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Coventry's pilot program features the deployment of home health medicaldevices to congestive heart failure (CHF) patients in a defined geographicregion, along with care management services and patient data exchange for thephysicians. This proactive pilot is designed to align member, physician andhealth plan incentives, resulting in improved and timely access to physiciancare. The program's purpose is to produce improved patient outcomes bycentralizing specialized, intense case management for chronically illpatients. Studies have shown that telemonitoring of CHF patients increases thepatient's quality of life and can reduce care delivery costs by avoidingunnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
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ICW's DCS will manage and securely distribute information to and from themedical devices in the patient's home. ICW's PXS serves as theinteroperability platform for Coventry's internal and external networks. ThePXS facilitates the seamless and secure exchange of information betweendisparate systems both inside and outside of the Coventry umbrella ofhealthcare services.
Dr. Vishu Jhaveri, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer forCoventry Health Care, and Executive Sponsor for the program, notes, "We hopeto develop specialized intense care management methodologies that bring provenresults to patients, providers and health plans. We can't accomplish thesegoals without exceptional technology. ICW's ten-year experience with providingproven eHealth solutions, along with their experience with other cardiac careprojects, makes them the obvious partner for Coventry's new program."
ICW is involved with two cardiac care projects in Europe: The Partnershipfor the Heart, a telemedicine collaborative with two prestigious universityhospitals, and AOK Plus, a health plan-driven telemedicine project for seriousCHF patients in the German state of Saxony.
Jeremy Coote, CEO of InterComponentWare Inc., adds, "The alignment ofpatient, provider and case manager is greatly improved by a trulyinteroperable technology platform capable of sharing data from a multitude ofsource systems. ICW has provided these solutions both within the U.S. andEurope with notable success and looks forward to working closely with Coventryas they launch this revolutionary program."
About InterComponentWare Inc.
InterComponentWare (ICW) is a leading international eHealth specialistwith networking solutions for creating a longitudinal view of patientinformation available at the point of care. Among other things, ICW developsand distributes software and hardware components for networking solutions forhospitals and resident physicians, the personal electronic health recordLifeSensor, and the health care IT infrastructure of electronic health cards.ICW is a major participant in the national electronic health card initiativesunderway in Germany, Austria and Bulgaria. ICW has locations in Germany,Austria, Switzerland, the USA and Bulgaria. Online athttp://www.icw-global.com
About Coventry Health Care Inc.
Coventry Health Care Inc. is a diversified national managed healthcarecompany based in Bethesda, Maryland, operating health plans, insurancecompanies, network rental and workers' compensation services companies.Through the Company's Commercial Business, Individual Consumer and GovernmentBusiness, and Specialty Business divisions, it provides a range of risk andfee-based managed care products and services to a range of individuals,employer
