PHM Implementation First Step On ‘Journey Into Value-Based Care'

By Karla Paris

40,000 patients see improved care through Midwest non-profit’s population health management roll-out.

A new independent HealthLeaders Media report supported by McKesson explores how leading healthcare organizations are making progress in population health, including care redesign, collaboration, risk-sharing, and population targeting.

The report, Population Health: Are You as Ready as You Think You Are?, includes data from a survey of the 7,400-member HealthLeaders Media Council, along with a new segmentation tool that allows access to specific data based on setting, revenue, and more.

One of the largest nonprofit health care organizations has advanced its population health management (PHM) program and is already seeing the fruits of its labor. A press release notes one of the Unites States’ largest nonprofit health care organizations, BJC HealthCare (BJC), has implemented the Jiva population health management solution from ZeOmega Inc. to enhance care coordination, improve patient engagement, and increase the quality of care for 40,000 patients in the BJC Accountable Care Organization (ACO).

BJC sought a solution to help generate measurable and sustainable improvements in care quality, cost-effectiveness, and patient satisfaction. Jiva is expected to help the BJC ACO better manage care transitions, proactively identify and engage patients most in need of interventions, and integrate disease management components – including care analytics, care plans, and configurable assessments.

BJC and its care management are utilizing Jiva to deliver:

• An integrated real time rules-driven workflow application that promotes transparency between BJC’s utilization management, care management, and disease management functions.
• Embedded clinical analytics to stratify the population risk, identify gaps in care, and deliver BJC’s personalized care plans.
• Integrated workflow for BJC’s health, wellness, and lifestyle support programs complemented by content from health risk assessments, clinical protocols, and business rules.
• Capabilities for multi-channel communications that can deliver personal health records, patient decision aids, health management tools, clinical content for health education, and decision support tools at the BJC’s point of care.
• The ability to exchange data with external systems, consolidate information across disparate data sources, and present this information through web services to BJC’s physicians, individuals, and care managers.

BJC HealthCare is focused on delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois, and mid-Missouri regions. With 2013 net revenues of $4 billion, BJC serves the healthcare needs of urban, suburban, and rural communities all through its 12 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care, and hospice.

SOURCE: Business Wire