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April 7, 2009
IMI Health Achieves NCQA HEDIS® Software CertificationSM for Second Consecutive Year
Nashville company one of only eleven vendors certified under the program
NASHVILLE, TN ‐ IMI Health announced that it has earned National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Software Certification for its 2009 product. HEDIS software calculates standard measures to support annual audit and reporting requirements for health plans, and IMI Health’s NCQA‐Certified software helps health plans measure quality and lower audit requirements.
HEDIS specifications are updated annually and software vendors must make changes to comply with the measures and gain certification each year. All U.S. health plans seeking NCQA Accreditation must comply annually with the calculation of standard measures and completion of an audit. Health plans that select a certified software vendor are exempt from source code review. Health, plans even without the mandate for review and audit, can benefit by proactively using HEDIS measures to demonstrate their effectiveness.
“IMI Health has seen significant interest in integrating the HEDIS methodology with broader health initiatives,” said Leon Dowling, CEO and Founder, IMI Health. “The HEDIS methodology provides an excellent foundation for supporting both care management and pay‐for‐performance programs in an attempt to deliver better quality healthcare and to manage rising healthcare costs.”
NCQA validates software by generating unique “test case” data sets for vendors to process. Through this program, IMI Health software was compared to the expected results and was deemed compliant with NCQA specifications. “Vendors who achieve certification have proven they are capable of helping their clients gather and deliver consistently accurate results,” said Scott McDaniel, VP, Client Services, IMI Health. “IMI Health is one of only eleven vendors certified under the program.”
About IMI Health
IMI Health, LLC is a high‐growth, healthcare technology company, included on the 2008 INC 5000 list of the fastest‐growing private companies in the US, with growth rates over 40% per year for the last three years. IMI Health has developed an Integrated Health Decision Support (IHDSTM ) * platform which sits at the core of its solutions. IHDS has the flexibility to manage healthcare data from many disparate source applications creating a shared understanding and unified view of the data, information and knowledge essential in the management of the healthcare business community. This feature provides a rich underpinning for solutions in the areas of quality, Medicare and medical management in addition to service offerings for compliance, data integration and analysis. The end product offers not just insight but foresight that can be used for operational decision‐making and enterprise improvements. For more information, please visit www.imihealth.com
*IHDS is a trademark of IMI Health.
** HEDIS is a registered trademark of NCQA.
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