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Bristol Park Medical Group Announces Deployment and Successful Audit Review of Innovative Integrated Reporting System to Measure and Affect P4P Clinical Measures and Improve Patient Care

 Santa Ana, CA -- Bristol Park Medical Group has successfully deployed and passed audit review of an automated data reporting product to self-report its P4P clinical measures to the IHA for the 2004 measurement year as well as monitor key clinical measures across their entire member population. The Ascender^TM application suite from Infotech Systems Management is at the heart of the new system and will also allow authorized Bristol Park Medical Group personnel to view the 2005 P4P clinical measures and other key clinical measures throughout the current measurement year.  

 “The Ascender P4P reporting product effectively integrates data from disparate sources to provide real-time performance results and support analyses that identify opportunities to improve provider compliance with clinical management targets,” comments Michael Campbell with HealthcareData.com, LLC (HDC) on his P4P audit review of Bristol Park. “The product’s design is user-friendly and web-accessible, which meets Bristol Park’s requirement that the application be available to staff members located at multiple office locations.”

Mr. Campbell further commented, “Bristol Park’s P4P reporting using Infotech's Ascender product is, without question, one of the best health care performance data reporting applications I have audited. The product enabled the provider organization to not only successfully comply with P4P reporting requirements, but also to implement smart strategies for monitoring member health status and migrating to EMR.

Bristol Park’s P4P reporting product and clinical management practices demonstrate not only a best practice among self-reporting Provider Organizations, but also illustrate that all health care organizations, regardless of size, can successfully navigate the challenges of performance reporting and bring real value to its members. ”

"Bristol Park Medical Group has embraced the IHA’s P4P measures as a means of bringing patient care improvements, according to Bristol Park’s Medical Director, Dr Mark Schafer. “Using Infotech’s Ascender P4P and CM modules means that we are able to look across our entire patient population, not just those counted in the P4P denominator, and on a weekly basis we can proactively reach out to our patients who according to the measures need additional care.  Having access to key clinical measures allows Bristol Park to introduce more aggressive disease management programs in the near future.” 

Pat Dolphin, Director of MIS at Bristol Park says, “We knew that working with Infotech would bring the integration expertise we needed to draw data from our administrative systems, pharmacy files and lab providers. We quickly brought together all these data sources into the Ascender product to generate useful views by provider, specialty, location, and even across our patient population.”

John Somers, Chief Operating Officer for Bristol Park stated, “Infotech saw our vision to create a technology solution which would allow us to capture this additional revenue stream from our HMO partners.  It has been both morally and financially rewarding to provide the care our patients deserve.”

About Bristol Park Medical Group
Bristol Park is one of the nation’s leading primary care physician organizations.  Featuring a sophisticated approach to health care delivery, Bristol Park, a group of affiliated companies, is a physician delivery system in Southern California consisting of 85 primary care providers operating from 11 full-service clinical sites.  Bristol Park provides services to 110,000 capitated enrollees and an additional 50,000 patients under PPO, self-pay, Medicare, and traditional fee-for-service arrangements.  Bristol Park also coordinates a network of over 600 contracted principal specialty physicians.  Projected 2005 revenue is $95 million.  For more information, log onto www.bristolparkmed.com.

About Infotech Systems Management
Ascender^TM is a complete application suite that collects, computes, reports, and helps manage the clinical measurements for California’s Pay for Performance (P4P) initiative for provider organizations. The staff of Infotech Systems Management (ISM) has been providing computer and network technology integration to healthcare organizations since 1988. Call (619) 446-6784 or go to www.infotechsm.com for more information.

About HealthcareData.com, LLC (HDC)
HealthcareData.com, LLC (HDC), the second largest of the 10 firms licensed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance to provide P4P audit reviews in California.  HDC has been providing P4P audit reviews since the program started and currently has a very strong presence in California.  In addition to conducting audit reviews, HDC also offers educational and consulting services to provider groups preparing for P4P reporting.

2005 CAPG Healthcare Conference
PROMOTING COORDINATED CARE
May 19-22, 2005
Westin Mission Hills Resort
Rancho Mirage, CA
 

IHA 2005 P4P Measurement Set Includes Physician Incentive Bonus:

Physician groups can receive up to an additional 10% for a physician-level incentive program incorporating regular measurement and feedback on clinical metrics and patient experience to individual physicians.