Atlanta, GA, December 17, 2007 – MDdatacor, Inc., a leader in healthcare quality management solutions for health plans and providers, has joined the Patient-Centered Care Collaborative, a coalition of major employers, consumer groups, and other stakeholders who have joined with organizations representing primary care physicians to develop and advance the patient centered medical home.

The Collaborative believes that, if implemented, the Patient-Centered Medical Home model will improve the health of patients and the health care delivery system. Employers, consumers, physicians and payers have agreed that the patient centered medical home can be an important step toward creating payment systems for physicians that reward value.

“The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative represents an important step in organizing key players behind a concept that has the potential to greatly enhance healthcare,” said Timothy Roche, co-founder, president and chief executive officer of MDdatacor. “It fits well with our philosophy of improving patient care, and we have in fact enhanced the functionality of our solutions to support practices and health plans in implementing a patient-centered care model from an IT perspective.”

MDdatacor supports the Patient-Centered Medical Home model by aggregating and providing physician access to patient information such as lab results, current medications and diagnosis, procedure and contraindication history; identifying additional opportunities for patient care such as preventative screenings or tests; providing charts that track patient indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol over time; facilitating and tracking referrals to specialists; and monitoring and comparing patient outcome performance among physicians and practices.

The Patient-Centered Medical Home model would incorporate enhanced access and communication, improved coordination of care, rewards for higher value, expanded administrative and quality innovations and promote active patient and family involvement. The Patient-Centered Medical Home model also engages patients and their families in positive ongoing relationships with their physicians, improves the quality of care delivered and helps control the unsustainable rising costs of healthcare for both individuals and plan-sponsors.