PLANO, Texas - Aug. 6, 2014 - ZeOmega Inc., today announced the release of its Jiva™ 5.6 population health management solution with major enhancements that include advanced analytics, patient registries, dashboards, medication therapy management (MTM) and other data-sharing tools. The enhancements in the latest release are designed to reduce admissions, lower healthcare costs and improve the patient experience by helping healthcare organizations proactively identify and engage with patients most at risk for hospitalization.

In particular, Jiva's dashboards and patient registries will help organizations proactively achieve compliance with accountable care organizations (ACOs), CMS and other performance guidelines for improved care transitions and maximum reimbursement while supporting the best patient experience possible.

The integration of medication therapy management (MTM) into Jiva's overall patient care management process will help reduce avoidable and costly medication-related readmissions and emergency room visits. In addition, Jiva's enhanced data sharing infrastructure enables clients to more seamlessly share data between Jiva and disparate clinical, administrative and financial systems in the healthcare ecosystem by using Jiva's public application program interface (API).

"We have long envisioned the need for payers and providers to work together in care management to achieve the common goal of better patient health, and that fact drove many of the enhancements in Jiva 5.6," said Nandini Rangaswamy, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at ZeOmega. "We continually evolve our Jiva platform so that it delivers powerful yet easy-to-use tools that help facilitate collaboration, especially as it relates to effective care transitions and improving the population's overall health."

Jiva 5.6 also includes advances such as predictive analytics around risk for hospitalization, fully integrating medication therapy management with care management, and performance dashboards for proactive management of quality initiatives. The enhanced platform also enables patient self-assessments, which gives care coordinators better, real-time data that drives the level of patient engagement needed to achieve optimal outcomes.

Jiva 5.6 drives deeper patient engagement by presenting more complete data about patients. For example, instead of only indicating a patient's medication non-compliance, the rules and protocols in Jiva 5.6 identifies patients at risk for medication-related adverse events, empowers care teams to precisely understand the issues a patient is having with their medications, such as potential drug-drug interactions, or why a patient isn't taking their medications and what can be done to get that patient back on a medication plan that will optimize their clinical goals of therapy.

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