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VP of Products and Marketing Will Address Growing Healthcare Trends and the

Tools Health Plans Need for Success

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Flanagan, VP of products and marketing for Portico Systems, the leader in Provider Network Management solutions, will present a "Toolkit for Optimizing Provider Network Management" at the Institute for International Research's conference in Dallas.

Flanagan will draw from his experience working directly with some of the country's largest and most forward-thinking health plans to share best-in- class building blocks to streamlining operations, increasing staff efficiency and more effectively managing provider relations.

Attendees will also learn how competition, healthcare costs, regulatory issues and consumerism are impacting the industry, the tools needed to address these trends and best practices to achieving success.

WHO: Michael Flanagan, VP of products and marketing for Portico Systems

WHAT: Session on Optimizing Provider Network Development & Management

WHEN: September 25, 2007 10:45 a.m.

WHERE: Institute for International Research Conference; Westin City

Center, Dallas, TX

WHY: Learn how some of the largest health plans in the country are

tapping technology to improve provider network management, and

operationally prepare to effectively adopt emerging trends like

consumerism, P4P, and transparency.

More information on this session and the event in general can be found at: http://www.iirusa.com/provnet/28109.xml

About Portico(TM) Systems

Portico Systems offers health plans software solutions exclusively focused on unlocking the value of Provider Network Management. Our hallmark Portico Provider Platform empowers health plans to infuse agility into their provider network management functions while delivering actiona
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