Wexford-Mercy PHO Utilizes WellCentive System to Improve Quality Outcomes and Streamline Care Delivery ATLANTA and MUSKEGON, Mich., Nov. 18
ATLANTA and MUSKEGON, Mich., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- WellCentive, LLC
(WellCentive) today announced that its WellCentive Registry has been selected
for use by Wexford-Mercy PHO, a Cadillac, Mich.-based physician hospital
organization affiliated with Mercy Hospital in Cadillac. The organization
plans to use the system to improve clinical quality outcomes and streamline
the care delivery process.
Through the use of the WellCentive Registry, physicians and other health
care providers are better able to track patients who have chronic health
conditions such as diabetes, asthma or heart disease. The WellCentive
Registry also includes highly effective patient outreach capabilities,
including an integrated automated telephone appointment and care reminder
system called WellCentive Outreach. WellCentive (www.wellcentive.com)
provides comprehensive Web-based preventive care and chronic disease
management solutions for physicians, physician organizations, health insurance
companies and other health care organizations.
"The Wexford-Mercy PHO has always been interested in finding new ways to
better leverage data for improving patient care and the quality of our
services," said Victor Sztengel, executive director at Wexford-Mercy PHO.
"The WellCentive system will help us better organize our data and apply
quality indicators to administrative and clinical information to help our
physicians improve both short- and long-term patient outcomes."
Wexford-Mercy PHO physicians will utilize the WellCentive Registry at the
point of care as well as for patient population management. The physicians
will also use the WellCentive Registry for preventive care and chronic disease
management initiatives.
"We are very pleased to welcome Wexford-Mercy PHO to the growing roster of
organizations using the WellCentive Registry around the country," said Paul
Taylor, M.D., WellCentive co-founder, CEO and medical director. "No other
health information system can deliver the features and return on investment
that are available through the WellCentive system, and we are confident that
the physicians at Wexford-Mercy PHO will find this system to be easy-to-
implement, cost-effective, and helpful for improving the quality of the
services they provide."
The WellCentive Registry combines the capabilities of a Web-based point-
of-care patient registry system with custom interfacing, customizable alerts,
targeted patient outreach, comprehensive reporting tools, secure messaging
features and direct reporting of outcomes to payers.
About Wexford-Mercy PHO
Founded in 1993, Wexford-Mercy PHO is a not for profit Physician Hospital
Organization based in Cadillac, Michigan. The Wexford-Mercy PHO consists of
primary care physicians, specialists, and ancillary providers who work with
Mercy Hospital in Cadillac to provide quality healthcare to residents across
Northern Michigan. For more information, call 231-876-7139.
About WellCentive
WellCentive is a health information technology company, which offers
comprehensive Web-based preventative care and chronic disease management
solutions with industry-leading capabilities. The WellCentive Registry is an
all-patient registry system that can be used at the point of care and can be
interfaced with various disparate data sources, such as laboratories, EMR's,
billing, and scheduling systems, and with disparate data recipients, such as
payers for pay for performance (P4P) initiatives and CMS for the PQRI program.
In addition, WellCentive systems offer a comprehensive set of reporting tools
that allow the user to design and generate a wide variety of standard and
user-specified reports in a host of formats, including charts, graphs and
gauges.
For more information, visit www.wellcentive.com.
SOURCE WellCentive, LLC
