Anodyne Health, Seven Other Companies Join in Significant Expansion of MedAxiom Corporate Partner Program

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- MedAxiom, a subscription-based service provider and information resource that provides benchmarking and performance data to cardiology practices, today announced a significant expansion to its Corporate Partner program. The company noted that eight additional companies, including Anodyne Health, have joined the program so far this year, providing a wide range of services to its cardiology practice members.  MedAxiom now has more than 30 organizations involved in its Corporate Partner program.

MedAxiom's Corporate Partners include industry leaders such as the American College of Cardiology, Philips Healthcare and more. These partners deliver services that help cardiologists nationwide improve their organizational focus, efficiency and profitability. Those services run the gamut from computer software and hardware services and strategic consultancy to the procurement and delivery of advanced diagnostic tools.

"Cardinal Health is pleased to participate in MedAxiom's Corporate Partner program.  Through our involvement, we have had the opportunity to learn more about the needs of today's busy cardiology practices and better design solutions and services to enhance safety, productivity, and compliance," said Michael Guastella, vice president of marketing and product development for Cardinal Health's Nuclear Pharmacy Services business. "As we continue to provide our cardiologist customers with access to new radiopharmaceuticals, improved productivity solutions, and better ways to provide high quality, cost-effective patient care, we will continue to utilize opportunities like MedAxiom's Corporate Partner program to innovate across our product and service portfolio."  Cardinal Health, Inc. is a $91 billion, global company serving the health care industry with products and services that help hospitals, physician offices and pharmacies reduce costs, improve safety, productivity and profitability, and deliver better care to patients.  

This year has been the busiest so far for the MedAxiom Corporate Partner program, with participation expanding by more than 20 percent. The companies that have joined the program in 2010 include:

• ADM Imaging is the premier national provider of diagnostic medical imaging solutions and services.  Since 1984, ADM has built successful partnerships with physicians and hospitals throughout the country, allowing them access to the most current medical imaging technologies through shared risk proposition.
• Anodyne Health, a unit of Athena Health, a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for healthcare provider organizations.  The company's unique, easy-to-use, web-based BI software, which includes both an ad-hoc analytics and a dashboard application, revolutionizes access to revenue cycle information that was once thought difficult, or even impossible, to obtain.
• Diagnostix Plus is the largest provider of turnkey cardiac PET MPI systems and equipment in the industry.  The company buys, sells, trades, rents, upgrades and supports nuclear medicine and nuclear cardiology imaging and accessory items.
• EthosPartners' proprietary analytic software tool, VitalStats, is an online electronic consultant service that continually monitors the performance data of cardiology practices, hospitals or health systems in key areas, providing the knowledge needed to make better business decisions.
• Healthy Heart Sleep Program (HHSP) integrates the practices of cardiology and sleep medicine in a comprehensive plan designed to educate and train cardiologists and their staff to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients whose cardiac diseases are complicated by sleep breathing disorders.
• Paragon Health has become the leader in Cardiology Practice growth strategies in private practices throughout America, providing strategic and consulting services to cardiology groups nationwide, and partnering with some of the leading thought leaders and service providers in the industry.
• UltraLinq Healthcare Solutions provides a secure web-based solution for the reliable reviewing, reporting, archiving, managing, sharing and distribution of a multitude of ultrasound and other medical imaging modalities. UltraLinq offers its clients a low-cost, secure, and flexible system that provides authorized users anytime, anywhere access to vital information. 

"Our corporate partners represent the best of today's industry; all are dedicated to helping cardiologists deliver quality healthcare," said Jim Gann, MedAxiom's vice president of marketing.  "Bringing them together helps us ensure that the cardiologists and practices who subscribe to MedAxiom have access to the tools that are more important than ever in today's rapidly changing healthcare environment."  Gann noted that the eight companies newly enrolled in the Corporate Partner program will take part as exhibitors at MedAxiom's Fall Conference, to be held next month in Scottsdale.  Cardiologists and practice administrators from more than one hundred practices throughout the United States are expected at the conference, which will cover topics such as practice integration, payment reform, quality reporting and more.

About MedAxiom

MedAxiom is a comprehensive subscription-based service provider, information and networking resource exclusively for cardiology practices encompassing academic cardiology organizations, hospital-owned cardiology practices as well as physician-owned cardiology groups. Based in Neptune Beach, Florida, MedAxiom supports over 300 cardiology practices across the United States, representing more than 5,400 cardiologists.  More information is available at www.medaxiom.com.

SOURCE MedAxiom