CareSignal has partnered with the Texas Association of Community Health Centers to extend access, quality of care, and equity to every patient that is served by TACHC’s 73 federally qualified health centers.
“We’re excited about our new partnership with CareSignal to help increase access to care for our vulnerable patients across the stateIt’s crucial that we continue to find new solutions to ensure patients disproportionately impacted by chronic disease have access to the tools they need to stay healthy.”
Jana Eubank, executive director, TACHC
Through this partnership, the partners aim to reduce barriers for the state’s Medicaid population. TACHC health centers focus on consumers and offer integrated services based on the needs of the community. Now that CareSignal has joined TACHC, its centers will be able to offer technology that connects patients to their care team. More than 41% of TACHC health centers function in rural areas where patients may have limited or almost no access to technology.
TACHC and CareSignal will use accessible technology to promote health equity and connect patients digitally by increasing access to care among undeserved patients. CareSignal’s Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring platform facilitates staff at the TACHC centers to work top-of-license using automated patient surveys sent via text message instead of manual outbound care management calls. The partnership will aid in mitigating the challenge of staff shortage through CaerSignal’s automation in the first line of communication with patients. CareSignal triggers care managers whenever there is a need so that the staff can have a larger pool of patients without compromising on the quality of care.
Using CareSignal, TACHC’s member health centers will use real-time patient symptom data and support care teams to enhance health care quality, costs in chronically ill patients, and utilization.
The partnership with TACHC represents a unique privilege: this is an opportunity to serve over a dozen of the organizations and teams that are most committed to delivering high-quality, accessible, equitable care to populations traditionally hampered by geographic and socioeconomic barriers," said Blake Marggraff, CEO of CareSignal, a Lightbeam Company. "By including the nationally recognized Social Determinants of Health program for all participating centers, I believe we will deliver value across clinical, financial, and health equity measures."