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SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS

We thank the following Grantors and Exhibitors for their support in helping to make this conference possible.

GRANTORS
PLATINUM

Aetna
Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 36.1 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional, voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities, Medicaid health care management services and health information technology services. Our customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and expatriates. For more information, see www.aetna.com.

SILVER

Optum
At Optum, we have over 30 years of experience in managing populations, aligning care teams and engaging patients to be active participants in their health. We offer best-in-class analytics and unsurpassed technology capabilities. We use these solutions to improve population health, enhance financial performance, improve quality and, ultimately, increase consumers' satisfaction with the health system. www.optum.com.

BRONZE

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.


PwC
PwC's Health Industries Group (www.pwc.com/us/healthindustries) is a leading advisor to public and private organizations across the health industries, including healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals, health and life sciences, payers, employers, academic institutions and non-health organizations with significant presence in the health market. Follow PwC Health Industries at http://twitter.com/PwCHealth.


EXHIBITORS

Abaxis
The Piccolo xpress™ portable point-of-care chemistry analyzer brings comprehensive CLIA waived diagnostic testing capabilities to physician offices. With easy 3-step operation, the Piccolo Xpress™ delivers lab-accurate chemistry results from 100uL of whole blood, serum or plasma in minutes. The Piccolo xpress™ uses a broad and unique menu of CLIA waived, self-contained, single-use reagent panels which includes comprehensive metabolic, lipids, liver, kidney, electrolyte and glucose monitoring. Together, this menu allows doctors to make more informed treatment decisions, reduce the amount of time spent preparing and reviewing lab results, and increase their office efficiency and billable hours. The Piccolo xpress™ is virtually maintenance free and contains built-in intelligent quality control (iQC™), on-board calibration and bi-directional data sharing with EMR or LIS systems. The Piccolo is the smallest reference-grade chemistry analyzer available today and provides results on sticky-backed thermal roll-tape, suitable for convenient placement in the patient file. For more information visit www.piccoloxpress.com or call 510-675-6500.


APP Advisors
APP Advisors is the consulting arm of Advocate Physician Partners - a joint venture between Advocate Health Care and more than 4,000 physicians on the medical staffs of Advocate hospitals. Advocate Physician Partners is recognized nationally as a leader in clinical integration and has provided guidance to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as well as other national organizations. Advocate Physician Partners' Clinical Integration Symposiums are attended by clinical and administrative health care professionals from prestigious organizations from across the nation. Since 2008, over 200 organizations and over 500 health care professionals have attended an APP Clinical Integration Symposium.

APP Advisors offers clients coaching in clinical, operational, legal and financial management of a clinically integrated physician network as well as access to a comprehensive set of tools, techniques and technologies developed by Advocate Physician Partners, the leader in clinical integration program development. For more information, please visit us at www.appadvisorsonline.com.


ARGO
Founded in 1980, ARGO has grown into a recognized software solutions partner of choice for eight of the nation's top 10 financial institutions. ARGO leverages core strengths in analytics, mission critical software, workflow automation and big data in order to provide innovative solutions for the financial services and healthcare industries. ARGO's Entity Management solutions deliver accurate, consolidated entity records and comprehensive entity record linkage in an accurate and accessible Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI). ARGO's EMPI solution offers best-in-class functionality and services for entity resolution, efficient evaluation and merging of duplicate patient records, and effective management insight around activity into the EMPI. For more information, please visit us at www.argodata.com.


Best Doctors
Founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School professors, Best Doctors, Inc. is transforming and improving health care. The global company, headquartered in Boston, serves more than 30 million members in every major region of the world. Best Doctors works with the best five percent of doctors to find the right diagnoses and right treatments, and seamlessly integrates its trusted services with employers' other health-related benefits. In addition to its clinical advocacy in the US, Best Doctors designs and implements international insurance programs that help people be sure they get the best care, and the right care. For further information, visit Best Doctors at www.bestdoctors.com or call (800) 223-5003.


CERECONS
CERECONS™, a leader in Healthcare IT for the Managed Care market, provides clinical decision support, analytics, integration, population management, patient care coordination and patient portals via innovative, private cloud-based technology. CERECONS software solutions dramatically increase the efficiency of healthcare delivery and create an essential IT framework necessary for a successful, sustainable ACO. For more information visit Cerecons.com, call 714.998.0866.


Chronic Care Management (CCM)
Chronic Care Management (CCM) is advancing a unique cost effective model to manage high risk patients between visits to the doctor's office. The "Engaged Patient Model" combines next generation real-time wireless vital sign monitoring with personal phone support focusing on care plan adherence. The Virtual Health Check (VHC) program integrates Blue Tooth wireless technology with Qualcomm Life's 2Net Hub to provide real-time blood pressure and blood glucose management at a fraction of current costs. In addition, VHC provides health centers with efficient "cloud based" patient relationship management software to deliver biweekly patient contact focusing on care plan adherence. The following web sites provide the technical backbone of a unique and culturally appropriate approach to between visit care:

The Engaged Patient Model provides next generation patient outreach for ACO's. It focuses on adherence, is scalable, is far less expensive, is personal and automates the patient contact process to keep patients engaged in their care. For more information contact Joe Seringer, Office: (800) 307-3080, Cell (210) 286-4114.


Deloitte
Deloitte's Health Sciences practices bring fresh ideas and groundbreaking concepts to clients and industry movers and shakers alike. Whether it's market innovations in biotechnology or providing exceptional counsel in the creation of corporate health plans, Deloitte offers a distinctive menu of professional services delivered in an integrated, collaborative approach that cuts across all segments of the health plan, health provider and life sciences industries.

Our clients demand top value and unbending commitment from us. We demand nothing less of ourselves in working to become their trusted business advisors.

For more information, please contact our Accountable Care Service line leaders - John Keith, Bob Williams, or Jim Whisler - or visit www.deloitte.com/us/acs.


Intelligent Healthcare
Intelligent Healthcare Intelligent Healthcare is the most cost-effective, easily deployed foundation for accountable care and demonstrating meaningful use. With Intelligent Healthcare's secure Web-based registries, organizations achieve significant breakthroughs in:

  • Accountable Care
  • Clinical Integration
  • Pay for Performance
  • PQRS reporting
  • Medicare STAR reporting
  • Medicare's Shared Savings Program, and
  • Medicare Advantage HCC tracking and management.

Intelligent Healthcare's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach solves one of a provider organization's most vexing challenges in demonstrating meaningful use -- collecting, integrating, and managing patient data. Intelligent Healthcare is pleased to be the choice of Advocate Physician Partners nationally recognized Clinical Integration program. For further information, please contact Faye Jarow at (310) 458-6966.


MedVentive
While healthcare was evolving the concept of an accountable care organization, MedVentive was busy operating as one. MedVentive was founded as the Provider Service Network (PSN) in 1997 by the CareGroup Healthcare System, an integrated, at-risk network of 4,500 physicians and eight hospitals that cared for more than 450,000 at-risk patients.

MedVentive provides the tools and experience providers need to address two key issues they face as they evolve into an ACO: understanding patient populations and being financially at risk for the quality and cost of care. MedVentive Population Manager provides the IT infrastructure needed to support FTC-required clinical integration and overall population management. MedVentive Risk Manager provides the analytic platform to manage multi-payer risk contracts. Learn more at www.medventive.com or call 781-290-2511.


MZI HealthCare
For over 20 years, MZI HealthCare has collaborated with healthcare organizations to deliver innovative, affordable software technology solutions. These innovative solutions automate and manage a wide range of reimbursement, operational and care management data, which provide providers and administrators with access to critical healthcare information. MZI HealthCare's interoperable ACO solution includes a full-featured automated platform with reporting, analytics and predictive modeling with access to real-time patient data and demographics, reminders and alerts. For more information visit www.mzihc.com or contact Greg Gootee at 407-786-6258.


The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. Since its founding in 1990, NCQA has been a central figure in driving improvement throughout the health care system, helping to elevate the issue of health care quality to the top of the national agenda.

NCQA has helped to build consensus around important health care quality issues by working with large employers, policymakers, doctors, patients and health plans to decide what's important, how to measure it, and how to promote improvement. That consensus is invaluable -- transforming our health care system requires the collected will and resources of all these constituencies and more. For more information please visit us at www.ncqa.org or 1100 13th Street, NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005, Telephone: (202) 955-3500, Fax: (202) 955-3599, Customer Support: (888) 275-7585.


Patient Point™
Patient Point™ provides comprehensive technology solutions that automate the coordination of care. Leveraging web, online, and point of care technologies, our HealthSync™ Care Coordination Platform supports physicians as they begin their transformation into accountable care organizations. With interfaces to multiple data sources including EMR's, PHR's, and payer clinical systems, Patient Point's HealthSync™ Care Coordination Platform can engage the patient pre-service, during the office visit, and post care; extending physician access and closing any identified care gaps automatically. Innovative care management solutions that integrate information across care settings, while truly engaging the patient to improve population health, are imperative to quality outcomes and cost reductions. The HealthSync™ platform is proven to prevent adverse events, streamline coordination of care, and drive higher quality and better adherence.

For more information, visit us at www.patientpoint.com.


Pharos Innovations
Pharos Innovations is a company dedicated to delivering innovative solutions to facilitate the management of chronic conditions. Pharos Innovations assists clients in achieving next generation clinical and financial performance improvement. Our device-free remote monitoring improves care coordination and drives clinical improvement and savings by averting unnecessary hospitalizations. Through proactive monitoring and identification of clinical deterioration, Pharos expands the reach, efficiency and effectiveness of complex condition management programs. Pharos Innovations provides services to Physician Group Practices, hospitals and insurance companies across the United States. For more information about Pharos Innovations, visit www.pharosinnovations.com or call Kelly Keegan, Executive Vice President of Sales at 847-881-8705.


PSCI Solutions
PSCI Solutions is an innovative, emerging provider of advanced quality analytics and decision support technologies for hospital systems, IDNs, medical homes and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). PSCI brings acute and ambulatory financial, operational, clinical and patient risk data together to help model Quality-of-Care improvement opportunities in context of costs. PSCI delivers population state-of-health (SOH) stratification, quality-cost visibility and "what-if" predictive modeling for improving overall healthcare provider performance to meet Triple Aim and pay-for-performance objectives. For more information, please visit www.PSCIsolutions.com or call (469) 519-1043.


RBS Re
RBS Re, an HM Insurance Group Company, provides reinsurance and stop loss solutions to Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), Capitated Providers, and Insurance Companies for their fully-insured and self-funded membership. As an HM Insurance Group Company, RBS Re's reinsurance and stop loss products are backed by the financial strength and stability of companies owned by the HM Insurance Group. The insurance companies of HM Insurance Group hold "Excellent" ratings from A.M. Best Company, one of the nation's oldest and most respected rating agencies. The Excellent ratings reflect the company's ability to meet the financial obligations of its policyholders. For more information, please visit us at www.rbsre.com or Contact: Ken Knopp at (615) 844-6190.

7301 SW 57 Court, Suite 450, South Miami, FL 33143, (305) 262-2662


Sandlot Solutions
Sandlot Solutions was founded in 2006 as Sandlot, LLC by a group of practicing physicians to create the health information exchange (HIE) that everyone had been promising for years. Sandlot Solutions creates first choice, top-of-mind Health Information Exchange (HIE) systems and service solutions essential to the foundation of Accountable Care Organizations that benefit patients, providers, and their communities. As medical professionals we realized all that was missing from existing HIE solutions. They forced doctors to change how they work. They limited choices. They provided health information that was system-based not patient-based. We knew there had to be a simpler, far superior way to bring technology to medicine. Our solutions include all the connection, interface technology and experienced consultation that are essential to building a true information exchange and achieving all the benefits they promise. For more information please visit our website at www.sandlotsolutions.com.


SentiCare
SentiCare's PillStation uses a familiar 7-Day PillTray system providing audio and visual reminders to ensure that patients take the correct medications at the correct times. PillStation:

    Digitally scans patient's medication
    Compares each scan to active list of patient's medications
    Uses live advisors to help shape/change behavior toward patient self- management
    Customized medication reminders for discharge instructions

Ideal for patients with CHF, Depression, Diabetes and Chronic Diseases - Patient Medical Homes/ ACOs/ Hospitals / Physician Groups can save millions of dollars per year offering SentiCare's PillStation to patients to significantly reduce re-hospitalization and acute care visits. For more information, please visit us at www.SentiCare.com.


Sg2
For over a decade, Sg2 has equipped health care leadership teams around the globe with practical expertise to navigate the ever changing landscape of health care. Our expert-led, future-focused forecasts, strategic analytics, education, consulting and intelligence empower clients to achieve smart growth and improve clinical performance across the continuum of care. Presently, over 1,400 individual organizations receive Sg2's health care analytics, intelligence, consulting and educational services. These organizations are spread throughout the US, Europe and Asia.

For more information visit www.sg2.com or call (847) 779-5600.


Treo Solutions
Treo Solutions - The Healthcare Transformation Company - is based in Troy, NY, with offices in Kansas City, Denver and San Francisco. Since 2002, Treo has been working with payers and providers in the design, execution, and management of payment programs, care-management activities, and the analytics that support population-based models of care.

Over its 10-year history, Treo has assisted numerous clients, including integrated delivery systems and Pioneer ACOs, state agencies and private payers to develop accountable care programs. This work has included the development of population- and value-based purchasing contracts, as well as the delivery of supporting analytics for those agreements as part of a software-as-a-service offering. Treo's government and private payer clients represent more than 38 million covered lives, the claims data for which provide a benchmark data set created by Treo to support comparative analyses used in developing healthcare transformation programs. For more information, please visit us at www.treosolutions.com.


U.S. Advisors
U.S. Advisors is a national reinsurance/insurance brokerage and consulting firm dedicated to the Managed Care Industry. Our deep expertise in healthcare since 1984 helps clients manage their risks, protect their capital and receive leading edge advice. We are a privately held firm serving over 4,000,000 lives nationally. We strive to bring innovative solutions and risk advice to best support our clients and deliver bottom-line value through economic and operational excellence. As a leader in this field, we offer unique services, models and analysis to assist HMOs, ACOs, PHOs, Provider Medical Groups and Employer Groups for reinsurance and believe we are well prepared to advise and assist our valued clients. For more information please visit us a www.advisorsus.com or contact Terry Chesser, ARM Principal 783 Old Hickory Blvd. Suite 310 West Brentwood, TN 37027 ph: (615) 263-5901.


Valence Health
Valence Health delivers patient-centered, data-driven solutions for quality care and population management. Recognized as a market leader in the area of clinical integration, Valence Health offers unique solutions that combine data aggregation and sophisticated data analytics with web-based reporting tools. We also have an extensive history of managing risk, and can successfully position your organization for future payment reforms such as bundled payments, medical home models, and ACOs. For more information, please contact us at 312.277.4801 or visit our website at www.valencehealth.com.


Verisk Health
Verisk Health, a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK), helps organizations identify, manage, and mitigate healthcare risk to improve quality, reduce costs, and maximize profitability. Our data-driven risk assessment technologies and business decision analytics enable clients to proactively seize opportunities for improving clinical, financial, and performance results. Our solutions optimize the efficiency of key business objectives, including care management; risk identification and stratification; HEDIS compliance; benefit program measurement; fraud, waste, and abuse prevention; payment accuracy; and revenue cycle management. For more information, please visit www.veriskhealth.com or call (781) 693-3700.


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