Prominent Northern Michigan Health Care System Implements WellCentive Registry

ATLANTA and MUSKEGON, Mich., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- WellCentive, LLC (WellCentive) today announced that its WellCentive Registry has been selected for use by Wexford-Mercy PHO, a Cadillac, Mich.-based physician hospital organization affiliated with Mercy Hospital in Cadillac. The organization plans to use the system to improve clinical quality outcomes and streamline the care delivery process.

Through the use of the WellCentive Registry, physicians and other health care providers are better able to track patients who have chronic health conditions such as diabetes, asthma or heart disease. The WellCentive Registry also includes highly effective patient outreach capabilities, including an integrated automated telephone appointment and care reminder system called WellCentive Outreach. WellCentive (www.wellcentive.com) provides comprehensive Web-based preventive care and chronic disease management solutions for physicians, physician organizations, health insurance companies and other health care organizations.

"The Wexford-Mercy PHO has always been interested in finding new ways to better leverage data for improving patient care and the quality of our services," said Victor Sztengel, executive director at Wexford-Mercy PHO. "The WellCentive system will help us better organize our data and apply quality indicators to administrative and clinical information to help our physicians improve both short- and long-term patient outcomes."

Wexford-Mercy PHO physicians will utilize the WellCentive Registry at the point of care as well as for patient population management. The physicians will also use the WellCentive Registry for preventive care and chronic disease management initiatives.

"We are very pleased to welcome Wexford-Mercy PHO to the growing roster of organizations using the WellCentive Registry around the country," said Paul Taylor, M.D., WellCentive co-founder, CEO and medical director. "No other health information system can deliver the features and return on investment that are available through the WellCentive system, and we are confident that the physicians at Wexford-Mercy PHO will find this system to be easy-to- implement, cost-effective, and helpful for improving the quality of the services they provide."

The WellCentive Registry combines the capabilities of a Web-based point- of-care patient registry system with custom interfacing, customizable alerts, targeted patient outreach, comprehensive reporting tools, secure messaging features and direct reporting of outcomes to payers.

About Wexford-Mercy PHO

Founded in 1993, Wexford-Mercy PHO is a not for profit Physician Hospital Organization based in Cadillac, Michigan. The Wexford-Mercy PHO consists of primary care physicians, specialists, and ancillary providers who work with Mercy Hospital in Cadillac to provide quality healthcare to residents across Northern Michigan. For more information, call 231-876-7139.

About WellCentive

WellCentive is a health information technology company, which offers comprehensive Web-based preventative care and chronic disease management solutions with industry-leading capabilities. The WellCentive Registry is an all-patient registry system that can be used at the point of care and can be interfaced with various disparate data sources, such as laboratories, EMR's, billing, and scheduling systems, and with disparate data recipients, such as payers for pay for performance (P4P) initiatives and CMS for the PQRI program. In addition, WellCentive systems offer a comprehensive set of reporting tools that allow the user to design and generate a wide variety of standard and user-specified reports in a host of formats, including charts, graphs and gauges.

For more information, visit www.wellcentive.com.

SOURCE WellCentive, LLC