Valence Health Selected by Cleveland Clinic to Support Clinical Integration Program

CHICAGO, Jan. 14, 2011  /PRNewswire/ -- The Cleveland Clinic and Valence Health announced today that they will partner to support the Clinic's effort to become a clinically integrated network.  This new network, the Quality Alliance, will bring together the Cleveland Clinic Hospitals, physicians, and more than 1,000 private practitioners in the community.

The Cleveland Clinic, through its Community Physician Partnership (CPP), recognized the need to pursue Clinical Integration as a contracting vehicle and quality of care strategy, creating substantial interdependence among its participating providers.  After an extensive search for the right solution, CPP leadership selected Valence based on their unique ability to aggregate health care data from physicians, hospitals, and other providers. "We were looking for a partner who could provide the tools and support to meet our goals of improving quality and standardizing patient care," states Michael McMillan, Executive Director of Cleveland Clinic Market and Network Services.

Valence's clinical integration solution includes assistance with physician integration strategies, data collection and analysis, performance reporting, and point-of-care tools to support improved quality and efficiencies.

About Valence Health

Valence Health was founded in March 1996 with a vision of providing management support to providers and provider initiatives such as IPAS, PHOs and integrated delivery systems. Today, Valence provides outsourced administrative management services to health plans and clinical integration solutions through data analytics and other custom tools to support provider organizations in their desire to manage care as effectively and efficiently as possible. For more information about Valence Health's Clinical Integration capabilities and solutions, contact Lori Fox Ward, VP of Clinical Integration, at 312.277.6304 or visit www.valencehealth.com.

About Cleveland Clinic

The Cleveland Clinic Community Physician Partnership (CPP) is a network of physicians, hospitals, health centers and other providers affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic Health System. They serve the patient population in a seven-country service area of Northeast Ohio. The CPP provider organization is comprised of the Cleveland Clinic main campus; nine regional hospitals; approximately 2,000 physicians and 800 mid-level providers employed by the Cleveland Clinic; and approximately 1,250 independent community physicians in private practice.

SOURCE Valence Health