LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - Feb 17, 2012) - HIMSS12 -- Booth #4469 -- NaviNet, America's largest real-time healthcare communications network, today announced that S. Michael Ross, MD, MHA, Chief Medical Officer, NaviNet, will moderate a panel discussion with Kevin Maher, Director of Clinical Innovations, Horizon Healthcare Innovations; Thomas McCarrick, MD, Vanguard Medical Group; Janet Duni, population care coordinator; and Helen Kuryllo, patient advocate for her parents.
This panel will examine the delivery of care through the Horizon Healthcare Innovations Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Program, featuring the perspectives of a health plan, physician, populations care coordinator, and care advocate. Participants will be engaged in a mindset-altering dialogue between the collaborative efforts between Horizon Healthcare Innovations and Vanguard Medical Group -- and the direct effect that this PCMH and its population care coordinator have on the outcomes of two patients and their patient advocate.
To view videos about the Horizon Healthcare Innovations Patient-Centered Medical Home program and the new nursing role of a Population Care Coordinator, click here.
What:
Presentation entitled, "Care Collaboration Panel Discussion: Delivering Value to the Patient"
Who:
S. Michael Ross, MD, MHA, Chief Medical Officer, NaviNet
Kevin Maher, Director of Clinical Innovations, Horizon Healthcare Innovations
Thomas McCarrick, MD, Vanguard Medical Group
Janet Duni, Population Care Coordinator
Helen Kuryllo, Patient Advocate for Her Parents
Where:
HIMSS12
Venetian-Palazzo-Sands Expo Center, Las Vegas
Galileo 905
Las Vegas, Nevada
When:
February 22, 2012
3:30-4:30 p.m. PST
About NaviNet
NaviNet, America's largest real-time healthcare communications network, securely links leading health plans, industry partners and the government to hundreds of thousands of physicians, clinicians and other healthcare professionals. More than 75 percent of the nation's physicians are enrolled in the NaviNet Network, which touches 121 million covered lives. NaviNet's care collaboration solutions and services for unified patient information management (UPIM) address the full lifecycle of healthcare data management by providing single-source access to patient-centric administrative, financial and clinical information to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and improve quality of care. For more information, or to sign up for NaviNet, please visit www.NaviNet.net or call 617-715-6000 or 800-805-7569.
About Horizon Healthcare Innovations
Horizon Healthcare Innovations, LLC (HHI), a subsidiary of Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc., New Jersey's largest and oldest health insurer, was formed in September 2010 to energize collaborative efforts among health care stakeholders to transform the health care system. Horizon Healthcare Innovations envisions a health care system marked by high-quality care, increased patient satisfaction and improved affordability. By rethinking the approach to health care delivery models, Horizon Healthcare Innovations is working collaboratively with partners to find innovative, cooperative solutions. Horizon Healthcare Innovations is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
Contact Information:
Media Contact
NaviNet, Inc.
Laura McCaughey
617-715-6431