Upon the implementation of Medicare’s Prospective Payment System in 1983, the assessment of patients’ severity of illness became a critical issue. Dr. Mohlenbrock responded by founding a company, Verras, and developed the Acuity Index Method, which is a risk-adjusted clinical information system for monitoring and improving quality and cost-efficient inpatient care. Recognizing information sharing to be another compelling need throughout all levels of healthcare and among mission-critical first-responders within Homeland Security, he founded Crossflo Systems (now PDSG) in 2002 to fulfill this national imperative.

These technologies enable four essential functions of organizations that are moving toward “accountable care” whether formally recognized federal ACOs or simply more efficient enterprises: 1. Standards-based, information interoperability for the rapid and secure transfer of clinical data and patients’ records to the point of care, 2. Continuous medical quality improvements, 3. Cost containment and 4. Physicians’ reimbursements based on quality metrics. (The objective measures and algorithms necessary to equitably distribute outcomes-based physician reimbursements have been developed and deployed by Verras for pay-for-performances initiatives.)

Dr. Mohlenbrock received his BS degree from the University of Illinois and his MD from the St. Louis University School of Medicine. He is a member of the American Medical Association and holds fellowships in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American College of Surgeons and the American College of Physician Executives. He is a noted international lecturer and has published numerous articles on measuring and improving the quality and cost efficiency of medical care. His clinical practice is presently limited to assisting his orthopedic partners in surgery.