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PEGASYSTEMS AND MILLIMAN CARE GUIDELINES ANNOUNCE JOINT ALLIANCE TO
PROVIDE NEXT GENERATION CAPABILITIES FOR CARE MANAGEMENT
Milliman, whose evidence-based clinical guidelines are widely used by
major U.S. health plans, works with Pegasystems, the industry leader in
BPM, to deliver technologically advanced Care Management
Pegasystems
Inc., (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in Business Process Management
(BPM), and Milliman Care Guidelines, the standard-bearer in
evidence-based clinical guidelines, announced a strategic alliance
partnership that combines the two companies’
best-in-class offerings for the benefit of healthcare organizations and
their members. Pegasystems will offer seamless integration from its Care
Management Framework to Milliman’s clinical
content. This combination will allow healthcare organizations to utilize
industry-leading clinical care expertise with cutting-edge BPM
technology and automated best-practice healthcare workflow capabilities
to deliver care management services to their member populations. The
alliance will enable healthcare organizations to improve the efficiency
and quality of patient services through a single, integrated portal.
"To date, there has been no clear leader in
the care management space. Many vendors provide clinical content but
lack proven solutions on robust technology platforms,”
said Joanne Galimi, research vice president at Gartner. "A
comprehensive solution that combines standardized clinical strengths
with a sophisticated rules-based workflow solution will be a great
addition to the care management market for healthcare insurers.”
Seamless integration will be provided through Pegasystems’
Care Management Framework solution to CareWebQI®;
software that provides interactive access to evidence-based clinical
content of the Milliman Care Guidelines®.
These annually updated guideline products include Ambulatory Care,
Inpatient and Surgical Care, General Recovery Guidelines, Recovery
Facility Care, Home Care, Chronic Care Guidelines and Behavioral
Health Guidelines, enabling case workers to support appropriate
clinical decisions with evidence-based medicine across the continuum of
care. Packaged integration capabilities are expected to be available in
early 2009.
"After evaluating Pegasystems’
Care Management Framework, we were impressed by the company’s
technology and unique breadth of experience in providing workflow
process management solutions across the healthcare enterprise,”
said Scott Harris, Milliman Care Guidelines Senior Vice President of
Sales and Marketing. "Our working
relationship will make the Care Guidelines more actionable to
healthcare providers across the continuum of care, and further extends
our commitment to ensure best-practices and standards of excellence in
healthcare.”
"Care Management is being recognized as a
critical capability to improve member health while simultaneously
reducing the cost of service. This area has been underserved by
technology for too long, and the impressive response to our Care
Management Framework shows that the market is ready for comprehensive
technology solutions,” said Elizabeth Hart,
Senior Director, Healthcare Solutions for Pegasystems. "By
joining forces with Milliman Care Guidelines, we are now able to meet
the totality of our customers’ needs –
technical as well as clinical. Adding robust integration to clinical
content through Pegasystems’ rules-based BPM
engine is an important step towards fully automating processes while
ensuring the right care is given when and where it is needed.”
About Pegasystems’ Care Management
Framework (CMF)
Built on Pegasystems’ industry-leading
SmartBPM® platform, CMF is a patient-centric
business process management solution that automates the creation and
on-going improvement of personalized care management programs. By
unifying disease management, case management, and utilization management
across the healthcare enterprise, CMF gives care professionals the
ability to provide whole person care and also collaborate in real-time
with the entire patient-network. CMF can also reduce overall care
management complexity, cut utilization costs, and reduce cost of care
management program development by 40-60 percent. These efficiencies are
especially needed now as the healthcare system faces a tidal wave of
aging baby boomers, more likely to demand and respond well to proactive
care programs.
Pegasystems’ healthcare solutions are
widely-used by major healthcare organizations including three of the top
five US health plans and more than 50 percent of the Blues network,
representing over 100 million covered lives. To find out more about
Pegasystems’ healthcare offerings visit www.pega.com/industries/healthcare.
About Milliman Care Guidelines
Milliman Care Guidelines is located in Seattle, and independently
develops and produces evidence-based clinical guidelines and a variety
of software options that are used by more than 1,000 clients, including
seven of the country’s eight largest health
plans, to support the care of nearly two-thirds of US health plan
members. Covering the continuum of care, the seven-product Care
Guidelines series is updated annually by an experienced team of
clinicians. For more information, visit www.careguidelines.com.
Milliman Care Guidelines LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Milliman,
Inc. Milliman is among the world’s largest
independent actuarial and consulting firms. Founded in Seattle in 1947
as Milliman & Robertson, the company currently has 48 offices in key
locations worldwide. Milliman employs over two thousand people, with a
professional staff of more than a thousand qualified consultants and
actuaries, including specialists ranging from clinicians to economists.
The firm has consulting practices in healthcare, employee benefits,
property & casualty insurance, life insurance and financial services.
Milliman serves the full spectrum of business, financial, government,
union, education and nonprofit organizations. For further information,
visit www.milliman.com.
About Pegasystems
Pegasystems, the leader in Business Process Management, provides
software to drive revenue growth, productivity and agility for the
world's most sophisticated organizations. Customers use our
award-winning SmartBPM®
suite to improve customer service, reach new markets and boost
operational effectiveness.
Our patented SmartBPM technology makes enterprise applications easy to
build and change by directly capturing business objectives and
eliminating manual programming. SmartBPM unifies business rules and
processes into composite applications that leverage existing systems --
empowering businesspeople and IT staff to Build for Change®,
deliver value quickly and outperform their competitors.
Pegasystems’ suite is complemented by
best-practice frameworks designed for leaders in financial services,
insurance, healthcare, government, life sciences, communications,
manufacturing and other industries.
Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Pegasystems has offices in North
America, Europe and Asia. Visit us at www.pega.com.
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The information contained in this press release is not a commitment,
promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or
functionality.
The development, release and timing of any
features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of
Pegasystems, Pegasystems specifically disclaims any liability with
respect to this information.