Coventry Health Care Selects Landacorp's CareRadius Suite to Advance Collaborative Care

CHICO, Calif., July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Landacorp, A Carewise Health Affiliate and leader in collaborative care and health management solutions, today announced that its CareRadius Suite has been selected by Coventry Health Care, Inc. (NYSE: CVH).

Coventry Health Care is a diversified national managed healthcare company based in Bethesda, Maryland, operating health plans that serve more than five million members across the United States. Coventry's health plans provide solutions to optimize health and deliver exceptional value. Coventry's selection of Landacorp as a health care enterprise partner furthers the health plan leader's strategic vision of bringing together members, employers, and providers, making available the best possible information, and together devising solutions that help people enjoy optimal health.  

"Through an extensive selection process and onsite proof-of-concept, it became clear that Landacorp was the right partner who understands our business and has the proven software to achieve our health improvement goals and facilitate collaboration across our organization, with our members and providers," said Pat Mueller, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Coventry Health Care, Inc.

Landacorp's CareRadius Suite, was selected by Coventry for its collaborative care and health management platform. CareRadius brings together a set of technology, business and clinical tools related to a member's health into a single view allowing plans to engage with members and their providers for health improvement. The Web-based architecture of CareRadius allows information sharing from a number of sources into a single desktop. This ease of access to relevant member data presented in an intelligent way helps care managers, members, and providers create and monitor individualized health and wellness care plans. This means better care for members and optimization of every health dollar spent.

"The partnership of Coventry and Landacorp creates an opportunity to impact the coordination of care for more than five million health plan members. Given the dynamic changes in health care, the CareRadius technology is an enabler for industry leaders such as Coventry to improve the health of large populations and compete in a new marketplace," said Rishabh Mehrotra, president and CEO of Landacorp's parent company, SHPS, Inc. "We look forward to assisting Coventry in delivering on its health optimization strategy."

About Landacorp, A Carewise Health Affiliate

Landacorp, a Carewise Health Affiliate, has been creating software solutions for health plans and healthcare-delivery organizations for more than 25 years. Proven to perform in the largest user groups, the company's CareRadius Suite automatically identifies the right members for timely and cost-effective intervention; enables highly efficient collaboration among providers, members and health plans; and delivers clinical care tools that improve member health.  Visit www.landacorp.com for more information.

SOURCE Landacorp, a Carewise Health Affiliate