening and support, condition and disease management and advanced care support to 2 million people nationwide. Through innovation, collaboration and a relentless pursuit for flawless execution, we have returned more than $1 billion in healthcare savings to our customers. |
| • | Infosys Technologies Ltd (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
Infosys defines, designs and delivers IT-enabled business solutions that provide you with strategic differentiation and operational superiority to increase your competitiveness. Each solution is delivered with the industry-benchmark Infosys Predictability that gives you peace of mind. With Infosys, you are assured of a transparent business partner, business-IT alignment with flexibility, world-class processes, speed of execution and the power to stretch your IT budget by leveraging the Global Delivery Model that Infosys pioneered. |
| • | Quilogy (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
Quilogy provides clinical, business, and technical solutions through its healthcare and public-sector industry practices. Headquartered in St. Charles, Missouri, Quilogy has 14 offices to deliver services primarily in the Central and Midwestern regions of the United States. Quilogy uses Microsoft technologies to develop and implement solutions for hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, outpatient facilities, pharmaceutical companies, software vendors, and public-sector health agencies. Quilogy’s Information-Worker practice focuses on boosting healthcare information-worker productivity to achieve competitive advantage. Quilogy healthcare solutions are a combination of accelerator and customized solutions that integrate into clients’ existing environments and platforms. Quilogy offers special healthcare technology and public-sector expertise in portals and collaboration, integration, and mobility. |
