APP Design

APP Design announced today that it has been chosen as technology partner to HealthXnet, the Albuquerque based health information exchange. HealthXnet currently delivers information from:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico
• Lovelace Health Plan
• Molina Healthcare
• New Mexico Medicaid
• Presbyterian Health Plan

“We chose APP Design for their depth of knowledge of healthcare information exchanges.” said Joseph Speroni, Senior Manager of HealthXnet. “They’re not the biggest, but they understand the
intricacies of the multiple information flows from disparate sources, HIPAA X12 transactions, and our need for 24 by 7 service.”

About HealthXnet - The HealthXnet(r) 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

About APP Design - APP Design builds enterprise class systems delivering information from disparate sources using Internet technologies.

APP Design and RevCast have formed RevCast, LLC to jointly develop and support RevCast’s Integrated Merchandising System (IMS) retail data analysis product.

RevCast IMS provides a comprehensive suite of tools to manage forecasting, replenishment, promotions, analysis, and reporting. This includes:

• Sales Analysis
• Inventory Analysis
• Geographic Analysis
• Demographic Analysis
• Merchandising Plans
• Marketing Plans
• Promotional Plans
• Store Level Forecasting
• Ad-hoc Reporting

All of these functions are tightly integrated and monitored by a real time exception alert system that flags potential problems before they occur, providing time to anticipate and mitigate adverse events.

About RevCast Inc.
RevCast 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.

About APP Design Inc.
APP Design Inc. builds reliable, scalable, and cost-effective enterprise-class software. We provide the “heavy-lifting”, secure, robust solutions that consistently deliver millions of transactions. Using our proven, scalable, APP Anvil™ Application Server, our depth of knowledge, and our practical experience, we create high quality solutions for today’s rapidly changing business environment.

APP Design solutions save provider organizations $2.4 million over the past year, as featured in Health Management Technology article " Transaction Portal Cuts Costs".

From the article:

One of the members, Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health System, is recovering $120,000 a month—$1.44 million annualized—in copays that were previously not collected due to the lack of information about member eligibility and copays, reports Fran Meyer, chief information officer at Kaleida Health System. Also, Catholic Health System in western New York is recovering $82,000 a month—$984,000 annualized—in copays that were previously lost, says Jeffrey Baughan, chief information officer at Catholic Health System.

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Payer organizations also benefit from WNYHealtheNet. HealthNow, a WNYHealtheNet payer participant, realized a significant increase in transactions while reducing the amount of calls and costs associated with its call center volume for inquiries by enabling additional access to online information, according to Gary Kerl, chief information officer of HealthNow and BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York.

The improved efficiency of this new system, and the reduced volume that needed to be handled by the call centers, enabled HealthNow to avoid call center costs of nearly $20,000 a month and eliminated the need for $8,600 a month in dial-up lines. Combined, these efforts reduced annual costs to date by more than $340,000.

About Eliginet/APP Design — APP Design Group builds enterprise class systems delivering information from disparate sources using Internet technologies. APP Design’s Eliginet product is the provider information delivery platform for WNY HealtheNet.

APP Design’s Eliginet product is a secure platform for delivering information from multiple disparate sources to the desktop using Internet technologies. This proven, cost-effective system helps healthcare organizations reduce costs, address security and HIPAA compliance issues, and speed the delivery of information between partners. Eliginet’s focus is on the secure electronic exchange of information necessary to reduce administrative and clinical costs while improving the quality of health care.

Eliginet customer WNY HealtheNet wins award for collaboration

(February 25, 2003) The AstraZeneca-NMHCC Partnership Award winners for 2003 will be honored at the 15th Annual National Managed Health Care Congress, March 10-12 in Washington. The award recognizes organizations that address health care delivery quality, access and efficiency initiatives through collaborative efforts. This year’s winners are Availity LLC, Jacksonville, Fla.; Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance, Wilmington, N.C.; and WNYHealtheNet, Lancaster, N.Y.

WNYHealtheNet is an online health insurance business venture among provider and payer organizations that aims to assist in verifying health plan enrollee eligibility, check claims status and exchange referrals. Member organizations include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western New York, Catholic Health System, Erie County Medical Center Healthcare Network, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Independent Health, Kaleida Health and Univera Healthcare.

NMHCC and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LLP, Wilmington, Del., are co-sponsors of the award. Winners are chosen by virtue of collaboration among health care provider and payer organizations, employers, pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, and vendors. In addition to recognition at the congress, winners will make case study presentations and receive $2,500 grants for the charities of their choice.

About Eliginet/APP Design
– APP Design builds enterprise class systems delivering information from disparate sources using Internet technologies. APP Design’s Eliginet product is the provider information delivery platform for WNY HealtheNet.

APP Design Group’s Eliginet product is a secure platform for delivering information from multiple disparate sources to the provider desktop using Internet technologies. This proven, cost-effective system helps healthcare organizations reduce costs, address security and HIPAA compliance issues, and speed the delivery of information between partners. Eliginet’s focus is on the secure electronic exchange of information necessary to reduce administrative and clinical costs while improving the quality of health care.

APP Design congratulates WNY HealtheNet on the successful rollout of the WNY HealtheNet system based on APP Design’s Eliginet. By leveraging their shared infrastructure, technology, and intellectual capital, they’ve proven that collaboration between healthcare entities can make revolutionary changes in healthcare delivery.

The reward of many months of rigorous testing, involving millions of transactions, has resulted in the most stable and efficient platform in the healthcare community.

WNY HealtheNet:

• Dramatically reduces HIPAA compliance costs for the member organizations.
• Benefits providers by reducing time and resources wasted on administrative overhead, thereby increasing quality of patient care.
• Reduces administrative and clinical cost by implementing best practices throughout the region.

The Medical Group Management Association reports that managing the administrative burden consumes $13,850 per year, per physician. WNY HealtheNet will help reduce these costs by reducing the amount of time spent on administrative tasks.

About Eliginet/APP Design — APP Design builds enterprise class systems delivering information from disparate sources using Internet technologies. APP Design’s Eliginet product is the provider information delivery platform for WNY HealtheNet.

APP Design’s Eliginet product is a secure platform for delivering information from multiple disparate sources to the desktop using Internet technologies. This proven, cost-effective system helps healthcare organizations reduce costs, address security and HIPAA compliance issues, and speed the delivery of information between partners. Eliginet’s focus is on the secure electronic exchange of information necessary to reduce administrative and clinical costs while improving the quality of health care.