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Emdeon Convenes Industry Forum to Monitor Business Efficiency in Healthcare
Date:12/2/2008

data standards. The savings identified by the Index represent low-hanging fruit that can help fund longer-term reforms."

Outside Auditor and Independent Advisory Council

Milliman, Inc., a leading actuarial and consulting firm serving the healthcare industry, will serve as an outside auditor/peer reviewer for the Index. The Index will also include an independent Advisory Council. A group of charter members will serve on the Council effective today. The full Council is expected to be announced by early 2009 and will include leaders from across the industry.

    Charter Advisory Council members include:

    -- Fritz Scheuren, Ph.D, Statistician, Scheuren - Ruffner
    -- Patrick Baier, D.Phil., Statistician, Scheuren - Ruffner
    -- John L. Phelan, Ph.D, Milliman, Inc.
    -- Andrew L. Naugle, MBA, Milliman, Inc.
    -- Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Healthcare economist and author
    -- Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker and Founder, Center for Health
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Phased Approach

The launch of the Index is being undertaken carefully using a thoughtful, deliberate approach. Phase 1 takes a very broad-based industry view. Current findings are derived based on estimates from trusted industry sources.

The Index will become more specific over time. In Phase 2, a methodology will be established and specific data will be gathered to provide a more in-depth view of the industry's progress.

Statisticians Dr. Fritz Scheuren and Dr. Patrick Baier will assist the Index in developing transparent processes for data gathering, analysis, and reporting. "We are happy to develop the statistical framework for this timely initiative," said Dr. Patrick Baier with Scheuren-Ruffner Consultants of Alexandria, VA. "Our role will be to provide the statistical analysis needed to arrive at estimated national figures, and to make statistical inferences from random sampl
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