Wolters Kluwer Health Releases ProVation® MD Module to Streamline American College of Cardiology NCDR® CathPCI Registry® Reporting

MINNEAPOLIS, MN —September 13, 2011— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today the release of a module to support participation in the American College of Cardiology (ACC) National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) CathPCI Registry. Part of ProVation® MD for cardiology procedure documentation and coding, the ACC-certified module automates collection of required data and simplifies the submission process.

One of six registries maintained by the NCDR, the CathPCI Registry is a national surveillance system that assesses the characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of cardiac disease patients who receive diagnostic catheterization and/or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures. The goal is to optimize the outcomes and management of coronary heart disease patients through implementation of evidence-based guidelines, as well as to facilitate efforts to improve the quality and safety of care and investigate novel quality improvement methods. Participating hospitals and cath labs are provided with a risk-adjusted assessment to measure their performance against similar comparison groups and national benchmarks.

“Cardiac cath labs and hospital cardiology service lines can realize numerous benefits from participating in the CathPCI Registry, including access to benchmark data for quality improvement plans and compliance with state and private payer pay-for-performance requirements,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “The challenge lies in dedicating the resources necessary to efficiently and accurately capture and report required data. ProVation Medical’s Registry Reporter resolves those challenges by automating data collection and reporting. It eliminates the need for duplicate data entry and simplifies the overall submission process.”

ProVation MD replaces dictation and transcription and allows physicians to efficiently document procedures at the point of care. By driving structured and compliant data capture and pairing it with robust reporting and analysis capabilities, it simplifies reporting, clinical research and audit preparation and simplifies participation in quality initiatives, benchmarking and other reporting statutes.

The ProVation Registry Reporter is a robust, easy-to-use module that takes advantage of procedure data documented with ProVation MD, as well as information gathered through interfaces to other systems. The software highlights data required by the NCDR, including patient demographic and admission data, hemodynamic system data, and clinical documentation data including diagnostic and PCI information, and feeds it automatically into the Registry Reporter for quarterly submission to the CathPCI Registry.

By making NCDR CathPCI Registry data requirements an integral part of the physician’s documentation workflow and by leveraging interfaces to ProVation MD, the Registry Reporter increases the efficiency with which reporting is accomplished. It eliminates redundant data entry, which improves data quality and accuracy. Finally, the module allows for easy review, augmentation and modification of collected information.

Wolters Kluwer Health’s Clinical Solutions business unit provides evidence-based medical content, workflow based applications software and services that allow clinicians to efficiently and effectively diagnose and document patient care. Key brands ProVation Medical, UpToDate®, Medi-Span®, Lexicomp, Facts & Comparisons®, Pharmacy OneSource® and Medicom (China) lead in market segments that include drug information, disease information, clinical patient order sets, clinical documentation and hospital pharmacy productivity applications.

About ProVation Medical

ProVation^® Medical is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2010 annual revenues of €3.6 billion ($4.7 billion).