Ranking on Top 100 Reflects Widespread Adoption and Growing Success of ZeOmega's Leading JIVA Care Management Platform.

FRISCO, Texas, Jun 29, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE)

ZeOmega LLC, a global provider of software solutions for collaborative care management, today announced it was named to the Healthcare Informatics (HCI) 100 for the first time, reflecting the strong success of Jiva(TM), ZeOmega's integrated, enterprise-wide care management platform.

"We are honored to be recognized by HCI as one of the top 100 healthcare technology vendors," said Sam Rangaswamy, CEO of ZeOmega. "It underscores the accelerating acceptance and growth JIVA is enjoying in the marketplace, as health plans, TPAs, , medical and care management professionals turn to our proven, patient-centric solution to improve care quality, patient safety and outcomes, and reduce cost."

JIVA, which includes electronic health records, personalized care plans, decision support tools, analytics and rules-engine driven workflow automation, is currently deployed by insurers, third-party administrators, QIO's and organizations providing disease management, care management and specialty health services covering more than 20 million lives across the United States.

"Our focus on stream lined process management, integrated analytics, correspondence management, HRA and rules driven care management has enabled us to scale new heights. Our platform has the best combination of features and functions with a competitive total cost of ownership that guarantees ROI for our clients," said Sam Rangaswamy. "We look forward to continuing to execute on our growth strategy and climbing up the ranks of the HCI 100 in the years to come."

About ZeOmega LLC
ZeOmega LLC, based in Texas, is a global provider of software solutions for Collaborative Healthcare Management. ZeOmega's suite of care management software, which includes EHRs, personalized care plans, decision support and portals, transforms traditional episodic-based care management into a proactive and collaborative population healthcare management. ZeOmega's flagship product, Jiva, is the only platform in the market that enables health care payers to implement enterprise wide collaboration by deploying member services, medical management, appeals and grievance management and care management in a single platform to give them a holistic view of the member across their enterprise to better manage member satisfaction and costs.

With its strong healthcare domain expertise, emphasis on integrated information management, and decision support for population and benefits management, ZeOmega is the right technology partner for Health Plans, Disease Management Organizations, Medical Management Organizations, Third Party Administrators, and other organizations providing Medical and Care Management services.

ZeOmega and Community Health Plan are pleased to announce that ZeOmega's flagship care management software JIVA was successfully deployed to integrate Community Health Plan's utilization management, case management, disease management and population management programs. Community Health Plan uses the platform to serve more than 230,000 State and Federal program members in Washington State.

"We were looking for an integrated, patient-centric technology solution that would help us increase quality and value of services we deliver to our patients," said Sandra Hewett, Director of Care Management. "The JIVA system will help us drive efficiency, provide data-driven decision-making and improved outcomes for our patients. We desired transparent access to claims and eligibility data, member HRAs, surveys, clinical pathways and other patient information to enable us to proactively identify at-risk members and initiate customized care plans and management strategies for the member. We are now well-positioned to meet the future critical demands of our organization for integration, connection and future strategic goals, business requirements and contractual obligations. We have leveraged our claims system with a complementary platform that is fully integrated across all lines of business."

Community Health Plan's mission is to develop and ensure delivery of accessible, managed health care services to meet the needs and improve the health status of the communities, while making managed health care participation beneficial for community-responsive providers. CHP requires the integration of medical, disease and population management programs using a patient-centric approach to fulfill this mission. Community Health Plan also emphasizes the need for communication and collaboration amongst its community health centers, hospitals and affiliate provider offices.

JIVA meets Community Health Plan's need for an integrated platform that enables community health centers, hospitals and affiliate providers collaborate with Community Health Plan's care managers using powerful tools centered around an extensible EHR driven care plan. In deploying JIVA, Community Health Plan will also tap into ZeOmega's extensive domain expertise deploying JIVA for public chronic care programs. JIVA currently supports medical management and chronic care management for public populations in more than 10 states.

"Given the current economic climate and the shortfalls in public health care spending the success of this project underlines the immediate benefits of deploying our flag ship product JIVA," said Sam Rangaswamy, CEO of ZeOmega. "Our integrated approach to health care management using a member centric view and our speed and ease of deployment using agile methodologies give our payer clients specific and immediate opportunities to improve efficiencies and reduce medical cost and we are pleased that we were able to demonstrate this at CHP."

About ZeOmega
ZeOmega LLC, based in Texas, is a global provider of software solutions for Collaborative Healthcare Management. ZeOmega's suite of care management software, which includes EHRs, personalized care plans, decision support and portals, transforms traditional episodic-based care management into a proactive and collaborative population healthcare management. ZeOmega's flag ship product Jiva is the only platform in the market that enables health care payers to implement enterprise wide collaboration by deploying member services, medical management, appeals and grievance management and care management in a single platform to give them a holistic view of the member across their enterprise to better manage member satisfaction and costs.

With its strong healthcare domain expertise, emphasis on integrated information management, and decision support for population and benefits management, ZeOmega is the right technology partner for Health Plans, Disease Management Organizations, Medical Management Organizations, Third Party Administrators, IPAs and other organizations providing Medical and Care Management services.

For further information, visit : www.zeomega.com

About Community Health Plan
Community Health Plan is a non-profit organization providing managed care for more than 230,000 individuals and families throughout Washington State. It is the state's sixth largest provider of the Basic Health Plan and the second largest health plan serving members of the state's Medicaid program, including Healthy Options, the State Children's Health Insurance Program and GA-U. The health plan's delivery system includes over 300 primary care clinics, 1,600 providers, 8,000 specialists and 90 hospitals. Community Health Plan features an incentive program that rewards its members for getting the preventive care they, and their family, need.

For further information, visit : www.chpw.org

ZeOmega is proud to be a sponsor and exhibitor at the AHIP Institute 2009, to be held in June 3-5, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.

As an industry leader in care management software, ZeOmega provides health plans and other stakeholders with an enterprise platform, enabling proactive, collaborative population health management of members. ZeOmega's clients utilize JIVA to Identify Risk, Coordinate Care, Educate Members, Influence Behaviors and Track Outcomes.

Connecting Stakeholders to Improve Care.
Medical Home Connects Healthcare Stakeholders to Improve Care
Article: Mr. Sathya Rangaswamy (Founder, CEO and CTO of ZeOmega)
Posted on: May 6, 2009

With each passing day, a concept formally called the "patient-centered medical home" is gaining momentum. Under this concept, a primary care practice would be the patient's regular source of care or "medical home," with teams composed of primary care physicians (PCPs), registered nurses, nurse practitioners and physician assistants who coordinate services across the continuum of care. The goals are to improve outcomes and reduce overall costs by promoting preventive care; maintain patient health by leveraging information technology to foster clinical collaboration and data exchange; streamline follow-up visit requests and referrals to specialists, hospitals and other care settings; and empower patients to participate in and make better health care decisions

Last year, Minnesota approved legislation to establish medical homes by July 1, 2010, for all patients in the state, beginning with those suffering from chronic illnesses who are publicly or privately insured or employees of the state. In November 2008, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal began discussing the creation of medical homes as a way to deliver more comprehensive and efficient services to Medicaid enrollees. Meanwhile, Medicare plans to launch a medical home demonstration project in approximately eight states in 2010.

This emerging movement represents a significant step in the right direction toward achieving higher-quality, cost-effective care. Proponents have called for medical homes to be launched by physicians, but it makes more sense for payers to take the lead since they have the data, technology resources and the financial incentive to reduce costs by encouraging their insured populations to maintain and improve patient health.

There is no question that physicians will determine whether or not medical homes will succeed, but they simply lack the resources to launch and nurture them successfully. In contrast, payers are better positioned to facilitate the transition to a medical home care model. First, they have a longitudinal view of what is going on with an individual patient because they receive bills from providers across the health system. The same cannot be said for physicians who may be unaware of the care their patients receive from other providers.

Second, only 17 percent of doctors nationwide own a basic or fully functional electronic health record (EHR) system, according to a survey published in the July 3, 2008, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. This low adoption rate severely limits the ability of physicians to launch medical homes on any meaningful scale, much less achieve the required level of coordination through electronic data exchange. On the other hand, insurers already have claims data containing valuable information such as patients' diagnoses, medications and laboratory tests in an electronic format. Payers can leverage that data into a secure, payer-based EHR that all medical home stakeholders can easily access. Although the stakeholders ideally should also enter and update their own EHRs, it will be years before physician EHR adoption reaches the critical mass necessary to make that level of physician-patient interaction a reality.

Third, physician compensation is tied primarily to patient volume, which poses another hurdle. Usually, the more patients a physician sees daily, the higher his/her income. As a result, physicians currently have little incentive to adjust their practices to accommodate a medical home model, which, by definition, requires doctors to earmark considerable time to patient encounters, monitoring, case management and follow-up. Payers can easily overcome this barrier by providing physicians with incentives such as additional reimbursement with built-in quality measures to perform these activities. The resulting reduction in costly health care interventions would offset additional payer costs.

In the long term, such reimbursement could also help reverse the accelerating shortage of PCPs. Low pay and long hours are driving many PCPs to retire early and medical students to spurn family and internal medicine in favor of higher-paying specialties that enable them to pay off their huge medical school debt more quickly and enjoy a better lifestyle. According to the May/June 2008 issue of Health Affairs, the shortage of PCPs is expected reach 35,000 to 44,000 by 2025. By contributing to the competitiveness of primary care compensation, insurers can help make primary care more attractive to current practitioners and future doctors.

Back to the future... but better

The medical home concept is not new - it is an informal practice that has been around for decades. Many PCPs previously coordinated care for their patients, but this became more challenging as medicine grew more complex. Recent technological advances have provided an opportunity for the old medical home model to evolve to meet current needs, akin to the evolution of the car from a Ford Model T to a Ferrari.

Over the last decade, Internet access has become ubiquitous. By combining an EHR with Internet technologies to create a Web-based EHR, insurers can position themselves to minimize start-up costs and compress the time required to set up medical homes, to influence patient behavior and streamline care delivery.

A Web-based EHR provides the glue that binds the various stakeholders that comprise a community-based medical home: the PCP team, patients, health plans, hospitals and other care facilities, specialists and ancillary caregivers. It can streamline access to information, empower physicians and patients to make better health decisions, and enable medical home participants to communicate, collaborate, shape and manage a patient's medical needs on a near real-time basis.

Technological advances in workflow automation, when deployed in conjunction with Web-based EHRs, can solve access problems that will be exacerbated by a PCP shortage. For example, patients do not always seek the necessary care or refill prescriptions. These patient behaviors, which have always been problematic, are likely to increase due to the current economic downturn. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey in October 2008 found that 47 percent of the public reported that someone in their family cut or skipped medications, or postponed or delayed seeking needed treatment over the past year compared with 42 percent six months earlier. Information technology solutions available today can automatically identify these patients, enabling the medical home team to focus its efforts on improving such behaviors.

The advanced information technology solutions of today can save time and reduce inefficiencies by eliminating information silos and care fragmentation. As a result, medical home teams can manage and provide services more effectively to a larger patient pool than was possible using traditional approaches.

Behind the curtain
The "health coach" is often described as the linchpin of a successful medical home. These coaches - registered nurses and social workers - would typically be employed by insurers to help patients manage their health by providing telephone, e-mail or in-person support as appropriate. For instance, health coaches could assist the significant percentage of patients that cut pills or skip doses to obtain samples from physicians, or to apply for financial or prescription aid. Thus, health coaches' proactive outreach can promote adherence to the treatment plan and help prevent patients' health from worsening or developing into a chronic condition.

Health coaches would also ensure that PCPs are involved in and driving the care plan every step of the way. They would notify physicians when problems arise and facilitate communication and coordination among physicians, patients and the health plan.

Other features of a medical home may include:

• 24/7 nurse line to answer questions and provide support for patients.
• Evidence-based guidelines to guide coach and physician decision-making.
• Health risk assessment (HRA) to identify patients' medical needs and those at risk. The Web-based EHR platform underpinning medical homes should be capable of generating an automated care plan according to each patient's HRA, industry-accepted care guidelines, and the insurer's basic business rules. The latter includes alerting nurses when patients are admitted or discharged, reminding physicians to complete an HRA for new patients, and identifying when patients are due for routine screenings. The platform should also allow clinicians to customize care plans to meet patients' specific needs.
• Financial incentives for physicians. Without additional compensation, initiatives to establish medical homes will fail because physicians won't participate in them. And why should they? Medical homes are time and resource intensive, and doctors should be paid adequately for undertaking them.
• Integration with reporting and predictive analytic tools. These tools allow insurers to measure outcomes, identify patients at risk and avert serious problems from occurring.
• Integration with home-based monitoring devices that enable patients to measure and transmit vital signs, including blood pressure and sugar levels, to physicians by phone or electronically.

Return on investment
Recognizing the value of care management, payers have invested in various care management initiatives in the past, but have yet to demonstrate a consistently significant return on investment. However, the medical home offers the opportunity to shift those payer dollars to a platform that delivers tangible results with enhanced quality of care and reduction in unnecessary hospitalizations or ER visits. The looming confluence of clinician shortages and the aging population will drive medical costs considerably higher. As the first of 78 million Baby Boomers attain 65 years of age in 2011, the U.S. is woefully unprepared to meet their health care needs, due partly to a shortage of PCPs, specialists and nurses, according to the Institute of Medicine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the chronically ill account for 75 percent of the nation's $2 trillion medical care costs. That percentage is likely to grow in the future if the health system fails to improve access or actively help the chronically ill manage their health more effectively. While a more coordinated approach to care will aid every patient, the chronically ill population stands to gain the most because they will receive better and timelier care. Payers - private and public - will reap a significant return on investment as improved management of chronically ill patients' results in reduced hospitalization costs while delivering better quality of care.

Mutually beneficial
A medical home is a strategic initiative, not a luxury. It is critical that the industry quickly transition to a coordinated care approach across all settings. Any inaction or delays will likely result in adverse consequences for overall health care costs and patients given the growing strain on the health system exerted by the aging population, physician shortage and chronically ill population.

In light of the differences that exist between health plans and physicians, payer-sponsored medical home initiatives are likely to arouse controversy. But as long as physicians are in control of the care plan and rewarded appropriately, stakeholders should be able to find common ground.

Payer-sponsored medical homes are intended to give physicians the administrative, technological and financial tools they need to deliver better care. Smart, progressive insurers that embrace the concept will be able to reallocate scarce resources more efficiently and gain a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining patients and employers. Furthermore, government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, which are facing severe financial problems and funding cuts, as well as their covered populations, will benefit from the savings realized through improved quality of care and better patient outcomes.

ZeOmega is proud to be a Gold Sponsor for the 2009 Milliman User Group Forum, to be held April 19-22, Miami's famous Doral Golf Resort and Spa.

ZeOmega, a leading provider of enterprise care management software, transforms traditional episodic based care management into proactive, collaborative healthcare management. ZeOmega's partnership with Milliman Care Guidelines empowers clients to Identify Risk, Educate Members, Manage Incentives, Influence Behaviors, Coordinate Care, Track Outcomes and Measure Results.

Please stop by the ZeOmega booth see a demo of our platform and enter a drawing to win a Nordstrom gift certificate.

ZeOmega will sponsor the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress, to be held in April 14-16, Marriott Wardman Hotel, Washington, DC.

The 6th Annual World Health Care Congress is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care. The 2009 conference will convene over 1,700 CEOs, senior executives and government officials from the nation's largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and leading government agencies.

ZeOmega will be a silver sponsor at the upcoming PYCON 20009 to be held in March 23-27, 2009 in Chicago, at Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel, 5440, N River Rd, Des Plaines, IL 60018.

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ZeOmega is pleased to announce that McLaren Health Plan, a Michigan based Health Maintenance Organization and a subsidiary of McLaren Health Care, one of the top 25 integrated health care systems in the United States, has selected ZeOmega's flagship care management software JIVA to deploy an integrated medical management, disease management and population management program. McLaren Health Plan and Health Advantage (TPA) will use the platform to serve more than 194,000, Medicaid, Commercial and Health Advantage members throughout Michigan.

McLaren Health Plan's mission is to improve the health and well being of the people of Michigan through the promotion of illness prevention, the enhancement of their health status and by providing access to quality health services. McLaren Health Plan seeks to fulfill this mission using a patient-centric approach to care and by emphasizing the communication and collaboration amongst its hospitals, outpatient facilities, affiliate provider offices and members

We are very pleased to add ZeOmega as an important partner as we continue to improve the lives of our members, said Beth Caughlin, Vice President of Health Services. JIVA will facilitate the identification and enrollment of members in need of critical care into our disease management programs. JIVA will provide our medical management team a critical platform that will enable them to reach out to our members, develop care plans, and actively engage them to improve health outcomes.

In deploying JIVA, McLaren Health Plan will also tap into ZeOmega's extensive domain expertise in deploying JIVA for Commercial and Medicaid populations. JIVA currently supports Medicaid chronic care programs in more than 10 states and clients with more than 10 million commercial lives. McLaren Health Plan will use JIVA for managing Asthma, Diabetes and Hypertension conditions.

Ted Ryan, Vice President of ZeOmega said, We are honored to be a part of the McLaren Health Plan team. Throughout the process, McLaren Health Plan's sole focus was on quality of care and patient satisfaction for their members. We are confident that JIVA will enable McLaren Health Plan to achieve their vision.

About ZeOmega
ZeOmega, based in Texas, is a premier provider of software solutions for Collaborative Healthcare Management. ZeOmega provides web-based software to integrate information and workflow across the care continuum. Our EHR-centric platform transforms traditional episodic care management into proactive collaborative healthcare management through use of personalized care plans, assessments, decision support, and rules engine-driven workflow automation.

With its strong healthcare domain expertise, emphasis on integrated information management, and decision support for population and benefits management, ZeOmega is the right technology partner for Health Plans, Disease Management Organizations, Medical Management Organizations, Third Party Administrators, IPAs and other organizations providing Medical and Care Management services.
For further information, visit www.zeomega.com

About McLaren Health Plan
McLaren Health Plan is a licensed HMO offering benefits to Medicaid and Commercial members in 20 Michigan counties including Arenac, Bay, Clinton, Crawford, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia, Isabella, Lapeer, Macomb, Montcalm, Oakland, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Roscommon, Saginaw, Shiawassee and Tuscola. There are approximately 194,000 members enrolled and 7,000 participating providers in McLaren Health Plan and Health Advantage. McLaren Health Plan's mission is to improve the health and well being of the people of Michigan through the promotion of illness prevention, the enhancement of their health status and by providing access to quality health services.

MHP is a subsidiary of McLaren Health Care, one of the largest health care systems in the state of Michigan reaching nearly 35 percent of Michigan residents through more than 150 locations, 15,000 employees and 3,600 physicians. The nonprofit system includes: eight regional hospitals; ambulatory care centers; a home care and hospice division; and a licensed commercial and Medicaid HMO.
For further information, visit www.mclarenhealthplan.org

Transition care management reduces costs Dec 01, 2008;

Today, many payers are focused on utilization management (UM) to evaluate the appropriateness, medical need, and efficiency of various healthcare services for patients based on established payer criteria. That broad category of proactive healthcare case management often does not properly address an emerging area that significantly impacts healthcare costs - transition care management.

ZeOmega is proud to be a sponsor of 13th Annual Health Management Congress, to be held in July 22 - 24, Disney Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL.

ZeOmega will be showcasing the latest capabilities of its care management software in booth #302.

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ZeOmega is proud to be a sponsor of the AHIP Institute 2008, to be held in June 18 - 20, Moscone Center West, San Francisco. California.

As an industry leader in care management software, ZeOmega provides health plans and other stakeholders with an enterprise platform, enabling proactive, collaborative population health management of members. ZeOmega's clients utilize JIVA to Identify Risk, Coordinate Care, Educate Members, Influence Behaviors and Track Outcomes.

ZeOmega featured with APS Healthcare in American Health Executive magazine.
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ZeOmega will sponsor the 5th Annual World Health Care Congress, to be held in April 21 - 23, Marriott Wardman Hotel, Washington, DC.

The 5th Annual World Health Care Congress is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care. The 2008 conference will convene over 2,000 CEOs, senior executives and government officials from the nation's largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and leading government agencies.

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ZeOmega is pleased to announce that a leading health care delivery system in the northwest has chosen to deploy JIVA for delivering its care management services. JIVA will help deliver medical, disease and population management services to populations served by the network impacting close to 600,000 lives.

ZeOmega is proud to announce that it has launched Jiva for a leading integrated care management services vendor providing services to over 2 Million commercial lives. The platform allows multi disciplinary teams located across the nation to collaborate on medical case and care management services. The platform provides a comprehensive view of a patient across the care continuum enabling care managers to provide the right intervention at the right time thereby improving operational efficiencies and outcomes. The full gamut of business processes from wellness transactions to large case notifications are managed with Jiva including Utilization, complex case, disease, maternity and grievance management in a single platform eliminating traditional silos.

ZeOmega is proud to be a sponsor of the AHIP Business Forum 2007, to be held November
12th - 14th at the Renaissance Chicago, Illinois.

As an industry leader in care management software, ZeOmega provides health plans and other stakeholders with an enterprise platform, enabling proactive, collaborative population health management of members. ZeOmega's clients utilize JIVA to Identify Risk, Coordinate Care, Educate Members, Influence Behaviors and Track Outcomes.

Stop by the ZeOmega booth to see a demo of our system and enter a drawing to win a Nordstrom gift certificate.

ZeOmega is proud to be a Gold Sponsor for the 2007 Milliman User Group Forum, to be held November 4th - 7th at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort and Spa in Dana Point, California.

ZeOmega, a leading provider of enterprise care management software, transforms traditional episodic based episodic-based care management into proactive, collaborative healthcare management. ZeOmega's partnership with Milliman Care Guidelines empowers clients to Identify Risk, Educate Members, Manage Incentives, Influence Behaviors, Coordinate Care, Track Outcomes and Measure Results.

Please stop by the ZeOmega booth see a demo of our platform and enter a drawing to win a Nordstrom gift certificate.

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ZeOmega will be displaying its platform for Medical Management at the 12th Annual Health Management Congress, being held September 24th - 26th at the Disneyland Hotel, in Anaheim, California.

ZeOmega's integrated UM, CM, DM software provides portal access for Providers, Members, and Carriers, to promote collaborative, proactive, population healthcare management through Wellness and Disease Management Programs. Stop by booth 304 to talk with our team and enter a drawing to win a Nordstrom gift certificate.

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ZeOmega will be showcasing its software solutions for healthcare at DMAA's 9h Annual Disease Management Leadership Forum, September 16th - September 19th, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Visit booth #601 to learn how ZeOmega's suite of products can help transform your traditional episodic based care management process into proactive, collaborative, population health management. Talk with our team and enter a drawing to win a Nordstrom gift certificate.

ZeOmega will be showcasing its platforms for Medical Management at AHIP's Annual Meeting June 20th - June 22nd at the Wynn Las Vegas.

ZeOmega's suite of products transforms traditional episodic-based care management into a proactive and collaborative population healthcare management. Stop by booth #1238 to talk with our team and enter a drawing to win a Nordstrom gift certificate.

ZeOmega will be displaying its software solutions for Medical Management at the Disease Management Colloquium, being held May 7th - May 9th at the Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jiva, ZeOmega's integrated UM, CM, and DM platform, transforms traditional, episodic care management into collaborative, population healthcare management. Providers, Members, and Carriers can be proactive in managing a member's disease thru the utilization of portals and decision support tools. Stop by to talk with our team and enter a drawing to win a Nordstrom gift certificate.

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ZeOmega's flagship care management software "JIVA" will help manage Medicaid populations in 9 states by 3Q 2007. As of April 2007, JIVA is already live at Medicaid programs in 5 states. Client implementations are currently in progress in 4 more states and are expected to go live during the next six months.

"This is solid testimony to JIVA's versatility as a care management platform", says Nandini Rangaswamy, Executive Vice President for Business Development" Because of the ease with which JIVA can be configured and extended, our clients were able to rapidly and successfully deploy JIVA across multiple states to suit custom state program requirements.

One of the key decisions we made early on was to make our solution agnostic between various care management approaches. As a result JIVA today has a powerful set of tools that enable it to meet the needs of different flavors of care management including Medicare/Medicaid chronic care, Employer sponsored wellness and care management, Member-centric care, Provider-centric care management and more.

Our clientele today includes some of the nation's largest disease management companies, TPAs and Fortune 100 insurance companies. We are confident that JIVA is poised to see more successes in 2007."

With an integrated approach to care management that enables seamless information flow and smooth interaction between patients, providers, nurses, care coordinators and health coaches. JIVA is the right delivery platform for population health care management.

About ZeOmega
ZeOmega, LLC, based in Texas, is a global provider of software solutions for medical management. ZeOmega's suite of care management software, which includes EHRs, personalized care plans and decision support, transforms traditional episodic-based care management into a proactive and collaborative population healthcare management. For further information, visit www.zeomega.com

McKesson Adds ZeOmega to Alliance Partner Program;
McKesson's InterQual(R) Criteria, Healthcare's Premier Evidence-Based Medical Guidelines, Will Be Integrated Into ZeOmega's Web-Based Care Management Tools.

September 19, 2006
NEWTON, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE) Sept. 19, 2006 - McKesson Corporation, the world's leading healthcare services company and largest provider of clinical decision support solutions, has added ZeOmega, a global care management software vendor, to its rapidly expanding Alliance Partner Program. Through this integration, healthcare organizations that use JIVA and KRIYA, ZeOmega's Web-based care management tools, will have access to McKesson's InterQual(R) Criteria to support evidence-based decisions during utilization, case and disease management.

About ZeOmega
ZeOmega, LLC, located in Frisco, Texas, is a global provider of IT solutions with a focus on business process management solutions for healthcare and workers' compensation organizations. ZeOmega also provides software solutions for content management, event management and e-learning. For further information, visit www.zeomega.com

About McKesson Corporation
McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), currently ranked 16th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes and improving the quality and safety of patient care. Over the course of its 173-year history, McKesson has grown to provide pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum of care; healthcare information technology for hospitals, physicians, homecare and payers; hospital and retail pharmacy automation; and services for manufacturers and payers designed to improve outcomes for patients. For more information, visit us at www.mckesson.com

ZeOmega, a leading provider of integrated software solutions for Care Management, and Milliman Care Guidelines®, a recognized industry leader in providing evidence-based clinical guidelines, announced an agreement to integrate the evidence-based Milliman Care Guidelines® with ZeOmega's Integrated Care Management Platform, JIVA.

This Alliance is an important step for us to accomplish our strategic goals. ZeOmega's integrated suite of Care Management solutions empower Clinicians and Care Managers to assimilate information about a member and make decisions based on a holistic view of the members health status.

ZeOmega is pleased to announce that a leading health care quality improvement organization in the Midwest selected ZeOmega's medical management platform for its organization. The organization which provides services to state agencies in more than seven states plans to use the platform for its utilization management and physician review programs.

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We are pleased to announce that we have entered into an agreement to build a process management solution for a leading Independent Review Organization (IRO) based on the west coast. ZeOmega's business process management solutions cover a broad spectrum of process automation, web based components and help medical management entities such as IRO's reengineer their process and operations for the Web. ZeOmega was chosen over other bidders for its innovative solutions and deep domain expertise in UM CM and DM process management.

This agreement further cements our presence as a leading technology and process management solutions provider for medical and population health management.

October 12, 2005 Frisco, TX - ZeOmega is pleased to announce that it recently received HIPAA EDI certification for its Medical Management Solutions. This certification given by HCCO attests that ZeOmega's medical management solutions JIVA for Health Care, MAYA for IROs and KRIYA for Workers compensation satisfy the requirements of the Federal Health Insurance Portability and accountability act (HIPAA) as it pertains to EDI transactions.

This certification is a key milestone for ZeOmega in its mission to provide cutting edge technology solutions to the health care industry. It reinforces our commitment to our clients in providing leading solutions that meet industry standards.

JIVA is ZeOmega's medical management platform for health care that integrates Utilization, Case and Disease management. With an emphasis on integrated information management and decision support for population and benefits management ZeOmega is the right technology partner for DM vendors, UM and case management vendors, Health plans, TPAs, IPAs, PHOs and community health access programmes.

MAYA is ZeOmega's medical management solution for Independent Review Organizations covering a workflows like, Physician Reviews, Peer Reviews, IME/RMEs. The solution's capabilities in electronic documentation, automated reporting and auditing enables clients to streamline workflows, dramatically improve process efficiencies and reduce costs.

KRIYA is ZeOmega's medical management solution for Workers Compensation that integrates workflows such as UM, Peer Review, Field and Telephonic Case Management and RME/IMEs. With its flexibility to incorporate state specific care guidelines for workers compensation, KRIYA enables TPAs, IROs and disability management vendors to overcome process constraints and provide medical management services across states while adhering to statute's, reducing costs and improving accountability.

We will be integrating the industries leading ODG guidelines into our product platform. Users of our web based solutions can now rely on industry standard benchmarks and best practices to make informed decisions and improve outcomes in a seamless fashion.

Think BIG!! Is the theme of the Society of Independent Show Organizers (SISO) Executive Conference, August 15-17 2005 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA. ZeOmega will be presenting best practices on setting up web match making systems at sponsored events. This is a growing and profitable business model for trade shows looking to increase value for attendees.

"Can We All Get Together?" or "Finding the Needle in the Trade Show Hay Stack" There are many different "matchmaking" systems and services that can help your exhibitors, attendees, speakers and sponsors find each other, prove the value of your event, increase the networking effect, and possibly even help a prospective attendee or exhibitor sell themselves on your event's match to their needs. This technology has the potential to be BIG, so to lead the curve, learn about what's out there in this fast paced roundtable.

We released version 1.2 of our open source project management product.

A leading managed care organization providing services for Workers compensation has entered into an agreement to use Kriya, ZeOmegas product for medical management and cost containment for Workers compensation. Kriya is offered as an ASP based service and will enable end to end life cycle management of workers compensation cases. An ASP based pay as you use service guarantees ROI for the end user while improving operational efficiencies.

ZeOmega will be present at the National CMSA conference to be held at Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, FL between June 21-25. We will be showcasing our medical management solutions for group health and workers compensation at booth #209. If you are a self-insured, TPA, payer or any type of medical management entity, please visit us at the conference for a demo of our products and to learn how ZeOmega can help your organization.

ZeOmega today signed a partnership agreement with Enfold Systems, a leading provider of Plone solutions for Desktops and Content Management. As part of the agreement, ZeOmega will be a reseller for Enfold's products such as the Enfold Plone Desktop, Enfold Enterprise Proxy, and Enterprise Server. ZeOmega believes this partnership will strengthen its offerings in Open Source Consulting and is excited to be working with Enfold Systems. For more details contact plone at zeomega dot com

ZeOmega will be showcasing its Medical Management Solutions at the DFW CMSA conference to be held at the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas,TX near DFW airport between April 21-23. If you are a self-insured, TPA, payer or any type of medical management entity, please visit us at booth # C-307 to see a demo of our solutions and learn how we can help your organization.

3i Infotech (www.icici-infotech.com), a leading provider of information technology solutions, announced today a technology partnership with ZeOmega (www.zeomega.com), a leading provider of workflow solutions for managed care. With this partnership PREMIA(TM) Health, a health benefits administration platform from 3i Infotech will be integrated with JIVA, a UM UR and case management platform from ZeOmega to provide its customers with end-to-end solutions for claims administration and Medical management.

ZeOmega announces the launch of a maternity management portal as an extension to its JIVA medical management platform.

The portal will allow members of health plans to enroll for maternity management services on the web. The system will check for eligibility before enrollment and enable medical management companies to manage such encounters via the web and report on these services.

The portal enables ease of content and community management on the web using Plone the state of the art open source content management platform. Using Plone's advanced membership and community features, a TPA or medical management company can scale their operations to manage large populations.

A leading global process and change management group The Business process management group will be using ZeOmega's expertise with PHP, Postnuke, MySQL and Linux to launch their new Portal. The CMS will support new roles, workflow policies, banner ad management and Event management to support the growth in membership and viewership. The new site will also be hosted on ZeOmega's managed hosting infrastructure underlining ZeOmegas ability to provide end to end solutions for content management and web publishing.

ZeOmega has secured a contract to build a medical management platform for a major health care group based in Texas. ZeOmega will customize its "JIVA" care management platform in addition to integration with PPO networks, eligibility and repricing systems. JIVA's web and standards based interfaces, advanced encounter/episode management, support for customizable workflow and notification management abilities were key factors in helping us secure this contract.

ZeOmega is happy to sponsor the 2nd Plone conference in Vienna, Austria. We are fortunate to continue to be involved with the Plone community which is a like minded group of hackers that continues to create great software.

Please follow the link for more details 2nd Plone conference.

ZeOmega celebrated its third anniversary during the month of April 2004. To mark our growth we have added another feather to the cap, by becoming a Sponsor Member of the Python Software Foundation As committed supporters of Zope - Python, we are proud to be a part of the community.

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ZeOmega will be showcasing its Medical Management Solutions at the DFW CMSA conference to be held at the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas,TX near DFW airport between April 21-23. If you are a self-insured, TPA, payer or any type of medical management entity, please visit us at booth # C-307 to see a demo of our solutions and learn how we can help your organization.

ZeOmega is proud to sponsor Pycon for the second consecutive year, a conference organized by the members of the Python Community.

Pycon 2004 is scheduled to be held in George Washington University, Washington D.C from March 24-26.

ZeOmega announces the launch of ZEPP, an Intranet portal for Project Planning and Resource Management for the Center for Information Technology and Management. CITM is part of the School of Management (SOM) of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), USA.

As a CITM partner promoting open source, ZeOmega is all set to support and maintain this Plone powered project management portal for the CITM community.

ZeOmega entered into an agreement with a leading media and computer based training company based in the UK. As part of this agreement ZeOmega will build a Plone based Content Acquisition and Management system which will serve as the base to build uniquely structured e-learning programs. The CMS will be integrated with an LMS also built in Plone to service pure web based OR a combination of CDROM and web connected user communities.

We are proud to announce ZeOmega's sponsorship for the first Plone Conference which was held in New Orleans, USA from Oct 15-17, 2003.

SISO (Society of Independent Show Organizers) Executive Conference
August 25-27, Providence, RI

Gartner nominates ZeOmega as tech partner provider for providing "Technology That Exceeds Organizers Goals". Along with Gartner we will be presenting the content management and CRM platform built for them. It allows Gartner conference attendees to register and schedule one on one meetings amongst other things. The platform provides business process automation and CRM services for the event management domain.

"Jiva" our flagship web based care and medical management software application was launched for the group health care market. It is a HIPAA compliant web based software service that allows telephonic case managers to co-ordinate collaborate and communicate on cases using the internet. The system supports pre-authorizations, case management, referrals, cost savings summary, reports, payroll and invoicing.

It is ideal for medical management and cost containment companies who can streamline their business process using "JIVA" without having to spend money on IT staff.

We are proud to announce ZeOmega's sponsorship for the second major Python and Zope Conference in Europe (Euro Python Conference) to be held in Charleroi, Belgium on June 25-27, 2003. The European Python and Zope Conference is an initiative by the Euro Python Conference Team to bring together Python and Zope users and developers. This was also an opportunity for those who are interested in these technologies to learn more about them.

We are proud to announce ZeOmega's sponsorship of PyCon 2003, the first annual Python conference of the Python Software Foundation for developers. The Event is scheduled to be held between the 26th and 28th of March, 2003, at George Washington University's Cafritz Conference Center in Washington DC.

ZeOmega launches " MAYA ", an integrated web based application service for medical cost containment in the Workers compensation industry. MAYA integrates peer review, RME, IME and case management processes on a single web based platform using Zope and MySQL.

ZeOmega signs contract with a major third party administrator in Texas to process medicals for peer review. ZeOmega's service will lower processing costs for the TPA and significantly improve turn around times for the reviewers. Our Zope based workflow engine seamlessly integrates with the TPA's business process enabling paperless process automation. ZeOmega's delivery model guarantees an ROI of over 50% to the TPA. We are currently working with other medical cost containment entities to provide similar services.

ZeOmega will be showcasing its Medical Management Solutions at the 4th Annual Federal workers compensation conference to be held at the Anatole, Dallas TX. If you are a TPA, or a medical management entity providing services to Federal agencies please visit us at booth #20 to see a demo of our solutions and learn how we can help your organization.

As per the agreement ZeOmega will build a project and document management portal to support the clients consulting practice in financial risk analysis. The project management portal will be built using Zope CMF to be used by the clients consultants who work on projects from different locations all over Europe. The solution will allow them to collaborate using the web and create a client extranet for secure and protected access to project information. In addition to group ware features the system will also contain a web interface to the clients CVS repository for source code control. Authentication will be via LDAP. Zope CMF with its ready to plug in content types and 3 party products is ideal to meet the clients aggressive timelines.

We announce the signing of an agreement with Ministry of Education, Govt. of Venezuela in November 2001 to create an e-learning platform for "RENADIT", a project to advance technology awareness among teachers.

ZeOmega is created on 4th April, 2001.