Jacksonville, FL – October 15, 2010

MDI announces a new 3-year agreement with HealthScreen, an independent health risk management company based in Jacksonville, Florida, to provide MDI Viewpoint Data Warehouse and Analytics.

Since 1997, HealthScreen has specialized in providing disease management, wellness/prevention initiatives, education and health culture communication plans for employer groups nationwide. HealthScreen assists patient groups and employers in controlling chronic conditions such as diabetes, congestive heart failure, and asthma, in order to help manage quality outcomes for the patient and total healthcare costs.

HealthScreen has contracted with MDI to provide a data warehouse that will supply role-based delivery of patient data and a next generation analytics package to track clinical outcomes, quality measures, and cost containment over time.  In the 3-year agreement, HealthScreen will shift their healthcare data—including information for more than 34,000 employees—over to MDI’s enterprise data warehouse and analytics platform.

The flexibility and functionality offered by MDI’s data warehouse will allow HealthScreen managers to identify at risk members, assign risk scores and track gaps in care in real time. MDI’s data visualization capabilities will allow them to measure performance of managed care groups against wider patient populations and provide a cost view of each patient under care management.

“We are always looking for ways to do our job better,” said Brandon Jolley, Executive Vice President of HealthScreen. “When we saw the capabilities of MDI’s platform, we knew we could use it to supplement what we already do in-house.  We were amazed by their willingness to collaborate with us and their ability to customize a solution to fit our needs.”

“With the ability to measure and assess healthcare data in real time, we can make a significant impact in the lives of patients, on their employers and on the risk management industry as a whole.”

MDI and Well Fargo Insurance Services provide data warehousing and healthcare data analytics for self-insured employers.

PONTE VEDRA, Fla. – September, 2010

MDI, a healthcare technology company, today announced a master services agreement with Wells Fargo Insurance Services to offer data warehousing and analytics in a custom-branded solution called Wells Fargo Insight Series.

Powered by MDI, the Wells Fargo Insight Series is specifically designed to help the company’s clients, including more than 300 self-insured employers, securely manage their claims data while providing unparalleled access for reporting and analytics.

With the goal of controlling costs, managing risk and enhancing the quality of their healthcare related benefits practices, the Wells Fargo Insight Series delivers practical, relevant and actionable data in an intuitive web-based application. The company will utilize the Insight Series to assist in customer retention and provide the customer advantage required for new large company benefit accounts.

The Insight Series will define the ultimate service standard within benefits management and healthcare planning.  Bringing together all of the client’s healthcare data into a single, multi-dimensional database, the Insight Series provides Global Reporting, Analytics, the Predictive Index and E.A.R.L., an industry-leading data visualization tool. Using these tools, Wells Fargo customers can finally see their healthcare related financial data in a meaningful way. From payers to providers to end-users, the Insight Series will support future cost savings and improved quality of care.

“Wells Fargo Insurance Services came to us with the challenge of creating a solution that helped their customers manage all of their data in a way that leads to cost savings,” said Ted Willich, President of MDI. “I am pleased that they have found the value of this product for both their customers and their own business.  With the Insight Series, they can put the context around data to make it useful and actionable.”

Wells Fargo Insurance Services has already begun offering the Wells Fargo Insight Series to its customers.

“This product truly allows our customers to use data to drive decision making in new and innovative ways,” said Patton Coles, Senior VP of Employee Benefits, Wells Fargo Insurance Services’ Roanoke office. “The Insight Series utilizes high-level predictability and analytics tools to help our customers develop measurable outcomes that provide result-driven decisions.”

“We are proud of our association with MDI and we look forward to a long, successful relationship.”

About MDI

MDI creates practical healthcare and data solutions for self-funded employers and government agencies seeking control over rising healthcare costs. Through Carepoint provider networks and Viewpoint claims data warehousing and reporting technology, MDI creates personalized solutions that increase efficiency, improve quality of care and manage future costs for payers, providers and end-users. Combining innovative technology with dedicated customer service, MDI empowers customers with unmatched flexibility in healthcare budget management.

About Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc.

Wells Fargo Insurance Services is the fifth largest insurance brokerage in the world and the largest bank-owned insurance brokerage in the U. S. (Business Insurance, 2010) with more than 200 offices in 37 states. Its 9,200 insurance professionals place more than $16.5 billion of risk premiums with experience in property, casualty, benefits, international, personal lines, and life products.

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MDI awarded contract by American Indian-owned financial services firm, FS Advisors, to offer data warehousing and analytics to the company’s healthcare clients to support their data management needs and provide them with a tool to improve outcomes, cut costs, and deliver valuable insight about customer choices and provider services.

Ponte Vedra, FL – September 2, 2010

MDI today announced a 5-year master services agreement with FS Advisors to offer data warehousing and analytics for FS Advisors’ clients which include Native American tribes nationwide.

FS Advisors, an American Indian-owned financial advisory firm, specializing in employee benefits and risk management for tribal governments and enterprises, awarded MDI with a 5-year contract to offer healthcare data warehousing and analytics to their clients to support their data management needs and provide them with a with a tool to improve outcomes, cut costs, and deliver valuable insight to customers and providers alike.

FS Advisors will use Viewpoint Data Warehouse to integrate a wide range of healthcare history and information from employees and their families into a single, multi-dimensional database. Once securely stored in the database, clients can access the data using the powerful collection of reporting and analytics tools, including E.A.R.L.®, an industry-leading data visualization tool. These tools will help FS Advisors, tribe business leaders, and their employees gain a better understanding of their healthcare spending.

“This contract with FS Advisors will allow the company’s health benefits clients to take control of their data and use it to make more informed decisions about their benefits coverage and spending,” said Ted Willich, President of MDI. “The experts at FS Advisors have extensive experience in creating benefits plans and managing risk, and this technology is going to help them take their services to the next level.”

The first data solution will be built this fall for a tribe that manages over 2,400 member lives and the company plans to make this offering available to its full client base.

Learn more about MDI and Viewpoint Data Warehousing and Analytics at www.medint.com.

Learn more about FS Advisors at http://www.fsadvisorsinc.com/.

“Technology will speed up improvements in medicine” – Jacksonville Business Journal

Ted Willich and E.A.R.L.® were featured in a recent JBJ article on healthcare technology. The article discusses the possibilities offered by new advancements in genomics, surgical procedures and data technology, including electronic medical records and data analytics. Willich is quoted in the article, explaining the benefits of MDI’s Viewpoint Analytics along with a screenshot and description of E.A.R.L.®

Read the full article here.

Healthcare solutions company awarded a five-year contract to provide medical staffing and credentialing services for federal agencies.

Ponte Vedra, FL – August 20, 2010

MDI, a healthcare solutions company, has been awarded a five-year contract from the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide healthcare staffing services through the Department of Veteran Affairs National Acquisition Center (NAC). The GSA Schedule award offers a fast, easy and effective vehicle for contracting with the federal government.

MDI was awarded the contract to provide healthcare staffing services through the NAC, the largest combined contracting entity within the Department of Veterans Affairs. The NAC is responsible for supporting the healthcare requirements of the VA as well as the needs for other government agencies.

MDI received the award after a complex evaluation and approval process in which the GSA assessed the company’s services, organizational structure, performance history and a variety of other criteria. This process ensures the company is capable of providing effective, efficient and secure services for federal agencies.

“We are very pleased and excited to be awarded the Federal Supply Schedule 621I,” said Matt Richards, President of MDI Government Operations. “This award allows us to expand our service to other government customers and allows contract officers an easy way to access services they need.”

“MDI’s services are in demand, especially in the Federal Departments of Veteran Affairs and Health and Human Services, and we intend to provide them with the same high standards that we’ve set over 18 years of working with the government.”

MDI has been building and managing healthcare networks for federal, state and other related agencies since 1992.  Existing networks cover the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Land Management, and the Department of Corrections for various states.

This award allows other government customers an easy and effective vehicle for obtaining medical staffing and credentialing services from MDI.

Contact MDI for more information on bids and contracting.
Contract Number: V797P-7278A

Jacksonville healthcare technology company earns NIST SP800 certification for secure healthcare data warehousing.

August 17, 2010 – Ponte Vedra, Florida

MDI, a healthcare technology and data management company in Ponte Vedra, Florida, has recently been awarded security certification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). MDI’s healthcare data warehousing and analytics solutions were deemed compliant with the security requirements of SP 800-53A, the catalog of security controls and technical guidelines for protecting federal information and information systems.

This certification provides assurance to organizations that their data warehousing solution is secured to the highest standards.  The arduous certification process was extensive, time consuming, and required a tremendous amount of effort by the IT Development and Administration teams.  The company is pleased to have achieved this certification as it is a recognized symbol that protected patient data information is secure.

“This is an important certification for us, and our team has worked hard to ensure we meet the strictest U.S. government standards for data security,” said Ted Willich, President of MDI’s Commercial Operations. “This certification not only reassures our customers that their private data is secure and accessible, it also opens door for more growth into emerging healthcare data technologies.”

NIST Special Publication 800-53A provides guidelines for managing the configuration of information system architectures and associated components for secure processing, storing, and transmitting information. MDI’s evaluation and certification was based upon applying technical, managerial and operational controls to MDI’s data warehousing facility and services for a federal client.

Jacksonville healthcare technology and data warehouse company names long-time board member to Medical Director position

Ponte Vedra, FL – August 18, 2010

MDI, a healthcare technology and data warehousing company in Ponte Vedra, today introduced Dr. Rudolf Bickel as their new Corporate Medical Director.

Dr. Bickel has served on the company’s board for more than 15 years, providing guidance and advice on clinical issues for MDI’s clients in the federal government and public sector. His role as Corporate Medical Director will include the ongoing development and testing of MDI’s Viewpoint Analytics, a powerful data warehouse and claims reporting service for corporate clients.

Dr. Bickel’s clinical and care management expertise will be instrumental in the ongoing success of MDI’s Viewpoint Analytics platform. Built on a state-of-the-art data warehouse, Viewpoint Analytics uses dimensional data modeling to create powerful healthcare reports and visualizations. Dr. Bickel is helping oversee the development and testing of new reporting features that will help clients better understand their healthcare data to make more informed decisions about future benefits plans and spending.

“We are excited that Dr. Bickel has taken a more active role in the development of our clinical reporting capabilities,” said Ted Willich, President of MDI. “His background and experience in establishing care management programs for a range of organizations is of tremendous value to our efforts.”

Dr. Bickel has founded and served as a medical director at several successful medical practices throughout the Mid-Atlantic over his 30 year career as a practicing physician. He has also held consultant positions with a number of healthcare technology oriented-companies including Cybermedix Inc. and PHP Healthcare Corporation.

Dr. Bickel is also a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force Medical Corps with more than 20 years experience in the public sector, including: Chairman of the Primary Care Department at Andrews AFB, Chief of Healthcare Requirements under the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, and key staff positions for the Office of the Surgeon General (USAF), Tri-Service Medical Information Systems Office and USAF School of Aerospace Medicine.

Dr. Bickel is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a graduate with distinction of the University of Michigan.

We’re proud to announce that the Jacksonville Business Journal has selected our own CFO, Fallon Gorman, as an “Ultimate CFO”!

The Ultimate CFO Awards recognize area financial officers for leadership in changing business models, core accounting and reporting, as well as management of people, systems and technology. Ultimate CFO’s are selected from nominations made by readers of the Jacksonville Business Journal.

Gorman will be featured in a special section of the September 17th issue of the Business Journal. Winners will also be honored during a luncheon on Thursday, September 16th at the Marriott Southpoint.

Information is vital in today’s marketplace, not just as a record, but a means to gauge future trends. Nowhere is this more important than the healthcare industry. Today, medical information is no longer centralized to a hospital setting. On the contrary, healthcare has become highly decentralized in terms of patient services as well as service processing. One particular area witnessing significant growth is claims processing.

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