Adaptis to Host Free Medical Management Webinar
Educational Focus Geared to Strategies to Optimize Cost-Effective Medical Outcomes
September 29, 2005
Seattle, WA – Adaptis, a leading provider of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and related services to the health care industry, today announced that it is offering an educationally-focused webinar to help managed care organizations, TPAs, health plans and others gain an understanding of key Medical Management strategies that support the delivery of clinically expert services that promote cost-effectiveness, patient satisfaction and optimize medical outcomes. The webinar will be offered during two sessions on Thursday, October 6th. Session 1 begins at 11:30 a.m. Eastern/8:30 a.m. Pacific, with Session 2 following at 3:00 p.m. Eastern/12:00 p.m. Pacific. Registration is highly recommended, but not required; full instructions are available on the Adaptis website at http://www.adaptis.com/about/events.shtml.
In the first portion of the one hour webinar, Julie O’Brien, registered nurse and vice president and COO of Alicare Medical Management will discuss the value and ROI that organizations can gain from a 24Hour Nurse HelpLine. Next, Dr. Seth Lewin will present “Applying Evidence-based Medicine” which will offer insight, understanding of and appreciation for the value and limitations of various grades or levels of evidence in the decision-making process. Dr. Lewin, Medical Director at Alicare Medical Management (AMM), has over 20 years of clinical and utilization management experience and was educated at Brooklyn College and Georgetown University School of Medicine and was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School. In addition to his work as Medical Director, he is an instructor at Tufts University School of Medicine and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
On September 28th Adaptis announced a strategic partnership with Alicare Medical Management, positioning the company as one of the only health care business process outsourcing firms to enable customers to outsource both benefit administration and medical management from a single source. Alicare Medical Management’s services are URAC accredited in four areas: utilization management, case management, health call center/phone triage, independent review, and is pending in disease management.
