MEDecision Webinar Will Demonstrate How Health Plans Can Reduce Administrative Costs through Automated Information Exchange

Nexalign iEXCHANGE Enables Payers to Automate up to 80 Percent of Provider
Service Requests
WAYNE, Pa.--(Business Wire)--
MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management
solutions, will conduct a free Webinar to look at the ways health plans can
deploy automated health information exchange to reduce administrative costs. The
event is scheduled for Wednesday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. EDT.

The Webinar, "Reducing Administrative Costs through Health Information Exchange
Automation," will feature MEDecision Director of Nexalign Strategic Solutions
Colleen Dudley and her team members discussing the benefits of automating
transactions between health care payers and providers. Among other things,
attendees will learn how MEDecision`s Nexalign iEXCHANGE can enable health plans
to automate up to 80 percent of provider service requests. Primary topics will
include:

* Understanding current provider workflow challenges, particularly the
providers` need to utilize a variety of technical systems to handle different
payers` administrative transactions.
* A market overview of existing electronic solutions and the availability of
HIPAA-standard transactions.
* A look at the advantages of Nexalign iEXCHANGE, including the differences
between iEXCHANGE and a standard 278 transaction, and how iEXCHANGE facilitates
payer/provider communication for the full life cycle of a request.
* Effective targeting and best practices for training and deployment
strategies.

What: Webinar: "Reducing Administrative Costs through Health Information Exchange Automation"
Who: Colleen Dudley, director of Nexalign strategic solutions at MEDecision, and her team members
When: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time (9:30 a.m. Pacific time)
How: Register for this free event at http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=137593&s=1&k=443E2AA935E4AFA4C71409ACE6D8A952

For more information about MEDecision, please visit www.MEDecision.com and
subscribe to an RSS feed at http://www.MEDecision.com/blog/. Follow the company
on Twitter at @MEDecision.

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About MEDecision

MEDecision offers collaborative health care management solutions that provide a
simplified and smart way to manage the health of members and member populations
which can improve the quality and affordability of care. Based on
state-of-the-art technology, MEDecision's solutions include Alineo, a
collaborative health care management platform for managing case, disease and
utilization management and Nexalign, a collaborative health care information
exchange service. MEDecision believes that, in the aggregate, its health care
payer customers insure or manage care for approximately one in every six people
in the U.S. with health insurance. For more information, please visit
www.MEDecision.com.

MEDecision is a trademark of MEDecision, Inc. The MEDecision logo and product
names are also trademarks or registered trademarks of MEDecision, Inc. Other
product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners.

MEDecision
Shannon Renegar, 610-540-0202 x1213
Shannon.Renegar@MEDecision.com
or
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Laura Paden, 818-597-0480
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