Healthcare Data Services (HDS) Announces Contract with Caritas Christi Network Services

BOSTON, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare Data Services (HDS) is pleased to announce a contract with Caritas Christi Network Services (CCNS) to provide data management, reporting, and quality monitoring services through the implementation and use of HDS Analyst.

CCNS, the physician network for six hospitals of the Caritas Christi Health System, selected HDS' highly customized warehousing, querying, reporting, and workflow capabilities tool to consolidate data monitoring. Implementing HDS Analyst will enable CCNS to achieve a new level of data reporting required by the implementation of their new Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Alternative Quality Contract (AQC).

This partnership will allow CCNS to utilize HDS Analyst, HDS' proprietary data warehousing tool, to extrapolate and organize vital healthcare and financial data from multiple disparate sources to achieve flexible, needs-based reporting systems that effectively measure and analyze information. CCNS will also use HDS Quality Manager, a NCQA-certified module, to monitor compliance with HEDIS quality measures and to capitalize on its distributed workflow capabilities.

"We are pleased to work with CCNS physicians to address the complexities of operating in today's competitive managed care environment," states Bridget Buckley, Principal of HDS. "Our partnership will allow us to work with CCNS to help reduce financial risk, cut costs by monitoring efficiencies, and further improve the quality of healthcare services offered to patients."

According to John Donlan, VP of Managed and Accountable Care for CCNS, "We selected HDS Analyst and HDS Quality Manager for the flexibility, scalability, and customization options available. These features combined with high-level industry expertise in the rapidly changing managed care landscape, puts HDS ahead of the rest."

About CCNS

Caritas Christi Network Services (CCNS) is the second largest physician network in Massachusetts. Established in 2001 as the physician network for the six hospitals of the Caritas Christi Health System, CCNS extends across the communities throughout the Caritas service areas of eastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and Rhode Island. The 1,100 member physicians from the seven IPA's that make up CCNS, both primary care physicians and a full range of specialists, provide care to more than 100,000 managed care lives.

Caritas Christi Health Care, New England's largest community-based hospital network, is a comprehensive, integrated health care delivery network providing community-based medicine and tertiary care in eastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Each hospital and facility within the Caritas family, while part of an extensive network of health care providers, has its own rich history of providing outstanding, compassionate care right in the communities where patients need it most.

About HDS:

Founded in 2004 in Boston, MA, Healthcare Data Services (HDS) provides a highly customizable approach to integrated healthcare data analysis. HDS's approach allows payers, providers, and employers to make accurate, proactive, and knowledge-based decisions in a timely manner by uncovering hidden patterns and predictive data.

HDS Analyst(SM) enables consolidation of critical data, on-demand reporting, and high-level analytic solutions for clients, while HDS Expert(SM) guarantees platinum level service enhancements, customization capabilities, and superior technical support for every user.

For more information, call 617.597.0111 or visit www.hdsweb.com.

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