Symphony Performance Health to Provide Population Health and Referral Management Analytics for McLaren Physician Partners

Alpharetta, Georgia (PRWEB) January 27, 2015

Symphony Performance Health (SPH), a leader in action analytics for healthcare networks, announced today that Flint, Michigan-based McLaren Physician Partners (MPP) has selected SPH and its new MDinsight 7.0 software for population health management, as well as the company's referral management analytics. MPP is the Physician-Hospital Organization for McLaren Health Care, a $2.9 billion, clinically integrated health system in Michigan. MPP will benefit from Symphony Performance Health analytics that go beyond measurement and analysis to support organizational action planning for better health outcomes and network improvement. The advanced analytics will be installed in a 222-physician MPP pilot program in first quarter 2015 before being rolled out to the organization's full 3000 physician membership. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

"McLaren Health Care is a fully integrated health network committed to quality evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. We have chosen Symphony Performance Health to provide analytics that will help physicians better manage their populations of patients both in terms of quality of care and efficiency of care delivery," explained Gary Wentzloff, CEO of MPP.

Al Vega, CEO of SPH, further explained, "McLaren Physician Partners is dedicated to providing quality healthcare through its 3000 physician members, and Symphony Performance Health is the ideal partner to provide actionable insights into their population of patients. Our analytics will allow McLaren to focus on quality of care and growth."

For more information, visit http://www.symphonyph.com.

About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Flint, Michigan, is a fully integrated health network committed to quality evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, the state's only proton therapy center, an employed primary care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 260,000 lives, home health and hospice providers, retail medical equipment showrooms, pharmacy services, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan's largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive centers in the U.S. McLaren has 21,000 employees and more than 37,000 network providers. Its operations are housed in more than 300 facilities serving a 54-county market and 75 percent of Michigan's population. Learn more at mclaren.org.

About Symphony Performance Health
Symphony Performance Health (SPH) is a leader in action analytics for provider, payer and health networks through powerful data, applications, analytics, and consulting. SPH solutions enable clients to enhance the patient care experience, improve population health, reduce the overall cost of care and elevate provider performance. SPH solutions also incorporate an engaging user experience optimized for mobility, as well as social-media style collaboration and communication, to measure data, create easy-to-understand analytics, and empower action.

Founded through the merger of Voyance Health, MDdatacor, and Archimedes Clinical Analytics, Symphony Performance Health is based in Alpharetta, GA, with offices in Branford, CT, San Francisco, CA, and Nashville,TN. Symphony Performance Health is a member of the $2.5BSymphony Technology Group (STG; http://www.symphonytg.com).

For more information, call 1-866-460-5681 or visit http://www.SymphonyPH.com.

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