Emdeon Announces Collaboration with Atigeo, Educational Sessions During HIMSS13

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Emdeon Inc., a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, today announced a collaboration with Atigeo™, a compassionate technology company that turns science into products and services for a wiser world. Together, Emdeon and Atigeo plan to explore the use of intelligent analytics layered on top of petabytes of healthcare data to improve health outcomes.

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"Ultimately, the combination of a network of connectivity, universal health information exchange and freakishly intelligent analytics can help to significantly improve healthcare in the U.S.," said Miriam Paramore, executive vice president of corporate strategy and product development for Emdeon. "Our collaboration with Atigeo is the type of relationship the healthcare industry needs to dynamically surface valuable healthcare data that can help eliminate cost and improve care and satisfaction. After giving numerous vendors the chance to integrate our big data, Atigeo was up to the task."

Emdeon is the single largest clinical, financial and administrative health information network in the nation. In 2012, Emdeon processed nearly seven billion health information exchanges, including approximately one out of every two commercial healthcare claims delivered electronically in the United States. Emdeon's network connects to over 400,000 hospitals, physicians, labs, pharmacies, payers and channel partners. This exceptional access to healthcare data paired with analytics, designed to learn like a neural network, creates opportunities that help drive key programs like care collaboration, accountable care, medical home and pay for performance.

"Converting healthcare data into actionable information empowers healthcare providers to formulate meaningful, well-founded care decisions for their patients," said Michael Sandoval, chairman and CEO of Atigeo. "Emdeon's vast data resources are a perfect fit for the application of xPatterns technology and we are honored to work with a market leader to improve healthcare decisions."

xPatterns, Atigeo's cloud-based big data analytics platform, rapidly exposes insight abstracted across vast repositories of structured and unstructured data. Given the sharp rise in big data, including newly digitized EMR data, there is a need for technology solutions to piece together the bits and bytes into meaningful pictures. The xPatterns platform is a cloud-based application framework for rapidly building enterprise-grade, intelligent applications that make big data more accessible and actionable.

In addition to demonstrating the beneficial outcomes of big data and real-time analytics, Emdeon will also present short, impactful educational sessions featuring Emdeon and industry partner subject matter experts on clinical information exchange and interoperability innovation. All educational presentations will take place at booth number 5027 in Emdeon's in-booth theater.

Epic Orders Through Emdeon: Removing the Barriers to Clean Electronic Orders
Monday, March 4th 3:00pm – 3:30pm
Eric Reynolds, Vice President, Sales and Strategy, Emdeon
Learn how you can reduce EHR integration headaches and prepare for MU Stage 2 by enabling electronic orders to flow cleanly through Epic and other Health Information Systems (HIS).

The Future of Coding is NOW: Maximizing Coding Efficiency and Accuracy Using Big Data and Analytics
Tuesday, March 5th 11:00am – 11:30am
Manjula Iyer, Director of Product Management, Atigeo
In this session, you will learn how recent breakthroughs in intelligent analytics applied to large scale clinical data sets can help your hospital stop revenue leakage, maximize coding efficiency and minimize ICD-10 conversion headaches today.

Breaking the Cycle: How Big Data and Real-Time Analytics Can Help You Intelligently Manage Readmissions
Tuesday, March 5th 3:00pm – 3:30pm
Gene Boerger, Vice President, Product Innovation, Emdeon
Learn how your hospital can break the costly readmissions cycle by identifying patterns in patient data to provide actionable recommendations, using cloud-based predictive analytics.

Interoperability: The Key to ePrescribing Success
Wednesday, March 6th 11:00am – 11:30am
Lathe Bigler, Sr. Director, Clinical Services, Emdeon
In this session, you will learn the importance of interoperability in the selection and implementation of an ePrescribing solution and how you can maximize your return on investment.

About Emdeon
Emdeon is a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, connecting payers, providers and patients in the U.S. healthcare system. Emdeon's offerings integrate and automate key business and administrative functions of its payer and provider customers throughout the patient encounter. Through the use of Emdeon's comprehensive suite of solutions, which are designed to easily integrate with existing technology infrastructures, customers are able to improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase cash flow and more efficiently manage the complex revenue and payment cycle and clinical information exchange processes. For more information, visit www.emdeon.com.

About Atigeo™
Atigeo is a compassionate technology company for a wiser planet. Its big data analytics platform, xPatterns, operates in the cloud to lower any company's cost barrier for extracting knowledge from all available data, even with a legacy IT infrastructure. Enterprise-grade and developer-accessible, xPatterns makes data easier to leverage in its native state, greatly reducing the effort, expense and limitations of data architecture and analysis. For more information, please visit www.atigeo.com or find us on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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