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ATRIO Health Plans Selects Altruista Health’s GuidingCareTM Technology to Engage Patients in Better Health
Reston, VA – April 7, 2009 – Altruista Health, a leading provider of care and disease management technology, announced today that ATRIO Health Plans, selected Altruista Health’s GuidingCareTM technology to help improve the health of people in Douglas, Klamath and Washington counties, in the state of Oregon, through advanced care coordination and comprehensive primary and preventive health care.
“Our experience with Altruista has been outstanding,” said Matt Newey, Director of Quality Assurance and Utilization Management. Mr. Newey added, “Altruista is professional, knowledgeable, supportive, reliable and responsive. Working with Altruista is a pleasure; they work hard to assure their product is understood and relevant for our staff. We are convinced that partnering with Altruista will help us meet our disease management goals.”
Guiding Care is a web-based care coordination and health management system that will enable ATRIO Health Plan’s entire medical management team including physicians, nurses, case managers and health educators to provide timely and clinically appropriate care management, health education, and support services to members with chronic healthcare needs using automated decision support tools.
“We are very pleased to have secured this partnership with ATRIO Health Plans,” said Ashish Kachru, President. Mr. Kachru added, “We hope that ATRIO will immediately see the great value of our technology in helping target members that are in greatest need of disease management services and actively pursue them to improve the health of ATRIO Health Plan’s entire member portfolio.”