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ACTIVE Health Management is the recipient
of the Canadian Healthcare Manager's "Who's Who in Healthcare Technology
Award " for its unique approach in leveraging clinical
knowledge with technology to create clinical protocols and
guidelines.
ACTIVE Health Management has developed a highly-secure,
scaleable internet-based repository of healthcare encounter
and outcome data which connects all participants in healthcare,
and enables them to communicate, exchange information and
perform transactions. ACTIVE has successfully met the needs
of Canadian third-party payers for a standard system of collecting,
storing and analyzing trends in healthcare services and costs,
by combining clinical and technical expertise.
There is no soft tissue injury database in Canada
that rivals ACTIVE Health Management's.
"Practitioners benefit by being able to offer evidence-based healthcare
services and third-party payers benefit
from a more cost-effective healthcare delivery service."
 Press
Release - Who's Who in Healthcare Technology Award
Highlights
of ACTIVE Health Information Technology
Research
Projects - In Progress
Press Release
Who's Who in Healthcare
Toronto - October 2000
- ACTIVE Health Management, a leading Toronto based health
management provider is pleased to announce that its founder
and CEO, Brenda Rusnak has been
awarded the Canadian Healthcare Manager's 2000 Who's Who
in Healthcare Technology Award. This award, co-sponsored
by Microsoft
Canada
, recognizes
outstanding individuals who have been instrumental in delivering
innovative technology-based solutions to the healthcare
industry.
Under Brenda's vision and
leadership, ACTIVE Health Management Inc. has developed
and successfully tested the first highly-secure, scaleable,
internet-based network of healthcare encounter and outcome
data in
Canada
.
The technology, which connects healthcare providers and
payers using the Web, provides an encrypted virtual private
communication network, enabling participants to securely
exchange treatment information and perform claims transactions.
In addition, providers and payers can search an information
rich database to assist in predicting costs and outcomes
Brenda Rusnak stated: "We are extremely proud to have received
this award, sponsored by Microsoft
Canada
. Our customers have been using
our technology to instantaneously compare the costs and
outcomes of different treatment modalities with a claimant's
injury, occupation and pre-existing conditions."
The company is currently
completing the first stage of its technology roll-out strategy
and has successfully connected over 200 healthcare providers
and processed in excess of 300,000 medical rehabilitation
files. The company is now seeking additional investment
partnerships to leverage and expand its technology platform.
About ACTIVE Health Management
Founded in 1998, ACTIVE
Health Management Inc., a member of The Brenda Rusnak
Group of Companies, is a privately held
Ontario
corporation, providing health management, disability management
and Web-based data interchange services to participants
in the healthcare market. Its customers include regulated
health professionals such as physiotherapists, chiropractors,
occupational therapists, physicians, and third-party administrators,
commercial insurance companies, employers and others. Additional
information on ACTIVE Health Management can be found on
the company's website at http://www.activehealth.ca.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft
(Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for
personal and business computing. The company offers a wide
range of products and services designed to empower people
through great software -- any time, any place and on any
device.
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Highlights of
ACTIVE's Health Information Technology
ACTIVE Health Management offers a number of solutions to the challenges faced by insurance companies, plan sponsors and healthcare providers. We provide better ways to support claimants through the automation and simplification of time-consuming tasks such as determining eligibility, enrolling for health benefits, managing a referral, processing a claim, reimbursing for a claim, finding quality healthcare providers and determining best healthcare options for claimants. Our solutions are inexpensive, flexible and guarantee security. ACTIVE Health Management’s technology:
 allows healthcare information to be exchanged between disparate participants across geographic and
 business boundaries, without violating patient confidentiality.
simplifies and streamlines healthcare billing and reduces errors.
allows for the co-ordination of benefits between insurers.
simplifies time-consuming tasks such as determining eligibility, enrolling for health benefits, managing a
referral, processing a claim, reimbursing for a claim, finding quality healthcare providers and determining best healthcare options for claimants.
allows users to extract valuable predictive information, based on historical patient/claimant files, to assist in setting reserves and in determining whether a treatment plan is reasonable and necessary. This type of
information allows all users of the system, providers and payers, to make informed decisions.
allows third-party payers to compare provider outcomes with peer groups for similar patient populations.
brings credible healthcare information to insurance claimants and employees, and can be linked to third-
party payers’ Health and Benefit Web sites.
Research Projects - In Progress
Soft-Tissue Predictive Modeling Project
Active Health has been involved in a multi-year research project (beginning in 1998) in which it is developing predictive models of outcomes and recovery from soft-tissue injuries. Such models will be useful in setting standards for treatment costs, identifying departures from treatment plans, differentiating injury diagnoses in terms of their recovery patterns, and segmenting patient groups in terms of their responsiveness to treatment for different types of injury.
Achievements made thus far in this multi-year research project include:
- Construction of a large database of patient records concerning treatment and recovery from soft-tissue injuries.
- Development of predictive models of recovery that account for about 10 percent of the variability (i.e., multiple correlations of around .3) in outcome criteria (such as percent function)
Falls Prediction and Mobility Indexing Project
In 2005 ACTIVE Health Management began a research project aimed at developing valid and reliable measurements of Falls Prediction and Mobility Indexing. The goal of this research project is to:
- Predict with certainty if an individual is at risk of falls
- Identify the mechanism that puts them at risk of falls
- Develop treatment programs that are effective in reducing the incidence of falls
- Develop a tool which can determine the appropriate level of independent mobility for an individual, which takes into consideration an acceptable falls risk.
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