The Verden Group and Clinigence Team Up to Help Healthcare Providers Succeed in Care Transformation

The Verden Group selects Clinigence for its Marketplace Solutions Program, one of the few most innovative and high-quality offerings available to practices.

Nyack, NY and ATLANTA, GA, Nov 1, 2011—Clinigence, a next-generation clinical business intelligence technology vendor, announced a strategic affiliation with The Verden Group today to introduce Clinigence's collaborative software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for measuring and visualizing clinical quality, patient outcomes and cost to Verden's consulting practice clients. The Clinigence solution enables physicians and hospitals to succeed under new value-based payment and coordinated care delivery models. Through its unique cloud-based semantic collaboration, the Clinigence solution fuels a continuous cycle of improvement in staff performance and process effectiveness while accelerating the creation of best practices. 

“The market is in critical need for innovative solutions that enable healthcare providers to meet the challenges of healthcare transformation," said Susanne Madden, The Verden Group's CEO. "We help clients develop and implement strategies for business success as our healthcare system shifts to new payment and delivery models. Information technology, and in particular clinical data analytics tools, are becoming increasingly critical to our clients' success. Clinigence offers the most innovative and practical solution in the market today for monitoring clinical quality metrics and managing performance in real-time. We think our clients will be very well served by using Clinigence to translate their EMR data assets in the areas of contract compliance and future negotiations and to create business success in healthcare transformation."

"We are very proud to have been selected by The Verden Group as the recommended clinical analytics solution for their clients," said Kobi Margolin, Clinigence's CEO. "Their deep market knowledge and keen sense of clients' needs gives us great validation of the power in our technology. As we continue to roll this out to market, we are excited about the potential of our joint efforts, and eager to see our mutual clients driving successful care transformation with unprecedented confidence and ease."  

The Clinigence solution will empower Verden's clients to continuously improve their clinical staff performance and guideline compliance, adjust care delivery processes to drive better patient and financial outcomes and to maximize their benefits in value-based payment contracts, enabling them to control the quality of data in meeting pay-for-performance contracts, build successful accountable care organizations (ACOs) and patient centered medical homes (PCMHs).

About The Verden Group’s Recommended Best Practices Solutions Suite:

The Verden Group is a healthcare consulting firm that now offers a one-stop digital marketplace for physician oganizations. Verden’s new interactive Solutions Suite offers only the best solutions for the most pressing challenges physicians face today. Verden carefully selects vendors based on the best service for the lowest cost. If it’s not the ‘best practice’ or the ‘best solution’, you won’t find it in the Verden Marketplace. 

www.theverdengroup.com

About Clinigence:

Clinigence, LLC, in Atlanta, GA, is a health information technology company that develops, publishes and delivers collaborative software-as-a-service (SaaS) to help healthcare providers derive business value from clinical data and quality patient care. The Clinigence solution is tailored to the emerging needs of healthcare providers due to the shift of the US healthcare system from volume- to value-based purchasing and the growing demand for quality patient care.  

Contact: Kobi Margolin

kobi@clinigence.com

678-466-6650

www.clinigence.com

Clinigence v1.0, which met the requirements for ambulatory and inpatient modular EHR, is a collaborative, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that aggregates data from EHRs across the continuum of care and delivers actionable information to improve guideline compliance and effectiveness on patient and financial outcomes. The software offers a highly extensible library of clinical guidelines and measures, including all 44 ambulatory and 15 inpatient meaningful use clinical quality measures. The Clinigence powerful toolset includes benchmarking, trending, intervention planning and real-time tracking, population health management, process-outcomes analysis and user-customized protocols and measures.

“Our mission is to help healthcare providers translate clinical data into better care and better business. Certifying our technology helps our clients achieve both goals. We see meaningful use as the foundation on which our clients can build their capacity to succeed under new value-based payment models.  In addition to qualifying for incentive funds under ARRA, healthcare providers can leverage our software to achieve clinical integration, maximize their benefits under pay-for-performance (P4P) programs, design and implement more accountable care practices and harness collaborative technology to accelerate care transformation,” says Kobi Margolin, Clinigence’s CEO.

Drummond Group’s ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification program tests and certifies that EHRs meet the meaningful use criteria for either eligible provider or hospital technology. In turn, healthcare providers using the EHR systems of certified vendors are qualified to receive federal stimulus monies upon demonstrating meaningful use of the technology -- a key component of the federal government’s push to improve clinical care delivery through the adoption and effective use of EHRs by U.S. healthcare providers.

“The need to leverage information technology in the healthcare industry is huge – as the quality of care and efficiency benefits that come with computerization can really make a difference in the overall patient experience. We’re ready to help transform the industry by providing the sophisticated software testing services that ensure that vendors and hospitals are offering systems that are capable of meeting the meaningful use standards required to obtain incentive funds as well as the rich functionality required to move the clinical care needle forward,” says Rik Drummond, CEO of the Drummond Group. “We have been testing software for more than a decade and are ready to leverage our extensive experience handling sophisticated systems in complex industries as well as dealing with complicated technical issues such as interoperability and security.” 

Certification Details

The Clinigence v1.0 EHR Module is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by Drummond Group, an ONC-ATCB approved to certify any complete or modular EHR both ambulatory and inpatient, in 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:

Vendor name: Clinigence

Date Certified: 6/30/2011

Product Version: v1.0

Certification ID numbers: 06302011-8831-6 (Ambulatory); 06302011-1155-6 (Inpatient)

Clinical Quality Measures Certified: NQF0001, NQF0002, NQF0004, NQF0012, NQF0013, NQF0014, NQF0018, NQF0024, NQF0027, NQF0028, NQF0031, NQF0032, NQF0033, NQF0034, NQF0036, NQF0038, NQF0041, NQF0043, NQF0047, NQF0052, NQF0055, NQF0056, NQF0059, NQF0061, NQF0062, NQF0064, NQF0067, NQF0068, NQF0070, NQF0073, NQF0074, NQF0075, NQF0081,NQF0083, NQF0084, NQF0086, NQF0088, NQF0089, NQF0105, NQF0385, NQF0387, NQF0389, NQF0421, NQF0575,

NQF0371, NQF0372, NQF0373, NQF0374,NQF0375, NQF0376, NQF0435, NQF0436, NQF0437, NQF0438,NQF0439, NQF0440, NQF0441, NQF0495, NQF0497.

No additional software used

Certification Criteria: 170.302 O-V, 170.304 J, 170.306 I

About Clinigence

Clinigence, LLC, in Atlanta, GA, is a health information technology company. Launched in 2010, Clinigence develops, publishes and delivers collaborative software-as-a-service (SaaS) to help healthcare providers derive business value from clinical data and quality patient care. The Clinigence solution is tailored to the emerging needs of healthcare providers due to the shift of the US healthcare system from volume- to value-based purchasing and the growing demand for quality patient care. More information can be found at http://www.clinigence.com or contact Kobi Margolin at kobi@clinigence.com or +1-678-466-6650.

About Drummond Group

Drummond Group Inc., the trusted software test lab, provides effective and efficient electronic health record (EHR) testing to healthcare information technology vendors and hospitals. As an Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB), Drummond Group works closely with healthcare software vendors and hospitals to certify EHRs that are looking to qualify for incentive funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).  Drummond Group is approved to certify both complete and modular EHR for both ambulatory and inpatient.  Leveraging more than a decade’s worth of interoperability, conformance testing and certification experience in multiple industries, Drummond Group delivers what’s needed in healthcare: highly reliable and readily affordable software testing services. For more information, go to www.drummondgroup.com. 

"This is a great honor for us to have been selected by Venture Atlanta," said Kobi Margolin, Clinigence's Founder and CEO. "Not only does Venture Atlanta attract many of the country's top venture capitalists, but we are also proud and honored to be selected among Atlanta's brightest and most promising ventures. We are confident the event will be a great success and are looking forward to making invaluable contacts as we seek to grow our business."

About Venture Atlanta

Venture Atlanta, Georgia's technology innovation event, is where Georgia's top technology innovators meet the country's top-tier investors. As the state's largest investor showcase, Venture Atlanta connects local entrepreneurs with venture capitalists, bankers, angel investors and others who can help them raise the capital they need to grow their businesses. The annual non-profit event is a collaboration of three leading Georgia business organizations: Atlanta CEO Council, Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). For more information, visit www.ventureatlanta.org

About Clinigence

Clinigence, LLC, in Atlanta, is a health information technology company. Conceived in 2009 and launched in 2010, Clinigence develops, publishes and delivers collaborative software-as-a-service (SaaS) to help healthcare providers derive business value from clinical data and quality patient care. The Clinigence solution is tailored to the emerging needs of healthcare providers due to the shift of the US healthcare system from volume- to value-based purchasing and the growing demand for quality patient care. More information can be found at http://www.clinigence.com.