CECity Launches MedConcert® for Health Plans and ACOs at Best of Blues

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Sep 13, 2012, 12:14 ET

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CECity launched the MedConcert® cloud-based platform to Blue Cross Blue Shield executives from across the country at their 2012 Blue National Summit. MedConcert, the premier cloud-based "learning health system" platform provides a secure, HIPAA-compliant social enterprise solution that enables all stakeholders to engage in a continuous cycle of learning and improvement, to achieve the vision of high-quality, high-value health care for patients and their families.

Through MedConcert, Health Plans can develop custom applications ("Apps") to connect them to their provider and health system networks "across walls". Instead of sharing performance results periodically, health plans and their providers can now monitor and assess their performance gaps in real-time, based on a set of measures that matter, such as those contained in the CMS Medicare Advantage Star Ratings, ACO, and P4P programs. The MedConcert (patent pending) rapid learning system then dynamically links the provider's performance gaps to an extensive library of interventions for improvement from leading publishers, academic medical centers, and medical specialty societies that are focused on improving quality and safety. The MedConcert platform also aligns the Apps with the professional needs of providers, in order to lower their burden and to save them time, while developing a culture of continuous performance improvement as envisioned by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)*.

MedConcert's secure social networks link physicians and their care teams with patients, as well as a wide area network of providers across the medical neighborhood, to instantly enable care coordination, patient navigation, and patient engagement. Professionals can also connect across organizations to share best practices and communicate regarding "what works" through peer-driven quality learning and action networks, in order to drive up the quality and drive down the unnecessary cost of care.

To learn more about MedConcert and how CECity's differentiated model is transforming healthcare delivery and quality contact CECity at 1-888-669-7444 x1 or email [email protected].

About CECity
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based CECity (www.cecity.com) is the healthcare industry's leading software as a service provider of cloud-based applications for Performance Improvement, Quality Reporting, Maintenance of Certification, and Lifelong Learning.

*The new IOM report, "Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America," can be found at http://iom.edu/Reports/2012/Best-Care-at-Lower-Cost-The-Path-to-Continuously-Learning-Health-Care-in-America.aspx.

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