FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE, HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS
Prnewswire | April 28, 2023
eVisit, the leading virtual care operating platform for health systems and large, complex healthcare delivery organizations, announced it has acquired Bluestream Health, an innovative digital front door and virtual care workflow solution that manages patient and provider interactions throughout the care delivery process. Terms of the acquisition were not announced.
With this acquisition, eVisit augments its highly innovative capabilities with complementary digital front doors and integrated language services for patients to seamlessly access care. eVisit's operating platform automates patient navigation and organizes patients and clinicians in one streamlined view, helping clinicians manage patient volumes more efficiently. The platform supports the distribution of digital care strategies that enable multiple clinicians to serve many patients simultaneously. This results in increased satisfaction for patients and clinicians, improved outcomes, and financial resiliency for healthcare delivery organizations.
"We are honored to welcome Bluestream Health's customers and talented team to eVisit," said Sachin Agrawal, CEO of eVisit. "eVisit and Bluestream share a common ethos of empowering complex healthcare delivery organizations in their journey to transform care with a digital-first approach. We believe that such organizations require a dedicated operating platform to combine historically-disparate capabilities. Bluestream accelerates the execution of eVisit's strategic value to the organizations we serve."
eVisit now empowers over 100 healthcare delivery organizations spanning 2,000 sites of care with a highly-configurable platform to deliver high-quality virtual care. Over 275,000 clinicians across all 50 states have access to eVisit to facilitate the delivery of millions of encounters annually.
"eVisit is the right strategic partner to further Bluestream's mission of bringing virtual care to patients, developing innovative workflow tools, and driving better health outcomes," said Matthew Davidge, CEO of Bluestream Health.
One of Bluestream's most successful client partnerships has served MedStar Health, the largest healthcare provider in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region, in becoming nationally recognized for leveraging connected care models to strengthen patient access, clinical teams, and innovation outcomes.
"eVisit takes its core strategy of creating the market-leading virtual care platform for health systems and other complex healthcare delivery organizations to the next level with their acquisition of Bluestream Health," said Bill Sheahan, Chief Innovation Officer, MedStar Health, and Executive Director, MedStar Institute for Innovation. "Our partnership with Bluestream has been essential in establishing and scaling telehealth throughout MedStar Health and it has enhanced visit quality, provider satisfaction, and business results in the process. With this news, MedStar Health welcomes advancing this successful partnership with eVisit to further accelerate the functionality, integration, and innovative possibilities of telehealth offerings within our care delivery model."
About eVisit
eVisit is the leading virtual care operating platform for innovative health systems and large, complex healthcare delivery organizations. Backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the platform supports seamless integration of virtual care initiatives across service lines with configurable workflows to increase access, improve quality, and optimize clinical teams to utilize their full skills and experience while improving financial resilience for the health system. eVisit is trusted by leading health systems, and other large, complex healthcare delivery organizations.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY, DIGITAL HEALTHCARE
Prnewswire | April 20, 2023
Medecision®, a leading provider of digital care management solutions and services, and Uber Health, Uber's healthcare arm, are collaborating to make it easier for health plans and healthcare providers to break down transportation barriers that prevent many individuals from accessing critical, non-emergent healthcare services. With an estimated 3.6 million Americans missing medical appointments each year due to lack of transportation, the collaboration will help Medecision customers coordinate their transportation more proactively and monitor their utilization more closely to determine if additional outreach is needed.
As a result of the collaboration, Uber Health will be integrated into the Medecision Aerial™ Social Care Coordinator solution, which provides health plans and providers with real-time insight into individuals' social determinants of health (SDOH) barriers. While most health plans and providers rely on 90-day stale data models to identify these SDOH barriers, the Aerial solution identifies them instantly and makes it easy for the care team to connect the at-risk individual with appropriate resources.
One key SDOH barrier flagged by Aerial Social Care Coordinator is transportation. Since Uber Health is seamlessly integrated into Aerial Social Care Coordinator, Medecision customers can immediately arrange for, manage, and pay for a ride with Uber Health for any at-risk individual with an upcoming medical appointment.
Care teams using Medecision's Aerial Social Care Coordinator can also track an individual's transportation utilization to determine if they attended the appointment. If not, the care team can proactively follow up to try to re-engage the individual.
"Our collaboration with Uber Health represents our ongoing commitment to helping our customers break down barriers by embracing innovative, new, and effective approaches that conserve their resources while improving health outcomes," said Kenneth Young, president and CEO, Medecision. "Lack of transportation to healthcare is a highly common, highly influential, and highly addressable social determinant of health. We're thrilled to be helping our customers address this very important and complex healthcare problem, with a collaboration that has resulted in a very simple and easy to apply solution."
Uber Health connects millions of patients to healthcare services. To date, more than 3,000 healthcare customers have adopted Uber Health to connect their patients to care. This integration into Aerial Social Care Coordinator will enable a potential forty-two million individuals who are covered by Medecision's health plan and provider organization customers to more easily tap into Uber Health's transportation solutions.
"Scalable transportation solutions have long been a challenge that health plans and providers have had to grapple with," said Caitlin Donovan, Global Head of Uber Health. "Uber Health is proud to be a part of Medecision's newest solution, and enable care coordinators to close critical SDoH gaps, while making the most of each member touchpoint."
Both Medecision and Uber Health are committed to mending the transportation gap that millions of Americans face. With consequences of missed or delayed visits ranging from longer illnesses and exacerbated chronic conditions to unnecessary emergency department visits, hospital admissions, and readmissions, this integration will help ensure more Americans have an equal opportunity to experience better health outcomes and live healthier lives.
About Medecision®
Medecision is a digital care management company whose solutions and services are used by leading health plans and care delivery organizations to support more than 42 million people nationwide. AerialTM, a HITRUST CSF®-certified, SaaS solution from Medecision, seamlessly connects the healthcare ecosystem to powerful data and insights that drive meaningful consumer engagement while creating efficiencies to reduce costs and support effective care, case and utilization management. Aveus, Medecision's professional services division, helps business leaders solve complex challenges and drive better performance, leaving organizations more capable.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY, DIGITAL HEALTHCARE
Prnewswire | May 08, 2023
apree health, a combination of Castlight Health and Vera Whole Health, was formed to marry best-in-class digital engagement and advanced primary care to drive better health outcomes. Today, the company is launching a secure, cloud native platform called apree foundation. apree foundation is a multi-year investment to create the industry's most advanced secure cloud native healthcare data and technology platform. By aggregating, integrating, and normalizing massive amounts of healthcare data, apree foundation aims to bridge the industry's data silos to deliver a highly personalized healthcare experience for millions of Americans.
The foundation enables apree health to deliver an experience focused on the person—one that engages each individual, drives timely next-best actions appropriate for their care journey, and ultimately delivers high-value outcomes. It forms the basis upon which apree health is innovating the next generation of solutions including seamless digital experiences, tech-enabled omnichannel services, and advanced primary care delivered across virtual and physical care settings. apree's Research and Development team has leveraged more than a decade of operational experience with the platform to ensure the foundation is highly available, secure, scalable, and privacy preserving.
"Everything we do puts the person at the center," said Vijay Anand, executive vice president, Research and Development, at apree health. "apree foundation is a first-of-its-kind health tech platform that will empower large employers and health plans with the most advanced and integrated digital health and care delivery solution. By partnering with a best-in-class technology partner such as Google Cloud, we can fully unleash the power of data and technology to deliver improved health outcomes and a better member experience."
Moving apree health's core application and data infrastructure to Google Cloud provides the company with scalable access to additional data processing capabilities such as BigQuery. With BigQuery, apree aggregates and processes a large array of complex data from more than 700 sources that reflects dozens of terabytes of healthcare data, including more than a billion claims from 15 dental payers and 19 medical payers. Other critical data pipelines include eligibility, claims, biometrics, benefit plan designs and utilization information, social determinants of health (SDoH), population data, and third party point solutions from across the healthcare ecosystem, all integrated through application programming interfaces (APIs) and file-based capabilities. With BigQuery, apree health can aggregate this data securely and at scale, extract the valuable insights to develop person-specific knowledge, and deliver a seamless and integrated care experience.
Leveraging this data infrastructure, apree foundation's predictive analytics engine then applies advanced algorithms and machine learning to deliver actionable insights and personalized recommendations enabling purchasers of healthcare to proactively manage population health, predict risk, and optimize healthcare outcomes. As a very early adopter of machine learning, the company developed and deployed machine learning algorithms for personalized recommendations in 2015, following its initial use of machine learning in 2010 for medical price estimation in a groundbreaking healthcare price transparency tool.
Finally, apree foundation applies the scaled capabilities of BigQuery with its sophisticated master data management framework to develop comprehensive population-level insights and health reporting for key stakeholders and clients. Powerful analytical capabilities track performance to outcomes and create insights through visualizations to drive care improvement.
"It's great to see apree health leverage Google Cloud to scale their operations and extract valuable insights from their data," said Aashima Gupta, global director of Healthcare Strategy & Solutions, Google Cloud. "With BigQuery, apree health can now aggregate and process data at scale, which is essential for their expansion into value-based care delivery. We're confident that Google Cloud will continue to support apree health's growth as they continue to innovate in the healthcare industry."
About apree health
apree health brings together a best-in-class engagement platform with an advanced primary care model to provide a vastly better health and care experience, improve outcomes, and significantly lower the total cost of care for a population. Its proven solutions are built on a robust data and technology foundation that provides a rich understanding of each person, a navigation experience that engages individuals in their health and care, and an integrated care team that manages the individual's whole health. apree health was formed when leading advanced primary care provider Vera Whole Health merged with digital health innovator Castlight Health in 2022. Both companies were founded in 2008. apree health partners with top U.S. employers, leading provider groups, and some of the country's largest, most progressive health plans.
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