Healthcare technology and services company in Ponte Vedra, Florida has attained top certification in business intelligence, custom web development, data management solutions and Software Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process from Microsoft Corporation.

Leading healthcare technology solutions company, MDI has been endorsed as a Gold Certified Partner by Microsoft Corporation. The Microsoft Gold Certified Partner program recognizes companies with the highest levels of reliability, experience and capabilities in various technological fields. MDI has earned Gold Certification in business intelligence, custom web development, data management solutions, Software Oriented Architecture and Business Process.

MDI was founded in 1992, combining a unique provider network model with innovative technology to help employers better manage healthcare spending. Today, MDI works alongside payers, self-funded employers and government agencies to create healthcare solutions that improve quality of care and provide actionable information for faster, more informed business decisions.

To achieve Microsoft Gold Certification Partner status, MDI had to demonstrate superior capability in each specialized Competency. The Microsoft Competencies help differentiate a partner’s capabilities in various technologies and business fields, so customers can better choose service providers. MDI has been Gold Certified in the following competencies:
-    Business Intelligence: including data storage and management, performance management, query, reporting and analysis, and information delivery.
-    Custom Web Development Solutions: focused on delivering web-enabled software and technology solutions
-    Data Management Solutions: specializing in applications to capture, analyze and manage business data
-    Software Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process: including the design, deployment and customization of business process management solutions and enterprise integration

“We’re really proud of this recognition from Microsoft,” said David Darnell, VP of Software Research and Development at MDI. “Our talented programmers and software designers are constantly improving our existing products and creating new solutions for our customers. It’s great to know that Microsoft sees that work and recognizes their talent.”

Learn more about MDI’s healthcare technology solutions at www.MedInt.com.

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 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.
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Healthcare technology and services company in Ponte Vedra, Florida completes major brand overhaul to update its image and reflect a shift in its core business to technology.

MDI, a leading healthcare technology solutions company, recently launched a new brand, marketing materials and corporate website. Previously operating under two key brands—MDI Government Healthcare Solutions for public entities and MDI Healthcare Solutions for corporate accounts—the company has combined all operations and services under the single brand of MDI. To lead this rebranding and restructuring process, MDI enlisted the help of IF marketing & advertising, a full-service agency located in Georgetown, Texas.

Established in 1992, MDI is a leader in integrated healthcare management services, including national provider networks with advanced technology to help clients manage their spending and improve the quality of their care. With extensive experience in the public sector, MDI began offering comprehensive healthcare solutions to the corporate market in 2009.

MDI Holdings, Inc., the parent company to both MDI Government Healthcare Solutions and MDI Healthcare Solutions, began the rebranding process after more than a decade of continuous growth, acquisition and new product development. By combining all operations under the name MDI, the company can establish a clear, memorable presence in the healthcare market.

This rebranding process included new logo development, strategic messaging and positioning, as well as new product names and logos. MDI products include Carepoint CPN^TM, custom provider networks built to each employer’s unique needs and Viewpoint claims data technology. Within the Viewpoint family, MDI offers Claims Assessment and Claims Monitoring, to help employers and payers manage coding errors and overpayments. And MDI’s flagship technology is Viewpoint Analytics, a powerful claims data reporting and predictive analysis tool that provides unmatched accessibility and understanding of patient claims data with the ability to predict and account for future healthcare spending.

In addition to the new corporate and product branding, IF marketing & advertising also helped MDI develop a new, all-inclusive corporate website. MDI’s new site (www.MedInt.com) provides detailed information on the company’s comprehensive solutions for government agencies, self-funded employers, healthcare payers and consultants, as well as each of the company’s products and services.

“We’re thrilled to launch the new brand identity for MDI,” said Ted Willich, President of MDI. “The messaging and website may be new, but they capture the philosophies and beliefs that have been a part of MDI from the very beginning: innovation, flexibility and personalized service for our customers.”

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 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 IF MARKETING & ADVERTISING
IF marketing & advertising is a rapidly growing full-service marketing company, based in Georgetown, Texas, that combines innovative designs, strategic leadership, and up front accountability to deliver traditional and Internet marketing solutions. Leveraging marketing expertise and trendsetting creativity, IF helps clients build brand strategy and market presence that generates qualified demand and quantifiable results. IF provides innovative marketing solutions to businesses from start-up to Fortune 500.

PONTE VEDRA, Fla., — MDI Healthcare Solutions, based in Ponte Vedra, Florida announced today that the second-generation E.A.R.L.® , part of the MDI Analytics Suite, will be featured in the keynote address at Microsoft’s MIX10, The Next Web Now Conference in Las Vegas on Monday, March 15^th. (http://live.visitmix.com) The MDI Analytics Suite is a collection of practical data visualization and analytics solutions for the complex healthcare environment. E.A.R.L.® (Empowered Analysis and Reporting Log) was created with Microsoft Silverlight, a browser plug-in that powers rich interactive experiences through Web, desktop and mobile applications.

“Our customers have been using the E.A.R.L.® technology for almost two years,” said MDI Healthcare Solutions President Ted Willich. “We have been working on this latest iteration for the better part of 2009, and what we’ve created is a detailed graphic representation of data that up until now has been very hard to understand. To be recognized at this very important gathering of industry professionals is very gratifying.”

E.A.R.L.® is a user-friendly graphic tool that visualizes a patient’s medical history, including diagnoses, claims and pharmacy information. Through an interactive visual interpretation of the human body, users are able to review claim-supported patient history at a glance. Color identifies the severity of the affected organs, bones, and other areas within the body, allowing customers to quickly identify high-risk situations and manage future healthcare costs. E.A.R.L.® is accessed through a secure portal by MDI’s customers, protecting patient identity and privacy.

The second-generation E.A.R.L.® is part of the company’s newly launched MDI Analytics Suite, which allows users to analyze and manipulate data to manage current and future healthcare costs in an easy-to-use, flexible, web-based reporting gateway. MDI’s driven staff, along with Silverlight’s rapid development capabilities, made it possible to create and implement this revolutionary product in a very short timeframe. (Check out Microsoft Silverlight’s Customers Light up the Web video here featuring E.A.R.L.®)

“Silverlight enables a variety of business application scenarios, and Microsoft looks forward to seeing how the healthcare industry will benefit from MDI Healthcare Solutions’ new Silverlight-based E.A.R.L.® technology,” said Steve Sklepowich, director for Silverlight at Microsoft Corp. “E.A.R.L.® is a great example of how companies can use Silverlight to power rich, line of business applications that provide users with an efficient, visual way to interpret data.”

The MDI Analytics Suite also includes powerful health data analysis tools that make a variety of standard and customizable reports available to assist in decision-making and understanding medical claims data.

Our revolutionary healthcare data visualization tool, E.A.R.L. has been featured in a case study on Microsoft’s corporate website.

E.A.R.L. combines Microsoft Silverlight technology with our proprietary claims processing capabilities to display patient histories in a dynamic, interactive visual representation. To create this innovative application, MDI’s skilled software developers worked with Microsoft Silverlight partners at New Age Solution, LLC in Jacksonville, Florida.

To promote the unique development opportunities of the Silverlight platform, Microsoft has recently produced an in-depth case study describing the underlying technology, benefits and capabilities of E.A.R.L.

Read the Microsoft Silverlight case study here.

PONTE VEDRA, Fla., — MDI Healthcare Solutions, Inc., announced today that two of the company’s senior executives will present a roundtable discussion at the prestigious CFO Rising Conference, Navigating The New Normal on Tuesday, March 9^th in Orlando FL. The discussion, entitled, Rx for Health Care: Why an Integrated Approach to Health Care Spend Can Lower Costs will be presented by Andy Dengos, SVP of Sales & Business Development and Rick Farris, VP of Sales.

As health care costs continue to rise—a predicted 7 percent this year alone-–companies are looking for effective ways to manage their exposure. Part of the problem is that many organizations do not know what they are paying for: they are rich in claims data, but information poor. MDI’s Andy Dengos and Rick Farris have been scheduled by the conference organizers to present an introduction to the multiple uses of analytics and predictive modeling in health care cost containment. The presentation will show corporate CFOs a multitude of tools to ensure cost savings as well as outline the benefits of unit cost management and an integrated approach to managing health care spending.

“In this age of ever evolving applications of data, an understanding of the role analytics and enhanced predictability can play in containing costs is really critical to corporations,” said Andy Dengos, MDI’s Sr. Vice President of Sales and Business Development.

CFO Rising is the signature conference hosted by CFO magazine, an award winning business of the Economist Group, reaching over 600,000 corporate executives around America. The CFO Rising Conference attracts between 300-400 senior financial executives. It examines issues that are pertinent to finance executives with clear corporate agendas.

PONTE VEDRA, Fla., — MDI Healthcare Solutions, Inc., based in Ponte Vedra, Florida proudly announced today that they will participate in Wolfson Children’s Hospital’s One to Grow On Ultra Marathon on Saturday, January 30th as a Loop Sponsor. As a sponsor of one of the five mile loops, MDI supports the runners and honors the children served by Wolfson Children’s Hospitals.

MDI takes pride in supporting the local community through a variety of charitable avenues, especially those that benefit children, education and healthcare.

“Participating in this marathon to benefit one of the finest children’s healthcare institutions in the United States is another demonstration of MDI’s commitment to the local area. We strive to help enrich the lives of the children in our community,” said Ted Willich, MDI Healthcare Solutions President.

MDI Healthcare Solutions, Inc. recently debuted the MDI Analytics Suite— a tool companies can use to gain control of their financial healthcare spend and predict future medical costs. MDI offers healthcare options, data analysis and prediction tools that utilize advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to help organizations maximize healthcare savings. MDI is committed to changing the current healthcare environment where companies find themselves data rich but information poor.

Jacksonville Business Journal – by Kimberly Morrison Staff Writer

MDI Government Healthcare Solutions on Friday said it landed a $30 million contract with the Bureau of Land Management to provide health care analytics, patient scheduling and a nationwide network for medical examinations.

The contract was awarded for a period of five years to provide services to the U.S. Department of the Interior bureau.

The Ponte Vedra-based division of MDI Holdings in December added the Predictive Index, a data analytics tool to predict future medical costs for business, to its mix of health care risk management solutions including claims monitoring and customer provider network offerings.

The company last year relocated to a new $20 million headquarters, which houses state-of-the-art information technology systems and a large collection of historical and local artwork.

The company employs more than 200 people between the two MDI Holdings subsidiaries, MDI Government Healthcare Services and MDI Healthcare Solutions.

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PONTE VEDRA, Fla., –  MDI Healthcare Solutions, based in Ponte Vedra, Florida, has announced the creation of the second-generation E.A.R.L.® adding to the MDI Analytics Suite—a collection of predictive analytics technologies that are revolutionizing healthcare risk management. E.A.R.L.® (Empowered Analysis and Reporting Log) was created with Microsoft Silverlight, a browser plug-in that powers rich interactive experiences through Web, desktop and mobile applications.

“Our customers have been using the E.A.R.L.® technology for almost two years,” said MDI Healthcare

Solutions President Ted Willich., “We have been working on this latest iteration for the better part of 2009, and what we’ve created is a detailed graphic representation of data that up until now has been very hard to understand.”

E.A.R.L.® is a user-friendly graphic tool that visualizes a patient’s medical history, including diagnoses, claims and pharmacy information. Through an interactive visual interpretation of the human body, users are able to review claim-supported patient history at a glance. Color identifies the severity of the affected organs, bones, and areas within the body, allowing customers to quickly focus on high risk situations. E.A.R.L.® is accessed through a secure portal by MDI’s customers, protecting patient identity and privacy.

The newest generation E.A.R.L.® was created with the help of Henry Lee of New Age Solution, LLC, a

Jacksonville-based web development company and Microsoft Silverlight partner.

The second-generation E.A.R.L.® is part of the company’s newly-launched MDI Analytics Suite which allows users to analyze and manipulate data to manage current and future healthcare costs. MDI’s driven staff, along with Silverlight’s rapid development capabilities, made it possible to create and implement this product in a very short timeframe.

“Silverlight enables a variety of business application scenarios, and Microsoft looks forward to seeing how the healthcare industry will benefit from MDI Healthcare Solutions’ new Silverlight-based E.A.R.L technology,” said Steve Sklepowich, director for Silverlight at Microsoft Corp. “E.A.R.L. is a great example of how companies can use Silverlight to power rich, line of business applications that provide users with an efficient, visual way to interpret data.”

Another component of the MDI Analytics Suite is the Predictive Index™ — a data analytics tool that allows customers to examine past and present healthcare costs, but most importantly predict future exposure. MDI’s world class technology provides business intelligence driven by diagnosis and healthcare spend. Through the Predictive Index™, MDI’s customers are able to access E.A.R.L® to gain a visual understanding of an individual’s medical history.

PONTE VEDRA, Fla., – MDI Holdings, one of the nation’s leading healthcare risk management companies, has made a healthful donation to Ponte Vedra/Palm Valley Rawlings Elementary School just in time for the holidays. MDI, based in Ponte Vedra, Florida, donated the labor, materials and trees to double the school’s orange grove to 60 adult trees.

“We are thrilled to become partners with PVPV Elementary,” said Richard Willich, MDI CEO. “This project is another example of our commitment to our local community and its schools.”

PVPV Elementary planted an orange grove five years ago to both educate and feed the students. The orange trees yield between 3,000 and 3,500 oranges a year and are picked to feed the students and faculty as part of the school’s Healthy Initiative, which includes the promotion of diet, exercise and healthy habits.

“This donation from MDI will allow us to sustain and expand our program,” said Principal Kathleen Furness. “The new trees are already bearing delicious Mineola Tangelos.”

The newly-planted trees will help the school double its available oranges during harvest and perhaps meet another goal of expanding the harvest to a surplus that could then become a revenue source for the school. Peak harvest is during the fall and winter months before the holiday break. During that time, all the oranges picked are available to students at no cost.

“That helps us provide healthy options and also defray the cost of providing those options to our students,” continued Furness, who said the orange tree project is one of the only of its kind in our area.

MDI and elementary school employees performed the physical labor needed to plant the new trees. This included planning for the trees, digging all the holes and installing these large trees on the campus. The donation equated to about $10,000.

PONTE VEDRA, Fla., – Medical Partners of America, an MDI Holdings company, announces it has changed its name and branding to reflect its suite of healthcare solution products and services. The company will now be known as MDI Healthcare Solutions and has started the transition to the new name, which will be complete in January 2010.

“This name more accurately reflects who we are and what we offer as a company,” said MDI Healthcare Solutions President Ted Willich. “This is a positive reflection of our growth this year and we are extremely excited about the new name and our expanding business.”

The current clients of MDI will not see a change in customer service, as the company has a long history of providing excellent service to its members, providers and customers.

For more than two decades, MDI, based in Nocatee, has focused its business on providing medical solutions. MDI Healthcare Solutions is constantly researching and adopting cutting-edge software applications and products to further help their customers monitor, control and predict their healthcare costs.

MDI healthcare Solutions is on the forefront of the future of healthcare, and its current suite of products reflects that. The company offers their Predictive Index, Claims Monitoring Services (CMS) and Custom Provider Network™ (CPN) services to self insured companies, healthcare providers, insurance companies, brokers, third party administrators as well as hospitals and providers.