Suppliers throughout the nation are persevering with their work to make value-based care at scale a actuality. Some of the current examples of this comes from Emory Healthcare in Atlanta — on Monday, the well being system introduced a partnership with Dallas-based startup Guidehealth designed to assist value-based main care attain greater than 350,000 sufferers throughout Georgia.
Guidehealth, based in 2023, is a value-based care enablement firm. It was based by two healthcare veterans — one being Sanjay Doddamani, the previous CEO of value-based care startup Upstream, and the opposite being Michael Gleeson, Arcadia’s former chief technique and innovation officer.
The co-founders launched Guidehealth final yr as a response to the necessity for know-how that helps well being techniques reach value-based care preparations whereas nonetheless sustaining monetary stability, Doddamani mentioned. The startup helps well being techniques scale value-based care by offering workers, know-how and experience to reinforce their present techniques, he defined.
For the brand new partnership, Guidehealth is working with Emory’s “inhabitants well being collaborative,” which is the well being system’s time period for a brand new subsidiary that features each employed and affiliated main care physicians collaborating in value-based care fashions.
Guidehealth will present Emory’s inhabitants well being collaborative with analytics, profiling and unified care plans for sufferers, Doddamani famous. He additionally identified that the startup will present workers members, referred to as well being guides, who can enhance high quality, scientific documentation and care administration.
In his view, this partnership represents a brand new mannequin for learn how to help clinically built-in networks in value-based care.
“This mannequin facilities round a remotely embedded well being information that works throughout the follow and their EHR. The well being information makes use of a collection of AI instruments to help the follow in addition to a broader time period of scientific and administrative consultants to make sure value-based care efficiency for that follow,” Doddamani said.
He mentioned the primary targets of the partnership are to assist Emory display how well being techniques can lead in value-based care, to help the transformation to worthwhile main care, enhance the affected person expertise and develop Emory’s presence within the Georgia market.
Patrick Hammond — CEO of the Emory Healthcare Inhabitants Well being Collaborative and CEO of the Emory Healthcare Community, the well being system’s clinically built-in community — famous that Guidehealth “checked off quite a few bins” throughout Emory’s seek for a value-based care enablement accomplice.
One in all these bins was Guidehealth’s capacity to speed up Emory’s efficiency in value-based agreements whereas decreasing the well being system’s operational execution danger prices, Hammond remarked. He additionally identified that the startup works with all payers lessons and may help advance Emory’s capacity to tackle two-sided danger, particularly in Medicare.
“Guidehealth brings not solely an industry-leading inhabitants administration and analytics platform, it additionally has been developed to help workflows in scientific practices. Guidehealth higher permits totally different main care workplaces working with totally different digital medical information to achieve success in inhabitants administration with out vital modifications to their normal workflows immediately,” Hammond declared.
He believes the startup’s platform may help Emory enhance main care throughout Georgia. In his view, the primary focuses of the collaboration are bettering affected person engagement and growing the frequency and effectiveness of preventive visits and screenings — all whereas decreasing the executive and operational burden on clinicians.
“This permits our suppliers to focus extra on what they do greatest: serving to our sufferers and serving our communities,” Hammond mentioned.
Emory plans for greater than 500 of its employed and affiliate main care suppliers to supply affected person care, training, analysis and group engagement at their follow places. They are going to have a purpose of seeing sufferers not less than yearly.
Guidehealth has related partnerships with different supplier organizations, together with AMITA Healthcare Community, Sinai Well being System Chicago and PA Medical Community.
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