The Quantum Group Joins Executive Committee of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
May 07 2009 - 7:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative is the National
Organization Dedicated to Advancing the Patient Centered 'Medical
Home' WELLINGTON, Fla. May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Quantum
Group, a healthcare services organization (HSO), has joined the
Executive Committee of the Patient-Centered Primary Care
Collaborative (PCPCC). The PCPCC is a collaboration of major
employers, consumer groups, patient quality organizations, health
plans, labor unions, hospitals, physicians and others that have
joined together to develop and advance the patient centered medical
home. The goal of the medical home movement is to ensure that every
American has a partnership with a primary healthcare provider who
takes responsibility and accountability for ongoing care, is
accessible, provides preventive care, and coordinates care with
other providers as needed. The Collaborative's more than 400
members believe that if primary care practices were appropriately
compensated for providing this kind of care coordination, the
quality of care would improve and health costs would drop. PWeR(TM)
(Personal Wellness electronic Record(TM)), the healthcare
information platform designed by Quantum that facilitates the
federal mandate for electronic health records, is already gaining
ground in the medical home environment. PWeR provides physicians
with electronic records integration, management, analysis and
communication with other providers and facilities involvement in
patient care. "We are pleased that Quantum is joining the Executive
Committee, a distinguished group of knowledgeable executives that
helps to guide the PCPCC," said Paul Grundy, MD, president of the
PCPCC and an executive of IBM. "Coordinated, uninterrupted care
managed by a patient's personal primary care provider is a hallmark
of the patient centered medical home model. Quantum supports and
promotes the principles of the medical home, and shares the PCPCC's
core values." Noel J. Guillama, Quantum President & CEO, and
Pete Martinez, Quantum Senior Vice President and Chief Technology
& Innovations Officer, are representing Quantum on the
Executive Committee. "We are honored to join the Executive
Committee of the PCPCC and to serve its mission alongside some of
the most talented and innovative minds in the industry," Guillama
said. "Quantum is a new breed healthcare services organization that
was built to streamline communications and provide
interconnectivity between physicians and patients, hospitals,
ancillary facilities, other providers and payers. The synergy
between our mission and that of the PCPCC is clear, and we look
forward to contributing to the advancement of the patient centered
medical home model." Martinez will also serve in a leadership role
for the Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange
(CeHIA), one of the four Collaborative Centers of the PCPCC. "The
opportunity to contribute to the PCPCC CeHIA collaborative,
particularly during a time when our country has been incentivized
through the federal stimulus package to promote and expand the use
of technology in the delivery of healthcare, is tremendous,"
Martinez said. "I commend the progress made by the CeHIA to date
and look forward to rolling up my sleeves and joining forces with
the talented folks already at the table. I am confident in our
mission, in the leadership of the PCPCC and in our combined ability
to drive transformation." The Executive Committee of the PCPCC
includes 42 members. Among them are officials of: Aetna; Alere;
American Academy of Family Physicians; American Academy of Nurse
Practitioners, American Academy of Pediatrics; American College of
Physicians; American Osteopathic Association; BlueCross BlueShield;
CIGNA; The Commonwealth Fund; CVS Caremark; DMAA: Care Continuum
Alliance; EHE International; Geisinger Health System;
GlaxoSmithKline; Health Care Services Corporation; Humana, Inc.;
IBM; Johnson & Johnson; Kaiser Permanente; McKesson
Corporation; MedAssurant; Medco; Merck; Microsoft; MVP Health Care;
Novartis; Pfizer; PhRMA; Phytel; Priority Health; The Quantum
Group; Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; sanofi-aventis; Taconic
IPA, Inc.; Thomson Reuters; TransforMED; UnitedHealthcare;
Universal American Corp.; Walgreens; WellCentive, LLC and
Wellpoint. To read more about the work of CeHIA and the use of
health information technology to support the medical home, go to
http://www.pcpcc.net/content/meaningful-connections-it-resource-guide.
About PCPCC The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative is a
coalition of more than 400 major employers, consumer groups,
organizations representing primary care physicians, and other
stakeholders who have joined to advance the patient centered
medical home. The Collaborative believes that, if implemented, the
patient centered medical home will improve the health of patients
and the health care delivery system. For more information on the
patient centered medical home and a complete list of the PCPCC
members, please visit http://www.pcpcc.net/. About The Quantum
Group, Inc. The Quantum Group is an innovation-driven Healthcare
Services Organization (HSO) that provides business process
solutions, service chain management, strategic consulting and
leading edge technology to the healthcare industry. Quantum has
developed and deployed PWeR(TM) (http://www.mypwer.com/), a
cutting-edge, patent-pending healthcare technology system that has
been designed to bridge the gaps of communication and exchange of
patient information throughout the healthcare industry. To date
eighteen provisional and one utility patent application have been
filed in support of PWeR. The system can integrate all of the
functions a physician/provider, hospital, clinic and related
professionals utilize in one patient-centric, web-based platform
and falls well within the economic incentives offered by the new
$19 billion Stimulus Package for healthcare information technology.
We believe we are positioned to be a catalyst for change as we take
aim at the $700 billion inefficiency gap in the United States
healthcare industry. For more information, please visit
http://www.quantummd.com/. Certain statements contained in this
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uncertainties that cannot be predicted or quantified and,
consequently, actual results may differ materially from those
expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Such risk
factors include, without limitation, the ability of the Company to
properly execute its business model, to raise substantial and
immediate additional capital to implement its business model, to
continue revenue growth trend in fiscal year 2009, to control
patient medical cost relative to income received, to attract and
retain executive, management and operational personnel, to continue
growing its patient base, to negotiate favorable current debt and
future capital raises, to negotiate favorable agreements with a
diversified provider base and HMO clients and to continue to supply
the services needed by these HMO clients as well as provider
clients. We have further risk in the deployment of our PWeR(TM)
technology platform and the continuing infrastructure development,
hosting, security, sales and servicing; further potential
complications by the utilization by our clients, technical and
software setbacks, cost of development, as well as the capital to
deploy it as well as pricing and completive pressures. We are also
subject changes in federal and state government regulations dealing
with both our provider system and our technology solutions that
could have a material economic affect and cause interruptions of
services. We are also subject to contractual risk, expenses and
compliance with our alliance partner(s) agreements. The Company
does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any
forward-looking statements. As a result, investors should not place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. FOR MORE
INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: RedChip Companies Dave Gentry:
407.644.4256 x104 or PR Financial Marketing Jim Blackman:
713.256.0369 or The Quantum Group, Inc. Danielle Amodio:
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