May 2013 New!

ARC Community Services of Madison WI signs with Forward Health Group – implements PopulationManager® to improve population health

ARC has implemented FHG's PopulationManager® in the course of the STAR-QI project. Read more

May 2013

Martin's Point Health Care of Portland, Maine, renews agreement with Forward Health Group

Three more years of Fresh Data to be harvested with PopulationManager®. Read more

April 2013

Mercy Four Rivers Division set to install Forward Health Group's PopulationManager®

New population health initiative with The Guideline Advantage™. Read more

April 2013

Madison's new cluster of health care technology companies is coming into its own

FHG in the vanguard of health IT innovation. Read more

April 2013

New! Hennepin County Medical Center Positive Care Center re-ups for Fresh Data

Forward Health Group's PopulationManager® continues population health drive for HIV care improvement

November 2012

The Guideline Advantage™ teams with Forward Health Group to drive population health

Forward Health Group is named Program Technology Provider to The Guideline Advantage Read More

November 2012

The Center for Health Enhancement System Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison moves on underserved patient populations

Aiming to fill a long-standing void in health information technology, The Center for Health Enhancement System Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (CHESS) is moving aggressively to overcome key barriers in the of management of drug abuse and HIV screening in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Read More

November 2012

AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin and Forward Health Group team to improve quality of care

AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) has selected PopulationManager® to support efforts to maximize the quality of care for some of Wisconsin's most vulnerable patients. Read More

September 2012

FHG approved as Bridges to Excellence Data Aggregator

Martin's Point Health Care of Portland, ME, achieves Bridges to Excellence Recognition for diabetes. Read More

July 2012

Interview - FHG featured in Healthcare IT Strategies newsletter

Michael Barbouche and Dr John Studebaker talk small data and the secret sauce. Read More

June 2012

What was it like at the 2012 Health Datapalooza? FHG CEO Michael Barbouche rocks Billian's HealthDATA Vitals eNewsletter

From the moment attendees entered the conference hall, there was a very positive vibe - cool stuff was going to happen. This was clearly not a typical health IT event. Read More

June 2012

Forward Health Group Honored by Department of Defense for Extraordinary Support of Employees Serving in the Wisconsin National Guard and Reserve

Michael Barbouche, Founder/CEO of FHG was presented with a Patriot Award. Read More

May 2012

Fresh Data harvest for healthy moms and babies in Northern New England

OBNET, a web-based obstetrical registry, has moved the improvement needle on some of perinatal care’s greatest challenges and are now moving to advance further by implementing Forward Health Group's PopulationManager®, a powerful health care measurement tool. Learn more. Read More

April 2012

Forward Health Group partners with State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services

Continuing its innovations in health care measurement, Forward Health Group (FHG) announced a partnership with the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services in a pilot project focusing on mental health and substance abuse. Read More

April 2012

Wisconsin State Journal Q&A with Michael Barbouche

"I wanted to build a very adaptive set of tools that would allow any organization to take advantage of the data and put together a plan to drive improvement, both in patient health and in cost savings." Read More

February 2012

Forward Health Group Named as a Finalist at West Coast Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit

Forward Health Group (FHG) has been selected to participate with major health systems as one of six health care Innovator Finalists at the prestigious West Coast BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit. Read More

January 2012

A brave new health care world - St. John Hospital and Medical Center of Detroit, Michigan enters a new transformative era of quality care—harvests fresh data with Forward Health Group's PopulationManager®

Forward Health Group announced that St. John is implementing PopulationManager, its advanced set of health care measurement tools in its Departments of Medical Education and Internal Medicine. Read More

November 2011

PopulationManager 3.0 Awarded ONC Meaningful Use Certification

Forward Health Group, an innovative provider of health care measurement tools for physicians, administrators and payors, today announced that PopulationManager® 3.0 has achieved 2011/2012 EHR Modular ONC-ATCB Certification. Read More

October 2011

Martin's Point Health Care of Portland, Maine drives performance improvement, harvests fresh data with FHG's PopulationManager

Martin's Point Health Care, a not-for-profit regional health care provider based in Portland, Maine, is implementing Forward Health Group's powerful PopulationManager® health care tool as a key part of its drive to improve outcomes. Read More

July 2011

FHG names Charles M. Sloan to its Board of Directors

Adding to its already strong oversight team, Forward Health Group welcomes a new member to its Board of Directors. Charles M. Sloan, Executive Vice President of Mid-Continent Capital, brings extensive financial management expertise to the company. Read More

May 2011

Joslin Diabetes Center partners with Forward Health Group to harvest Fresh Data™

Joslin Diabetes Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is launching a landmark Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) research initiative to inform ongoing efforts to improve diabetes care. Read More

March 2011

Forward Health Group's PopulationManager compatible with The Guideline Advantage™

Forward Health Group has joined with the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association/American Stroke Association in a major new outpatient care improvement initiative—The Guideline Advantage™. Read More

March 2011

Joslin Diabetes Center and Forward Health Group launch initiative to resolve the critical link connecting continuing medical education (CME) to sustained quality improvement

Joslin Diabetes Center has launched a groundbreaking initiative for primary care physicians to improve diabetes care. Joslin, with technology from Forward Health Group, Inc., is providing qualifying primary care practices in the United States with the critical capability to extract usefulness out of existing clinical data at the individual patient level, and to combine this information with practice improvement support and education. Read More

February 2011

Listen to Forward Health Group Founder/CEO Michael Barbouche talk about how fresh data can move health care forward.

He is interviewed on WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio's Lake Effect program. Hear More

January 2011

Forward Health Group Featured in Government Health IT

In an article titled, Epidemiology as a Service, learn how PopulationManager supports the clinicians at Hennepin County Medical Center. Read More

October 2010

FHG partners with CMS to author Expert Column on PQRI for Medscape

Michael Barbouche, FHG CEO, and Sean Thomas, FHG CMO, collaborated with CMS Officials Dan Green, MD and Regina Reymann Chell, RN, BSN to create a physician education piece titled, "Frequently Asked Questions About PQRI" Read More

April 2010

PopulationManager® earns second place honors in the 2010 Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest

A panel of 78 judges reviewed and scored business plans from the 284 participants in the statewide contest. PopulationManager, participating in the Information Technology category, was one of twenty-one entries selected for the final round. James Mattes presented a seven minute overview of PopulationManager at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference. Read More