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CareContinuum.org
The Care Continuum Alliance (CCA) aligns all stakeholders providing services along the care continuum toward the goal of population health improvement. These care continuum services include strategies such as health and wellness promotion, care management and care coordination. The CCA promotes the role of population health improvement in raising the quality of care, improving health outcomes and reducing preventable health care costs for the well and those at risk of or with chronic conditions. Activities in support of these efforts include advocacy, research and the promotion of best practices in care management.

The Care Continuum Alliance represents more than 200 corporate and individual stakeholders--including wellness, disease and care management organizations, pharmaceutical manufacturers and benefits managers, health information technology innovators, biotechnology innovators, employers, physicians, nurses and other health care professionals, and researchers and academicians.

NCQA.org
The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. Since its founding in 1990, NCQA has been a central figure in driving improvement throughout the health care system, helping to elevate the issue of health care quality to the top of the national agenda.

The NCQA seal is a widely recognized symbol of quality. Organizations incorporating the seal into advertising and marketing materials must first pass a rigorous, comprehensive review and must annually report on their performance. For consumers and employers, the seal is a reliable indicator that an organization is well-managed and delivers high quality care and service.

Medicalwellnessassociation.com

MISSION
The Medical Wellness Association promotes and integrates professional development of medical wellness programs, professionals, facilities and services.

VISION
The Medical Wellness Association will be the recognized leader for promoting and integrating medical wellness programs and professionals.

PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT
As the professional organization for medical wellness, MWA provides leadership, promotes high standards and integration and advances the development of the profession.

The-Hero.org
HERO began operations on April 1, 1996, as a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 corporation.  The initial objective was to create high quality employee health management (EHM) research, especially that dealing with the impact of modifiable health risks on health care costs.  To implement this effort, HERO, in collaboration with StayWell Health Management and the Medstat Group (now Thomson Reuters), created the HERO Research Database.  The HERO database has been the source for the creation of landmark, frequently referenced peer reviewed and published EHM research.

Healthwise.org
The Healthwise® Knowledgebase is an accredited online resource for helping people make decisions about their health and health care. Within the course of every illness or health problem, people are called upon to make decisions.

Little decisions about whether to call the doctor and what self-care is best, and big decisions about medications, tests and surgeries. Each decision impacts health care quality and cost. Both doctors and consumers trust the prescription-Strength Information content in the Healthwise Knowledgebase to improve health care decisions. Every Healthwise topic is based on the most reliable, most up-to-date medical research.

Emmisolutions.com
Emmi Solutions is a leading provider of web-based communication software and the producer of award winning Emmi programs. In our unique model, care managers "prescribe" our programs to their patients and can track their compliance as they navigate through the modules. Emmi programs break down barriers to understanding by using a highly visual multimedia approach that is sensitive to low health literacy levels. The voice is intimate, the graphics are engaging and easy to understand, and the words on screen mirror the voice to reinforce the information and facilitate learning.

Emmi® programs help consumers more effectively manage a chronic condition and become more informed about the decision to have surgery.

Ehealthscreenings.com

eHealthScreenings is the nation’s leading provider of comprehensive wellness screening services. We specialize in direct-to-consumer medical testing and in the facilitation of on-site biometric data collection for third party administrators, wellness providers, Fortune 1000 companies and other businesses. Screenings are our specialty!

Knowledge and prevention are the keys to good health. Many people may look or feel healthy, but do not know how to recognize certain signs or changes in their bodies that could be indicators of illness. Our blood profiles can help determine a person's risk for illness before symptoms of disease occur. A “normal” test can be used to establish a baseline and to help rule out any areas of potential risk. Our test results teach individuals more about their bodies and can inspire them to make necessary changes in diet, exercise and lifestyle.

Cardiocom.com

At Cardiocom we believe that early intervention based on telemedicine's precise, objective, quantitative and qualitative measurement is the key to effective disease management programs. Our philosophy for successful chronic disease management involves bringing together patients and their health care professionals to improve health. Our goal is improved quality of care for patients and reduced healthcare costs for payors and providers.

• We strive to provide innovative remote telemonitoring technology and integrated health management solutions.
  
• We believe that real-time preemptive intervention facilitated by remote telemonitoring encourages proactive behavior change.
  
• We believe that timely information and personalized communication provided by remote telemonitoring motivates patients, caregivers and health professionals to work as a team to improve outcomes and reduce costs.
  
• We believe that daily cost-effective monitoring of high risk patients' vital signs, symptoms and compliance with evidence-based guidelines may be the most important decision support tool in the disease management process.