[January 27, 2015]

Oakwood Healthcare Selects Truven Health Analytics™ Micromedex® Solutions to Deliver Comprehensive and Integrated Patient and Consumer Education and Engagement Resources

Truven Health Analytics™ today announced that Oakwood Healthcare - a four hospital, 1,129-bed system - has selected the industry standard for evidence-based Clinical Decision Support (CDS), Micromedex® Solutions, to integrate patient education and consumer engagement resources into its EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR). This integration will provide clinicians access to CDS resources within their workflow, at the point of care, and will allow them to extend their reach to promote community wellness by seamlessly delivering comprehensive patient education and engagement materials.

Oakwood will leverage Micromedex Integrated CareNotes® and Micromedex Consumer Health Education featuring SmartEngage™ to help support their commitment to improving the health and well-being of the patients and communities they serve. CareNotes patient discharge instructions, in addition to other educational and instructive documents, will be integrated directly into the EHR-workflow. Patients and the community will also have access to interactive, web-based health information, wellness tools, health assessments and actionable multimedia - all customizable to promote hospital brand and services lines.

"At Oakwood, our efforts focus on every patient, every time. We have a very diverse patient population making it even more important to be able to provide the right tools at the right time," said Lois Souva, director of nursing practice and informatics, Oakwood Healthcare.

"The integration of atient-specific resources saves our nurses time and provides them with several capabilities to improve workflow throughout the continuum of care - from patient and medication education at admission through post discharge. Extending our reach to the community with tools like this is just one more way we can meet our quality and wellness goals and provide information to the individuals and communities we serve."

By Oakwood integrating a single source of evidence-based education and consumer health engagement resources across multiple platforms, including embedding it in the EPIC EHR for access in any care setting, Oakwood clinicians can inform and engage patients to be active participants in their own care while promoting clinical consistency across the care continuum through tools that are convenient, easy-to-use, and efficient for clinicians and patients.

Micromedex CareNotes and Consumer Health Education featuring SmartEngage are part of the Micromedex Patient Connect Suite, a single-source solution of products that delivers evidence-based, comprehensive, consistent patient health education and consumer health engagement resources for every stage of care, including patient instructions, education materials and engagement resources for diagnosis and condition, medication, and laboratory tests, and advanced multi-media tools in multiple languages.

To learn more about Micromedex Integrated CareNotes patient education and Consumer Health Education featuring SmartEngage, or how your organization can purchase Micromedex Solutions, please call (800) 525-9083, option 4, or visit micromedex.com.

Oakwood Healthcare, Inc.

One of the founding organizations of Beaumont Health, Oakwood Healthcare is committed to improving the health and well-being of the individuals and communities in southeastern Michigan. As one of the largest employers in Wayne County, Oakwood provides acute, specialty, primary and preventive care services backed by excellence in research and education. In addition to its hospitals in Dearborn, Taylor, Trenton and Wayne, Oakwood operates 70 outpatient facilities, a rehabilitation skilled nursing facility and a residential retirement community. Oakwood's 9,000 employees and 1,300 physicians represent nearly every medical and surgical specialty and subspecialty. Visit Oakwood online at oakwood.org.

About Truven Health Analytics

Truven Health Analytics is dedicated to delivering the answers that clients need to improve healthcare quality and access, and reduce costs. Our unmatched data assets, technology, analytic expertise, and comprehensive perspective have served the healthcare industry for more than 30 years. Everyday our insights and solutions give hospitals and clinicians, employers and health plans, state and federal government, life sciences researchers, and policymakers the confidence they need to make the right decisions.

Truven Health Analytics owns some of the most trusted brands in healthcare, such as Micromedex, ActionOI, 100 Top Hospitals, MarketScan, and Advantage Suite. Truven Health has its principal offices in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Chicago; and Denver. For more information, please visit www.truvenhealth.com. To learn more about the Micromedex Solutions evidence-based content please visit www.micromedex.com.

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