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WellCentive announced today that over 1,000 Michigan providers took advantage of a limited-time offer for free one-year WellCentive Registry licenses, interfaces, implementation support, and project management.
These new WellCentive Registry users joined thousands of other licensed providers in Michigan.

WellCentive Registry has become the patient registry of choice in Michigan, where well over half of all primary care physicians are

licensed to use the system. WellCentive’s focus on integration and interfacing helps ensure that the registry data is accurate, up-to-date, and complete. More than 90% of providers in Michigan who use a patient registry use WellCentive Registry.

“WellCentive has been blessed with a great deal of support and success in my home state, and we wanted to give something back,” said Paul D.

Taylor, M.D., WellCentive’s CEO and medical director. While many Michigan providers have been using WellCentive Registry for years, not everyone understands how registries can engage physicians, improve care, and cut costs using point-of-care decision support, population-based reporting, and automated patient outreach . “We wanted to encourage physicians and physician organizations that are on the fence, to take the plunge and join the growing clinical quality improvement movement.
We are thrilled by the response,” said Taylor.

“We have been investigating electronic patient registries for two years now, and the features of the WellCentive Registry product combined with the free offer solidified our decision,” said Natalie Buslepp, Director of Carson City Hospital Medical Services Group and Administrator of Carson Health Network PHO. "Other members of our Regional Delivery Network have been using the WellCentive Registry for years, and we plan to use the system after the free licenses expire. The return on investment is significant,“ said Buslepp.

The free WellCentive Registry license program includes an inbound lab results interface with Quest Diagnostics and outbound interfaces to Priority Health and Blue Care Network for Pay for Performance reporting.

WellCentive pioneered the paradigm of direct reporting to payers for P4P programs, which currently includes other payers as well.



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