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Itasca, IL, October 4, 2011- APP Design has been awarded a contract by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology to support its e-consent trial.

The contract is commissioned by the ONC to develop and pilot an electronic system allowing patients to consent to the sharing of their health data. Utilizing APP Design’s RHIOnet and Story Engine solutions as a platform for the pilot, the project will involve educational features and provide feedback for future applications though a survey. READ MORE

Vizual Edge of Vernon Hills, Illinois has selected APP Design to develop the second generation of their patented Vizual Edge Performance Trainer® (VEPT) product that provides Weight Training for the Eyes!©

The software allows individual athletes to utilize the same cutting edge sports vision training techniques used by Olympic and professional athletes. It also allows coaches and training staff the ability to affordably incorporate visual performance evaluations and training to improve team success in their programs!

Along with some enhancements and added functionality, the new version will be web based allowing greater flexibility and compatibility over the existing CD based version.

APP Design Client HealthxNet now processes over 400,000 transactions per month for over 3,000 users, representing more than 5,000 providers. Albuquerque-based HealthxNet provides Eligibility and Benefits, Claim Status, Pre-authorization, Patient Census and Claims Processing for local payers, Molina Healthcare, Lovelace Health System, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico, and New Mexico Medicaid, along with national payers, such as Aetna, Cigna, Humana, and Tricare.

“APP has helped us build the strong infrastructure necessary to support our 24/7 operations.” says Joseph Speroni, Vice President of HealthxNet. “Their rigorous approach to software development and depth of healthcare experience allows us to integrate new features and data feeds quickly and release confident that they’ll run perfectly first time, every time.”

In operation since 1999, HealthXnet® health information exchange seeks to encourage cooperation, improve administrative efficiencies, and enhance the ability to deliver quality care to its member organizations by streamlining the flow of information among hospitals, health plans, physicians and other healthcare organizations. More information about HealthxNet is available at http://www.healthxnet.com.

APP Design designs and develops healthcare information delivery systems. HealthxNet has been an APP Design client since 2005.

JVC Americas has chosen RevCast LLC’s Integrated Merchandising System (IMS) to manage its products at more than 3,000 Wal-Mart and 800 Best Buy locations across the US.

IMS allows consistent views of both sets of data, even though Wal-Mart’s data comes from RetailLink and Best Buy’s data is EDI. IMS extracts and translates both sets of data to a common format that allows easy analysis.

IMS not only reduces the time it takes to retrieve data, but also provides analytical tools and historical data. IMS allows analysts to focus on analysis rather than repetitive data gathering and formatting chores. In addition, it should provides trending and analysis to pro-actively manage overstocks and out of stocks, leading to significant cost savings over time.

About JVC
JVC Company of America is a division of JVC Americas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Victor Company of Japan, Limited. JVC is a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated audio and video products that use superior technologies to deliver high quality sound and images. For 80 years the JVC brand name has been associated with the very best in audio and video entertainment.

About RevCast LLC
RevCast, a joint venture between RevCast Inc. and APP Design, was founded by a team of retail information system veterans. Our goal is to build robust, easy to use information tools for analysis of large amounts of retail data. We also provide consulting services to help our clients leverage our tools and augment their staff. Our flagship product is the Integrated Merchandising System, which allows retail analysts unparalleled power in an easy to use tool.

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WNYHealtheNet web application wins Healthcare Achievement Award

BUFFALO, NY –April 26, 2006 – WNYHealtheNet is the recipient of the 2006 Buffalo Niagara 2006 BETA Award in the Healthcare Achievement category. The announcement was made March 23 by InfoTech Niagara.

Each year, the Buffalo/Niagara Emerging Technology Awards (BETA) are presented to companies, organizations, and people who seek to discover, honor, and promote the efforts of those who have served as innovators, creators and advocates of new technologies, new methods of integrating technology and of economic development through technology in Western New York. The awards are sponsored by InfoTech Niagara, a coalition of companies and people involved with information and computing technologies in Western New York.

WNYHealtheNet (pronounced as “Western New York Healthy Net”) earned honors in the Healthcare Achievement category, which recognizes a local healthcare organization that best embodies the vision, most inventive ideas, and the broadest leadership in technological innovation.
“The BETA award signifies that the local technology and medical communities have recognized WNYHealtheNet as an ever-evolving, mainstream organization whose website adds value and administratively simplifies office practices through the imposition of industry standards,” said Tom Unger, Grapevine Consulting, contracted program manager for WNYHealtheNet. “The success has been a result of working with experienced technology partners, including Chicago-based APP Design Inc., and PCI of Buffalo.”

WNYHealtheNet is a database-driven software tool available via the Internet. It is a collaboration by the region’s major hospitals and all health insurance plans, and allows for on-line, real-time administrative transaction processing.

“WNYHealtheNet is an amazing success story,” said APP Design partner Rob Quinn, the company that created the WNYHealtheNet software application, and built the country’s first community health network, Wisconsin Health Information Network (WHIN). “It’s been a privilege to have contributed to WNYHealtheNet, which drives down health care costs, as it saves physicians and providers nearly $20 every time a referral is made, and $1 for every transaction. When considering that the application supports nearly two million transactions every month, the cost savings add up quickly.”

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