Optum
Optum is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to helping make the health care system work better for everyone. At Optum, we deliver integrated, intelligent solutions that strive to modernize the health system and improve population health.

We have over 30 years of experience in managing populations, aligning care teams and engaging patients to be active participants in their health. We apply best-in-class analytics, technology and service capabilities to enhance financial performance, improve quality and increase consumers' satisfaction with the health care system.

Visit www.optum.com/ACO for more information.

ArborMetrix
ArborMetrix (arbormetrix.com) provides a unique, cloud-based platform for performance measurement and clinical intelligence in acute and specialty care. Founded by leading clinical and economic researchers, ArborMetrix solutions deliver the first ever multi-specialty solution with rigorous clinical data analysis and actionable business intelligence that incorporates advanced risk and reliability adjustments. Our target markets include: plans and at-risk entities focused on cost considerations; hospitals and hospital systems looking to identify variation in care while improving clinical value, and specialty societies focused on improving patient care quality. Visit arbormetrix.com or contact us at 734-661-7949.

Davis Wright Tremaine
Those of us in the Davis Wright Tremaine health care practice group devote nearly all of our time to industry-specific matters. This allows us to develop niche practices within the field that serve needs unique to the health care market. We also understand the business issues and regulatory developments that affect health care delivery and compliance, and as a unified team we can match the attorney with the niche expertise that best addresses client needs. For more information visit our website at www.DWT.com.

McKesson
The business of healthcare - from how care is delivered to how it is paid for - is rapidly evolving. By partnering with McKesson, your organization can improve patient outcomes through better care coordination, collaboration and management - while making sustainable performance improvements that drive financial health.

Our population management solutions help you optimize care quality at the individual patient and population levels - while helping you reduce medical and pharmacy costs. McKesson can supply the healthcare analytics tools you need to reduce gaps in care, improve compliance with quality measures and ultimately mitigate the clinical and financial risk associated with your value-based contracts.

McKesson's team is well suited to help you perfect an information-based culture of decision making. Whatever your business needs and challenges, we deliver practical expertise, proven solutions and a trusted partnership to help you succeed.

For more information on our services/solutions please visit: www.mckesson.com/populationhealth

Orion Health Inc.
Founded in 1993 in Auckland, New Zealand, Orion Health is the only global, privately-owned eHealth technology company. With an inherent ability to interconnect a wide variety of healthcare information systems, Orion Health has become the world's leading provider of health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions. Today, Orion Health products and solutions are implemented in more than 30 countries, used by hundreds of thousands of clinicians, and help facilitate care for tens of millions of patients. Clinicians, provider facilities and OEM partners rely on Orion Health to facilitate data exchange between hospitals, health systems, accountable care organizations, health plans, HIEs, and affiliated providers and medical devices, resulting in improved care coordination, increased cost savings and efficiencies, and enhanced quality of care. In the U.S., Orion Health™ Collaborative Care (formerly Orion Health HIE) provides the technology backbone for private, state and regional HIEs across the country. Orion Health Rhapsody® Integration Engine is used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and nearly every state and local health departments for public health reporting. For more information, visit www.orionhealth.com. Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte
ConvergeHEALTH brings powerful, demonstrated analytics platforms and data models from Recombinant by Deloitte, advanced proprietary and open source analytics, content and benchmarks through collaboration with industry leaders and deep experiences from Deloitte's Life Sciences and Health Care consulting practice to help our clients survive and thrive in the new paradigm of value-based, personalized medicine. Visit us at www.converge-health.com.

PartnerRe
PartnerRe continues the strong tradition of providing tailored, effective risk solutions for medical exposures through its Health Division. Its broad portfolio of products and services includes HMO and medical reinsurance, employer and provider excess of loss insurance, its PULSE + Plus™ Medical Management Program as well as customized programs addressing ACOs, CO-OPs, insurance exchange health plans, specialty carve-outs and bundled payment providers. PartnerRe has unsurpassed underwriting, actuarial and medical management expertise backed by superior financial strength and risk-management knowledge. Our team has been providing client focused risk solutions for 20 years. Visit us at www.PartnerRe.com/health.

Veritas
At Veritas, we provide healthcare organizations innovative solutions customized to navigate the vexing challenges resulting from new healthcare initiatives. By deploying a truly integrated delivery system, our clients mitigate their exposure to problems associated with utilizing multiple standalone systems. The Veritas solution is founded on providing clients access to real time data analytics which allow for the best allocation of the healthcare organization's internal resources. The analytics then provide for a targeted patient mentoring solution, which will guide patients through their care continuum. This ensures that the basics and complexities of managed interventions are executed flawlessly. In addition, Veritas has developed patient engagement tools which incentivize the patient to become a stakeholder in their wellness continuum. The Veritas solution maximizes positive patient outcomes while exceeding clients' internal goals.

To see how Veritas can help you remain innovative, profitable and reputable, please contact us at 1-855-715-6400.

www.veritasmrs.com

ZeOmega
Founded in 2001, ZeOmega provides technical solutions to facilitate collaboration among healthcare stakeholders -- payers, providers, and value-based healthcare organizations. This enables them to coordinate disparate healthcare management strategies, which lowers costs, streamlines efficiencies, and improves care quality, provider performance, and patient satisfaction -- primary tenets of recent healthcare reform legislation.

ZeOmega's deep domain expertise and comprehensive understanding of complex population health challenges allows us to deliver high-value strategic solutions that integrate workflow, analytics, content, and communication capabilities. By consistently meeting customer expectations and project benchmarks, ZeOmega has earned a sterling reputation in the industry for responsiveness and reliability.

For more information, please visit www.zeomega.com, or call 214-618-9880.

ACO Business News
ACO Business News (http://aishealth.com/marketplace/aco-business-news) is the premier newsletter covering industry activity in designing and creating ACOs, the results being achieved, and insight and guidance into ACO regs. It is published by Atlantic Information Services, a Washington, DC-based specialized information provider that has served health care executives and managers for more than 25 years. Visit www.AISHealth.com to view AIS's extensive line of industry news and free resources.

At Home Support - Proven Advanced Illness Management Solution
At Home Support is an independent not for profit subsidiary of Hospice of Michigan providing a unique delivery model that is neither home care nor hospice, but a home-based delivery model with an advanced illness management focus. The program provides 24/7 access to professionals for education, counseling, and home visits at times to families and caregivers when needed most -- times of medical crisis occurring after hours, on weekends or during holidays. At its most basic level, At Home Support provides patients with an inter-disciplinary team of RNs, Social Workers and Aides who can benefit from palliative and psychosocial services. At Home Support offers a continuum of proven Advanced Illness Management solutions for the sickest seriously ill patients and their exhausted caregivers.

www.hom.org

Athena Forum Institute
What's your ACO Workforce Strategy?
Athena Forum Institute.com® is a 6,000 page online CE course curriculum dedicated to improving core competencies of ACO care coordinators. Our clinical courses are aligned with Medicare's Patient Quality Measures and can improve the ACO's chances of renewing the ACO contract award in follow on years. Athena Forum is a Management Tool whereby care directors assign our courses to the team to elevate core competencies for tele-health coaching of seniors. Our 200 courses are rated 94.5% by 15,000 care managers nationwide. Clients include Allina Health, Beacon Health, Intermountain Health, SutterHealth and many others. www.athenaforum.com.
Tom Rasmussen, CEO & Publisher, Athena Forum, LLC, Rockville, Maryland, 301-279-2160

Boston Heart Diagnostics
Boston Heart Diagnostics is a heart health management company providing integrated diagnostic and patient management solutions that are advancing cardiovascular disease risk assessment, monitoring and treatment. Our goal is to predict, prevent, manage and reverse cardiovascular disease by vastly improving patient assessment and management.

Our unique approach, which includes proprietary tests and the application of cardio-informatics, unlocks information not available through any other laboratory. We go beyond test results by providing a comprehensive cardiovascular disease risk assessment and personalized treatment plan for each patient, as well as support tools to guide positive lifestyle and nutrition changes that can impact heart health. www.bostonheartdiagnostics.com.

ClinLogica
ClinLogica is leading new approaches in preventative medicine and individualized patient outcomes. Whether you are an ACO, a Skilled Nursing Facility / Rehabilitation Center or a Home Healthcare Agency, ClinLogica pulls data from your existing EMRs and other data sources to support quality control and clinical operation management. By integrating the records of multiple providers, ClinLogica manages "the gap" in care - reducing risk and errors. By analyzing data from its powerful data warehouse, it gives a 3-dimensional view that provides actionable clinical recommendations to ensure optimal patient care even for the most complex patients. It does this by comparing treatments against evidence based standards and outputs a streamlined graphical web-based display that is quickly and easily read and understood by all stake holders to immediately detect inconsistencies in care. ClinLogica provides additional eyes on patient management. Contact ClinLogica at 844.4.LOGICA or visit www.clinlogica.com for more information.

Edifecs, Inc.
An industry leader since 1996, Edifecs provides global healthcare information technology that reduces administrative cost, improves revenue sustainability, and increases collaboration and operational performance among health organizations, insurers, pharmacy benefit management companies, and other trading partners.

Today, more than 250 healthcare customers use Edifecs technology to unify financial, clinical and administrative transactions from multiple channels, while automating manual business processes such as enrollment, claims and payments management. Edifecs' solutions and services support international and domestic compliance for HIPAA, Operating Rules and ICD-10. Edifecs' supply chain management solutions also support over 50 general industry customers.

Edifecs is headquartered in Bellevue, WA with operations internationally. For more information, please visit www.edifecs.com.

Focused Medical Analytics (FMA)
Focused Medical Analytics (FMA) offers structured, repeatable services in clinical analytics and physician engagement that drive appropriate changes in physician care patterns, and help accountable care organizations (ACOs) improve the quality and the total cost of care for the patient population. The Blueprint C|Q™ methodology identifies areas of high clinical variation as a means to reduce the underuse and/or overuse of medical services. FMA received a U.S. patent for its clinical variation analytic process in 2010. MedEngage™ is FMA's portfolio of training, coaching and intervention tools and techniques used to successfully engage physicians in change. Other advanced services in patient care leakage reporting, multi-payer claims standardization, and practice group/individual measurement reporting are also offered. FMA is known for achieving results through actionable data, and an open, respectful approach with physicians. FMA was founded in 2005 as a spin out from a large physician association. It is led by Dr. Howard Beckman, a nationally recognized expert in variation analysis, and physician and ACO engagement. For more information, contact Mike Howard at 585.698.0417 or visit www.fma-us.com.

Geneia
Geneia specializes in the development of advanced clinical, analytical, and technical solutions for the health care industry. Our dedicated team of physicians, nurses, technologists, and business professionals is focused on delivering innovative products and services that drive improved cost, quality, and access to care. Geneia's diverse range of products and services help health plans, hospitals, health care professionals, brokers, employers, and consumers succeed in today's rapidly evolving health care environment.

We created the Theon suite of products - an innovative and scalable analytics platform - to deliver the meaningful and actionable information necessary for all stakeholders within accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other risk-based models to make informed quality and cost decisions.

Through The Geneia Institute, we offer innovative, skills-based education to leaders, managers, and care team members working in ACOs, patient-centered medical homes, and other emerging care models that require population health management expertise.

For more information, visit www.geneia.com.

Health-Lynx
Health-Lynx was formed by QualCare, Inc. in 2012 to support hospitals and provider organizations develop and implement accountable care organizations in the post-PPACA marketplace. Health-Lynx is exclusively dedicated to supporting providers' participation in alternative payment models with commercial, self-insured, and governmental payers: including the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP).

To date, Health-Lynx has drafted and submitted 10+ successful applications to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the MSSP program. Serving as the data intermediary and primary liaison with CMS for four ACOs, Health-Lynx currently manages over $2.5 Billion in Medicare FFS claims for over 150,000 unique Medicare FFS beneficiaries.

In addition to the administration of MSSPs, Health-Lynx has also launched and managed 6+ Employee Health Plan (commercial) ACOs. These engagements range from Pay-for-Performance – focusing solely on quality metric performance, to Shared Savings models which require advanced financial modeling and predictive statistics.

For more information, visit us at http://www.health-lynx.com/

Healthwise
Since 1975 our singular mission has been to help people make better health decisions. The Healthwise mission, combined with our innovative spirit, leads to revolutionary solutions that improve the impact of health education. Our focus has benefitted our clients and the people they serve. Today our solution for accountable care extends the reach of our exceptional health information and interactive tools. The Healthwise® Patient Engagement Solution for Accountable Care has the power to transform medical data into health education interventions that are delivered to individual patients at the point of care and beyond. That means not only can you engage one patient at a time, but you can also activate a whole population of patients over a period of time. Automatically deliver the specific education patients need, when they need it, on any device. Plus the entire care team shares a view of patient engagement never seen before. One Voice. One View. One patient education solution from Healthwise. www.healthwise.org.

Honeywell
Honeywell's advanced telehealth solutions can be used where patients live, work, and play, allowing them to lead productive, uninterrupted lives.

Our LifeStream Management Suite provides flexible, customized solutions that streamline clinical workflows, and improve care coordination. And the robust reporting and analytical tools enable care providers to access and analyze patient data, in order to justify telehealth program expenses and quantify outcomes.

Our differentiated offering enables care providers to efficiently monitor their patients -- ensuring patient's peace of mind -- and extending care beyond hospital walls. The result is better patient care and improved clinical and financial outcomes.

To learn more about Honeywell's telehealth solutions, please visit our website www.hommed.com or contact us at (888) 353-5440.

ICLOPS
ICLOPS helps health care providers succeed under value-based health care by turning better patient outcomes into revenues. As a boutique company founded in 2002 to perform quality measurement and patient outreach, ICLOPS Registry solutions support clinical integration, PQRS, ACOs, and population health. ICLOPS customized client registry solutions blend highly sophisticated technology with consultation by top tier professionals. Optimize the risks and rewards of Medicare, Medicaid and commercial reimbursement mechanisms with PQRS Consults, PQRS Reporting, or Population Health with Grand Rounds. For more information, please visit www.iclops.com.

iHealth Frontier (iHF)
iHealth Frontier (iHF) is a healthcare infrastructure and analytics company based in Silicon Valley delivering patient-centric software solutions for improving healthcare outcomes. iHF's iCare Management Suite of applications addresses the needs of key stakeholders in the care continuum, thereby "Perfecting Patient Physician Partnership".

iHealth Frontier's iCare Management Suite for ACOs delivers healthcare infrastructure and analytics software to connect providers besides predictive analytics to identify the high-risk patients. Developed in collaboration with physicians, it leverages the analytical rules and care-protocols to proactively engage the patients and improve outcomes.

Built with physician and technologist's collaboration, iHF's comprehensive solution for ACOs improves the population health and lowers the cost by actionable insights.

Please visit www.ihealthfrontier.com for more information.

Inovalon
Inovalon is a leading data analytics technology company that combines advanced data analytics with highly targeted interventions to achieve meaningful impact in clinical and quality outcomes, utilization, and financial performance across the healthcare landscape. Inovalon's unique achievement of value is delivered through the effective progression of Turning Data into Insight, and Insight into Action®. Large proprietary datasets, advanced integration technologies, sophisticated predictive analytics, and deep subject matter expertise deliver a seamless, end-to-end platform of technology and nationwide operations that bring the benefits of big data and large-scale analytics to the point of care. Driven by data, Inovalon uniquely identifies gaps in care, quality, data integrity, and financial performance -- while also bringing to bear the unique capabilities to resolve them. Touching more than 540,000 physicians, 220,000 clinical facilities, and more than 140 million Americans, this differentiating combination provides a powerful solution suite that drives high-value impact, improving quality and economics for health plans, ACOs, hospitals, physicians, patients, and researchers. For more information visit www.inovalon.com.

Insignia Health
Insignia Health partners with leading health systems, hospitals, insurers and pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. and abroad to license and implement the Patient Activation Measure® (PAM®).

Backed by over 150 peer-reviewed and validated research studies, PAM enables healthcare organizations to better identify and treat individuals based on their ability to manage their own health. And when patients are more 'activated,' they are healthier, have lower costs, and use fewer health care resources.

Flourish® from Insignia Health is the first online health education program tailored specifically to an individual's health activation level and self-management ability. Anchored by the Patient Activation Measure, this unique program helps individuals increase their knowledge, skills and confidence, allowing them to progress along the health activation continuum at their own pace.

Researchers and health professional consider Insignia's PAM products the gold standard in assessing and increasing patient activation.

For more information, contact Larry Diamond or visit www.insigniahealth.com.

NextGen Healthcare
NextGen Healthcare delivers integrated collaborative care solutions that help providers easily exchange data with internal and external care teams to garner a 360-degree patient view. Data shared with invested care team members drive patient engagement 3/4 the foundation of effective collaborative care. With improved clinical and financial outcomes and enhanced reporting capabilities, providers see more favorable payer reimbursements and risk sharing agreements. Our solutions promote long-term success relative to a value-based system.

Our suite of Care Coordination tools enables efficient and reliable medical care management among multiple providers across a care team. Our Collaborative Care Transformation Team offers a variety of consulting and support services that help clients achieve PCMH recognition or ACO accreditation. In fact, NextGen Healthcare clients include more than 34 percent of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and more than 2,300 Patient Centered Medical Home providers. Learn more at www.nextgen.com/AccountableCare.

Pharos Innovations
Pharos Innovations is a technology enabled services provider, committed to assisting health organizations to implement and scale highly impactful population management programs, and achieve shared savings results. Founded by a Johns Hopkins trained cardiologist, our organization engages patients in their daily self-care and reporting -- the optimal path to impacting patient behavior and hospitalizations and readmissions. Our company has helped nationally recognized and leading healthcare organizations achieve unprecedented levels of clinical and financial performance improvement.

For more information about Pharos Innovations visit www.pharosinnovations.com or call Todd Shannon, Vice President of Sales, at 224-688-0802.

Rise Health
Rise Health provides payers, provider organizations and healthcare information technology partners with the tools necessary to achieve the "Triple Aim" of healthcare: improve quality, patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs. The Rise Health Solution Suite includes the Ascend Enterprise Platform delivering the ability to integrate various data sources into an easily usable data warehouse, Stratus Population Health Analytics a comprehensive historical and predictive analytics platform and the Cirrus Patient Relationship Manager driving usable clinical information to the point of contact with the patient. Combined the Rise Health provides the ability to activate patients, closing care gaps and improving the efficiency of physician practices. To learn more, visit www.risehealth.com.

Stryker Performance Solutions
Stryker Performance Solutions helps hospitals and physicians achieve clinical, operational and financial goals. By analyzing metrics and optimizing services and systems, we help improve patient outcomes and efficiencies. We implement improvements for key indicators (i.e. LOS, readmissions, satisfaction, complications, volume, reform strategies, and hospital and physician). The Center for Advanced RecoveryTM designates a network of high-performing facilities for joint replacement and spine, reflecting stringent measuring processes, high standards and results. We offer patient-centric models across the continuum with a focus on care coordination and patient and family education. The goal: improve patient satisfaction, increasing word-of-mouth referrals, volume and reputation.

With higher quality outcomes and increasing volume, hospitals may improve reimbursements.

Focusing on physician and provider economics, we help increase volume and reduce costs through standardized care models and process improvements, which can drive better alignment and help customers thrive in healthcare reform.

Stop by or visit www.marshallsteele.com, (800) 616-1406.

URAC
URAC promotes healthcare quality through accreditation and education programs that validate an organization's commitment to excellence and accountability. URAC's Patient Centered Medical Home, Clinical Integration and Accountable Care programs provide a flexible, educational approach to assist provider organizations as they move from coordinated to integrated care. URAC's robust standards assist healthcare organizations seeking to ensure quality and participate in pay-for-performance payment models. The standards serve as a roadmap that empowers providers to advance care coordination, integration, and care management of patients to improve quality and healthcare outcomes and control cost. For more information visit www.urac.org or call 202-326-3943.