Velocity provides robust, flexible and easy-to-use search platform to enable healthcare professionals to find Medicare reimbursement rules and regulation

PITTSBURGH, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com), a leader in enterprise search, today announced that HCPro, a provider of education and information on healthcare regulatory compliance and management, has selected Vivisimo's award-winning Velocity platform to power search on MedicareFind.com. Launching today, MedicareFind.com is a web-based regulatory database that allows healthcare professionals and hospital administrators to easily and intuitively access Medicare reimbursement rules and regulations.

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Through the Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform, MedicareFind.com users can access highly relevant and precise data, including Medicare reimbursement rules and regulations, guidelines, billing procedures and more -- all through a single search box. Users of MedicareFind.com, can take advantage of Velocity's feature set to create highly targeted search queries based on date, type of document or source. Velocity enables users to quickly see authoritative results, empowering them to easily navigate to the most relevant information.

"MedicareFind.com exemplifies site search at its best by providing healthcare professionals the ability to cut through mountains of clutter to find relevant information about Medicare reimbursements and guidelines rapidly," said Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivisimo. "With Velocity, MedicareFind.com ends the cycle of ineffective search within Medicare and increases overall awareness on regulations and reimbursement policies that were previously difficult to access and find. HCPro has built an impressive database of Medicare information that -- when used with Velocity search -- creates productivity gains and increases efficiencies for all its users."

Velocity's ease of implementation, flexible user interface and social search features were key business drivers in selecting Vivisimo to power MedicareFind.com.

"We are excited to partner with Vivisimo today to launch MedicareFind.com and bring a welcome new change in how healthcare professionals find Medicare reimbursement guidelines, regulations and source authorities," said Lauren Mcleod-Tulloch, Revenue Cycle Group Publisher at HCPro, Inc. "The power of Velocity combined with the data indexing and management work of our development and content teams has resulted in a regulatory database rated consistently faster than CMS and other search methods by our pilot testers."

About Vivisimo, Inc.

Vivisimo provides enterprises with innovative search solutions that allow end-users to find and take advantage of all appropriate and available information, regardless of source, location or type. Vivisimo's innovative technology, including social search tools that enable collaboration throughout the enterprise, is delivered with a focus on end-user satisfaction and on application control through easy-to-use interfaces, flexible security management and a modern architecture that enables quick deployment. Vivisimo products are available for standalone search applications or as OEM versions embedded as critical search technology within partner applications and solutions. Vivisimo serves its global clients from headquarters in Pittsburgh, USA, and partners throughout the world. Visit Vivisimo.com and our [Search Done Right(TM)] blog.

About HCPro, Inc.

HCPro, Inc., www.hcpro.com is a portfolio company of Halyard Investments providing information, advice, consulting, and research on healthcare regulation and revenue cycle management.

    Leo Tignini
    Vivisimo
    (908) 907-6246
    leo@vivisimo.com

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