ZeOmega and McKesson Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Payer-Provider Collaboration

PLANO, Texas, May 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- ZeOmega^® Inc. today announced an agreement to integrate ZeOmega's Jiva™ population health management solution with McKesson's InterQual^® Connect™ authorization and connectivity solution.

Jiva delivers high-value, strategic solutions enabling payers and care-delivery organizations to improve individual health and provider performance.  McKesson InterQual Connect is the first cloud-based medical review service with authorization connectivity, ushering in a new streamlined approach to utilization management. When integrated into Jiva, the power of cloud connectivity is unleashed to give payers and providers an efficient workflow to automate authorization—all without ever leaving Jiva, making it fast, easy, and cost-effective to implement and deploy.

Currently, thousands of providers use their payer's Jiva provider portal to submit authorization requests and medical necessity review. These organizations often also use McKesson's InterQual^® Criteria, as part of their internal care management and other clinical systems to help establish evidence-based appropriateness for the care they provide. Through this integration, providers can, with no additional effort, deliver to payers the same information they use internally to document evidence-based care. This not only eliminates redundant data entry and wastage of time for the provider, but also increases satisfaction because they are able to get real-time status information on their requests.

"Integrating InterQual Connect with Jiva gives our clients an edge by improving payer-provider collaboration, which is becoming increasing critical in the world of value-based care," said Nandini Rangaswamy, ZeOmega's co-founder, executive vice president, and chief strategy officer. "Payers benefit by having a unified authorization workflow that enables decisions based on medical necessity, company policy, administrative and other criteria using complete and accurate information at the time of determination. This not only drives greater efficiencies and better provider satisfaction but also improves ability to respond to medical necessity audits."

"We are pleased to welcome ZeOmega as our first InterQual Connect Alliance Partner," said Nilo Mehrabian, vice president of product management, Decision Management, at McKesson Health Solutions. "This integration aligns Jiva users with over 3,700 hospitals that trust InterQual Criteria, the industry's largest provider footprint for medical necessity decision support. Jiva's reach across both payer and provider organizations presents an attractive opportunity for this partnership to drive provider engagement."

About ZeOmega
Jiva™, the powerful population health platform from ZeOmega, delivers high-value, strategic solutions enabling payers and care-delivery organizations to improve individual health and provider performance. With deep domain expertise and a comprehensive understanding of complex population health challenges, ZeOmega serves as a true partner for clients, offering flexible deployment and delivery models that leverage an innovative platform designed to integrate workflow, analytics, content and communication capabilities. By consistently meeting customer expectations and project benchmarks, ZeOmega has earned a reputation for responsiveness and reliability. For more information, visit ZeOmega online or call 214-618-9880. Follow ZeOmega on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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