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BioSignia, Inc.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 11, 2008
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Alison Kramer, 919-459-8157, akramer@919marketing.com
BioSignia Launches Relationship with Bridges to Excellence�
Through Know Your Number�
Aimed at facilitating the reporting of key measures that will
help physicians qualify for company certification and
pay-for-performance awards.
Research Triangle Park, N.C. –BioSignia, a predictive modeling
company delivering innovative solutions, announced today it has been
selected as a data-submission pathway for Bridges to Excellence�
(BTE), one of the nation's leading programs to promote care quality
within physician practices. This decision rests on BioSignia’s Know
Your Number�, the first disease-specific risk assessment (DRA) tool
that predicts an individual’s likelihood of developing chronic
preventable diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes. The Know
Your Number solution provides key elements to facilitate the BTE
process and mission.
“This relationship allows BioSignia to further leverage Know Your
Number to the physician community,” says Dr. Tim Smith, President
and COO of BioSignia. “Because Know Your Number was created as a
clinical assessment, it’s the perfect tool to increase care quality
among this particular group of medical professionals.”
The Know Your Number program employs electronic evidence-based
intake associated with the collection of key information related to
various chronic diseases. Such intake can either occur directly from
electronic medical records using appropriate software to capture
these evidence-based parameters, or from a secure, web-accessible
system available on the Know Your Number Web site. This information,
which is anonymous, can then be sent directly to various performance
assessment organizations supporting BTE, which serves to streamline
and facilitate participation.
BioSignia’s predictive engine significantly improves prevention and
management of chronic diseases by focusing on individualized
specific disease risks. An ancillary value, which drives care
quality at the physician level, is the Know Your Number
decision-support tool for physicians which addresses individual
morbidity load, health risks and care guidelines. The program also
has important elements to drive both physician/patient communication
and aggregation of information to study outcomes. This series of
quality-enhancement reports is made possible using Synthesis
Analysis™, BioSignia's patented synthesis modeling technology.
“The idea behind our relationship with Bridges to Excellence was to
provide a continuous channel between BioSignia and the medical
community so that more physicians could benefit from this tool,”
says Smith. “When we created Know Your Number, we knew it would
reinvent physician care quality as we know it.”
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About BioSignia
Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C., BioSignia is a
leading technology company focused on bringing innovative predictive
modeling solutions to the preventive health and life insurance
markets. At the core of BioSignia’s flagship solution, Know Your
Number is the company’s proprietary synthesis modeling approach to
chronic disease risk prediction. In 2004, BioSignia received the
Disease Management Association of America’s prestigious award for
Best Enabling Tool for Disease Management. Since then, the company’s
talented R&D team has continued to advance synthesis modeling,
continuously updating it to reflect the ever expanding need for
effective chronic disease prevention, management and treatment. For
more information, visit: www.knowyournumber.com
About Bridges to Excellence
Bridges to Excellence is a not-for-profit organization developed by
employers, physicians, health care services, researchers, and other
industry experts with a mission to create significant leaps in the
quality of care by recognizing and rewarding health care providers
who demonstrate that they have implemented comprehensive solutions
in the management of patients and deliver safe, timely, effective,
efficient, equitable and patient-centered care. BTE is a
not-for-profit organization that designs and creates programs that
encourage physicians and physician practices to deliver safer, more
effective and efficient care through financial and other incentives.
For more information visit: http://www.bridgestoexcellence.org/
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