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Palladian Health (West Seneca, New York) reported a technology development partnership to implement ClinicaCDS, a clinical decision support service, as part of its recently disclosed program, Palladian Coordinated Spine Care.

According to the company, Palladian Coordinated Spine Care is a "revolutionary" clinically integrated program that will help patients and clinicians deal with back pain. Spine care costs have reached national epidemic proportions and are estimated to be more than $194 billion annually in direct costs alone, the company said. Palladian Coordinated Spine Care provides interactive web based Clinical Decision Support to patients and clinicians to deliver evidence based treatment recommendations at the point of care.

In addition to the use of ClinicaCDS, Palladian Coordinated Spine Care will provide care management outreach to patients with back pain, educational and messaging campaigns on back pain and appropriate treatment methods and utilization management of high cost invasive or unsupported procedures. Palladian Coordinated Spine Care will integrate with each client's benefit management and data infrastructure, coordinating and leveraging already existing capabilities and clinical information.

Palladian and Religent (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) have agreed to jointly develop Palladian CareManager, an application that will integrate on a real time basis with ClinicaCDS and Palladian's broad set of clinical data to facilitate Palladian's care management programs. Religent and Clinica have agreed that Palladian is their exclusive partner for muscular skeletal and diagnostic imaging initiatives.

Religent is a software development company that serves the life sciences and healthcare markets. ClinicaCDS is a centralized, scalable and standards based decision support system that is currently being used in a number of clinical settings such as: disease management, population health management, and breast cancer screening.

In other agreements/contracts news, HealthPartners (Bloomington, Minnesota) reported that members could now transfer information from their HealthPartners account directly to Microsoft (Redmond, Washington) HealthVault. Members will be able to permanently access their health information and share it free of charge, even if they change jobs, health plans or doctors, the company said.

HealthVault is an open platform designed to put people in control of their health information. People can use HealthVault to store copies of their health records obtained from their providers, plans, pharmacies, government, or employers; upload information from health and fitness devices; share information with healthcare providers and trainers; and access products and services.