OpenConnect Hosts ‘Achieving Sustainable Cost Reduction in Healthcare’ Symposium at AHIP's Fall Forum 2009

Renaissance Hotel, November 16-18 in Chicago

Dallas, TX November 3, 2009 - OpenConnect today announced that it will host the “Achieving Sustainable Cost Reduction in Healthcare” symposium at AHIP's Fall Forum 2009 at the Renaissance Hotel in Chicago on November 17th.

Edward M.L. Peters, CEO of OpenConnect, will host the breakfast symposium on Tuesday morning. The session will spotlight the efforts of Chris Maier, V.P., Claims, Enrollment & Billing Operations, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Gerda Verheyden, Care Process Manager, Gasthuis Zuster Antwepen Hospitals, Belgium, that have resulted in significant (and sustained) cost reductions and efficiency improvements through the implementation of business process analytics.”

“Having Chris Maier and Gerda Verheyden at the event, representing two of the major industry efforts, one from the payer side and the other from clinical pathways research, will provide an extraordinary opportunity for the participants to learn how to apply their techniques and learning to their own environments,” said Edward M.L. Peters, OpenConnect CEO.

Chris Maier will provide an overview of how BCBSM uses analytics to drive best-in-class claims automation rates. Gerda Verheyden will examine the challenges Sint-Augustine Hospital faces in understanding and measuring which clinical pathways are most effective, the approaches taken and the results achieved.

OpenConnect will close with a discussion of the current Healthcare Reform debate with emphasis upon the Paid-for Option, and the very real possibility that healthcare reform could become self-funding. The ‘Paid-for Option’ solution is a tried-and-true innovative methodology to improve operational efficiency while driving down costs. The dramatic results achieved by OpenConnect customers can serve as proof points for the solution.

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OpenConnect business process discovery and analytics solutions deliver event-driven intelligence to automatically discover workforce, process and customer variations that hinder operational efficiency. Armed with this information, executives can make the quick and incremental improvements that will increase process efficiency, improve employee productivity, reduce cost, and raise profitability. With a rich history of developing innovative technology, OpenConnect's products are distributed in more than 60 countries and used by more than 60 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information on OpenConnect, visit www.oc.com.