Wipro Partners with Healthsciences for Pay for Performance Offering
Wipro partners with HealthSciences Institute to build an integrated delivery platform for US Pay-for-Performance Programs & Health Plans
Bangalore, November 08, 2006 Wipro Technologies, the Global IT Services Business of Wipro Ltd (NYSE: WIT) and HealthSciences Institute today announced the launch of “Accelerated Practice Improvement” service for the US Health Plans market.
"Accelerating Practice Improvement” is designed to assist Health Plans in US, implement Pay-for-Performance Incentive (P4P) programs for primary & specialty care physician practices.
Dr. Blake Andersen, President and CEO, HealthSciences Institute and Chronic Care Group, said, "By partnering with a global services leader such as Wipro, we have created a customizable, scalable, cost-effective process and an integrated delivery platform for systematically assessing gaps and supporting physician practice performance improvement. To date, there’s been strong interest by both health plans and pay for performance programs in the U.S.”
“Accelerating Practice Improvement” features a set of tools, knowledgebase and frameworks that would help health plans assess the physician groups’ adoption of KPIs, benchmark the same, implement improvement frame-works and guidelines of organizations like Institute of Medicine, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, and Bridges to Excellence along with evidence on top performing physician practices. “Accelerating Practice Improvement” also includes partner engagement and program & change management tools to help practices manage demonstrated barriers to implementation and sustainability.
Susheel Ladwa, Practice Leader for Healthcare - North America, Wipro Technologies said “With the raising medical costs in US and the increasing need for better outcomes, Pay-for-performance is here to stay, and health plans need a scalable, transportable platform that would enable them effectively manage the program across primary and specialty care physicians. And clearly, this framework and technology extends itself to the care delivery networks as well”
Physician practices face the daunting task of trying to translate chronic care improvement models into their practices in the absence of the implementation and project management methodologies, tools and resources that are routinely used in most other industries and settings. Most physician practices, particularly small ones, do not have the resources to lead these types of improvement projects.
Wipro’s Health & Life Sciences Team has been a global information technology leader, having developed and implemented a number of performance-based technology solutions for re-engineering health care.
Wipro’s engagement experience with leading organizations across the healthcare value chain in US have indicated that successful performance improvement efforts are reliant not only on top notch IT platforms and solutions but also on deep domain and process knowledge and program management expertise., but also on key enablers solid execution, change management initiatives. The partnership with HealthSciences will help Wipro deliver more sustainable and better integrated performance improvement solutions to health plan customers.
HealthSciences and Chronic Care Group have led a number of physician performance improvement engagements in the U.S. and Canada, including most recently, ImproveHF - the largest outpatient cardiology heart failure improvement project to date involving over 200 U.S. cardiology practices.
HealthSciences Institute
HealthSciences Institute and Chronic Care Group, help health care payers, health systems, and providers design and implement health care performance improvement and disease management solutions to improve the value of health care delivered to consumers and purchasers. HealthSciences’ professional disease management certification program, patient engagement products, and health care consulting services have been selected by some of the largest private and public health care organizations in and outside of the U.S.
About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services organization globally. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to corporations globally.
Bangalore, November 08, 2006 Wipro Technologies, the Global IT Services Business of Wipro Ltd (NYSE: WIT) and HealthSciences Institute today announced the launch of “Accelerated Practice Improvement” service for the US Health Plans market.
"Accelerating Practice Improvement” is designed to assist Health Plans in US, implement Pay-for-Performance Incentive (P4P) programs for primary & specialty care physician practices.
Dr. Blake Andersen, President and CEO, HealthSciences Institute and Chronic Care Group, said, "By partnering with a global services leader such as Wipro, we have created a customizable, scalable, cost-effective process and an integrated delivery platform for systematically assessing gaps and supporting physician practice performance improvement. To date, there’s been strong interest by both health plans and pay for performance programs in the U.S.”
“Accelerating Practice Improvement” features a set of tools, knowledgebase and frameworks that would help health plans assess the physician groups’ adoption of KPIs, benchmark the same, implement improvement frame-works and guidelines of organizations like Institute of Medicine, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, and Bridges to Excellence along with evidence on top performing physician practices. “Accelerating Practice Improvement” also includes partner engagement and program & change management tools to help practices manage demonstrated barriers to implementation and sustainability.
Susheel Ladwa, Practice Leader for Healthcare - North America, Wipro Technologies said “With the raising medical costs in US and the increasing need for better outcomes, Pay-for-performance is here to stay, and health plans need a scalable, transportable platform that would enable them effectively manage the program across primary and specialty care physicians. And clearly, this framework and technology extends itself to the care delivery networks as well”
Physician practices face the daunting task of trying to translate chronic care improvement models into their practices in the absence of the implementation and project management methodologies, tools and resources that are routinely used in most other industries and settings. Most physician practices, particularly small ones, do not have the resources to lead these types of improvement projects.
Wipro’s Health & Life Sciences Team has been a global information technology leader, having developed and implemented a number of performance-based technology solutions for re-engineering health care.
Wipro’s engagement experience with leading organizations across the healthcare value chain in US have indicated that successful performance improvement efforts are reliant not only on top notch IT platforms and solutions but also on deep domain and process knowledge and program management expertise., but also on key enablers solid execution, change management initiatives. The partnership with HealthSciences will help Wipro deliver more sustainable and better integrated performance improvement solutions to health plan customers.
HealthSciences and Chronic Care Group have led a number of physician performance improvement engagements in the U.S. and Canada, including most recently, ImproveHF - the largest outpatient cardiology heart failure improvement project to date involving over 200 U.S. cardiology practices.
HealthSciences Institute
HealthSciences Institute and Chronic Care Group, help health care payers, health systems, and providers design and implement health care performance improvement and disease management solutions to improve the value of health care delivered to consumers and purchasers. HealthSciences’ professional disease management certification program, patient engagement products, and health care consulting services have been selected by some of the largest private and public health care organizations in and outside of the U.S.
About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services organization globally. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to corporations globally.
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