Gilsbar to License Elsevier / MEDai’s Risk Navigator Clinical® to Identify and Manage High Risk Populations and Improve Patient Care Quality
Orlando, FL, January 16, 2012 – Elsevier / MEDai, the leader in predictive clinical analytic solutions, today announced Gilsbar, Inc. has licensed MEDai’s Risk Navigator Clinical to proactively use analytics to provide value to their clients by identifying programs that will provide a return on investment for their constituents. Further they will support Care Management through the identification and management of high-risk members.
“With Elsevier / MEDai’s Risk Navigator Clinical, our clients will be able to measure and monitor compliance to evidence-based guidelines and provide information to employers regarding population and group management,” said Douglas Layman, Executive Vice President & CSMO, Gilsbar. “As more and more payers focus on gaining efficiencies and improving quality, the predictive modeling enabled by Risk Navigator Clinical will help our clients turn their data into actionable information so they can achieve both.”
Gilsbar, based in Covington, LA., is one of the nation’s fastest growing, private health and benefit management organizations. Gilsbar’s three divisions – including Health & Benefit Management, MedCom Care Management and MedCom Care Advocates – provide proven methodologies to help keep members healthy and curb healthcare spend. Gilsbar’s clients include benefit advisors, employers, associations, affinity groups, and insurance carriers.
“As Gilsbar supports its clients utilizing Risk Navigator Clinical, it can look forward to having a greater ability to identify and manage high risk populations utilizing claims and biometric data and ultimately improve the health status of their clients’ employees and families,” said Tom Zajac, President, Elsevier / MEDai. “Risk Navigator Clinical is the only predictive tool that gives payers a true 360-degree view of their member populations.”
Gilsbar also plans to use Risk Navigator Clinical with its clients to conduct group reporting, provide feedback to employer groups and incorporate risk scores into actuarial models.
“Risk Navigator Clinical will help Gilsbar to proactively select at-risk individuals for interventions more effectively than before and will improve their support of wellness programs,” said Hank Miltenberger, President and CEO of Gilsbar. “These programs will provide a demonstrated return on investment for our clients and improve the overall health of their members.”
For more information about MEDai’s Risk Navigator Clinical, please go to www.medai.com.

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