Emdeon Expands Clinical Information Exchange Capabilities

Flexible, robust set of products and services builds upon Emdeon’s momentum in clinical information exchange

Nashville, TN /PRNewswire/ -  Emdeon Inc., a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, today announced the expansion of Emdeon Clinical Exchange™, its technology-enabled solution designed to improve business and clinical outcomes and care continuity.

Emdeon Clinical Exchange encompasses products and services that are designed to unite healthcare communities. Today, hospitals, physicians, labs, payers and pharmacies use Emdeon’s leading healthcare information network to securely exchange health information over six billion times annually. These healthcare stakeholders are demanding greater connectivity to each other and the ability to facilitate comprehensive, end-to-end clinical information exchange.

“Physicians and hospitals that have the ability to electronically connect to labs, pharmacies and managed care companies are better positioned to provide patient-centric collaborative care,” said Miriam Paramore, executive vice president for strategy and product management for Emdeon. “Our enhanced platform for comprehensive clinical information exchange can provide our customers with an even stronger foundation of integrated health information that will support new and emerging healthcare delivery models for years to come.”

The transformation of Emdeon Clinical Exchange integrates Emdeon’s electronic prescription routing, lab orders and results exchange, care alerts, medication history, clinical messaging and ONC-certified EHR* capabilities into a comprehensive SaaS-based platform. This robust collection of market-leading clinical components is designed to work with a customer’s existing systems and workflows, and therefore can help minimize financial risk by providing a relatively inexpensive alternative compared to higher cost capital-intensive solutions.

Emdeon and its affiliates help healthcare delivery organizations achieve greater efficiency, facilitate coordinated care and improve clinical outcomes. As the single largest clinical, financial and administrative health information exchange in the U.S. healthcare system, Emdeon’s network currently reaches approximately 500,000 physicians, 81,000 dentists, 60,000 pharmacies, 5,000 hospitals, 1,200 payers and 300 labs.

About Emdeon
Emdeon is a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, connecting payers, providers and patients in the U.S. healthcare system. Emdeon’s offerings integrate and automate key business and administrative functions of its payer and provider customers throughout the patient encounter. Through the use of Emdeon’s comprehensive suite of solutions, which are designed to easily integrate with existing technology infrastructures, customers are able to improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase cash flow and more efficiently manage the complex revenue and payment cycle and clinical information exchange processes. For more information, visit www.emdeon.com/clinical.

* This complete EHR is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by an ONC-ATCBin accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments. Emdeon Inc., 10/22/10, Emdeon Clinician 7.6, 1014201030691, NQF0064/PQRI128, NQF0041/PQRI110, NQF0024, NQF0028, NQF0038, NQF0059/PQRI1, NQF0064/PQRI2, NQF0061/PQRI3.