Benefits

CLIENTS	CLIENT IDENTIFIED PROBLEMS	ADVANTAGES OF AMC’S SOLUTION
Insurers/ Managed Care Organizations	Rapidly escalating costs and inability pass on those costs or risk Looming shift toward Pay-for-Performance	Provides "real" proactive disease management Demonstrable improvement in clinical outcomes Scalable to large populations Centralized health information repository usable across multitude of clinical settings
Disease Management Providers	Shrinking credibility in efficacy of traditional, retrospective data mining model Labor intensive for inconclusive payoff	Provides mechanism for proactive, targeted care management Easily integratable with existing processes
Government (as insurer)	Exponential growth in costs without concurrent improvements in outcomes Looming crises in care resources over the next 30 years Massive indirect costs due to lost productivity of informal caregivers	Demonstrable savings and improved clinical outcomes Allows overextended providers to provide quality care in disproportion to resources Effective tool to extend care to rural and underserved areas Enables informal caregivers to provide more effective long-distance care
Benefit Administrators for Self-Insured Organizations	Cannot absorb high cost outliers in the same way as large insurers due to size Must be sensitive to employee/patient satisfaction Must be vigilant to safeguard employee confidentiality	Demonstrable cost savings Effective tool to target most damaging diagnostic profiles Wide patient and family caregiver appeal
Partially-Capitated Long Term Care Providers	Acutely unstable patients account for large share of quotidian chronic care costs Highly sensitive to outcomes performance Not positioned for inevitable shift toward global risk	Low cost of solution for demonstrable outcomes payoff High patient satisfaction Ease of integration into existing care model
Globally Capitated Long term Care Providers	Very high utilization eroding even generous reimbursement caps Limitations in current ability to proactively manage pre-acute conditions before catastrophic exacerbations Insufficient clinical resources for high need population	Most effective tool to catch pre-acute situations when clinician cannot be physically present AMC performs consultative function to assist providers in choosing the best available technologies for their patients Extends the staff capabilities with minimal training
Assisted Living Providers	Profound marketing handicaps given unarticulated place within the care continuum and inadequate care Inability to manage deteriorating health of residents to the point of eviction Eroding lengths-of-stay	Low cost solution to keep residents aging in-place Powerful marketing instrument to increase census
Provider Communities (Hospital-Based Programs and Physician Groups)	Need to draw physicians into their programs Need to reduce rapid rehospitalizations Need to improve PR Required to accept greater risk from insurers for utilization Minority of chronically-ill patients account for majority of their constrained time	Intuitive marketing weapon Demonstrable tool to reduce rapid rehospitalizations Provides clinicians with actionable information to bring patients into their clinics for care High patient and family caregiver satisfaction Allows overextended staff to target the right resources to the critical few
Providers of Episodic Home Care	Prospective reimbursement guarantees that unnecessary nurse deployment erodes their margins Severe nursing shortage Very sensitive to clinical outcomes Must compete in crowded market space and would relish increased contracts with hospitals and managed care organizations	Provides agencies with clinical distinctive competency with which to pursue larger market share Markedly improves nurse productivity Demonstratively improves clinical outcomes