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How Emory’s New Partnership Seeks to Scale Worth-Primarily based Care Throughout Georgia


Suppliers throughout the nation are persevering with their work to make value-based care at scale a actuality. Some of the latest 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 major 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 programs reach value-based care preparations whereas nonetheless sustaining monetary stability, Doddamani stated. The startup helps well being programs scale value-based care by offering workers, know-how and experience to enhance their current programs, 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 major 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, known as well being guides, who can enhance high quality, medical documentation and care administration.

In his view, this partnership represents a brand new mannequin for easy methods to assist clinically built-in networks in value-based care. 

“This mannequin facilities round a remotely embedded well being information that works throughout the apply and their EHR. The well being information makes use of a collection of AI instruments to assist the apply in addition to a broader time period of medical and administrative consultants to make sure value-based care efficiency for that apply,” Doddamani acknowledged.

He stated the principle objectives of the partnership are to assist Emory display how well being programs can lead in value-based care, to assist the transformation to worthwhile major 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 a variety of containers” throughout Emory’s seek for a value-based care enablement accomplice.

One among these containers was Guidehealth’s skill 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 can assist advance Emory’s skill 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 assist workflows in medical practices. Guidehealth higher allows completely different major care workplaces working with completely different digital medical data to achieve success in inhabitants administration with out vital modifications to their customary workflows as we speak,” Hammond declared.

He believes the startup’s platform can assist Emory enhance major care throughout Georgia. In his view, the principle 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 finest: serving to our sufferers and serving our communities,” Hammond stated.

Emory plans for greater than 500 of its employed and affiliate major care suppliers to supply affected person care, schooling, analysis and group engagement at their apply places. They’ll have a objective of seeing sufferers at the least every year.

Guidehealth has related partnerships with different supplier organizations, together with AMITA Healthcare Community, Sinai Well being System Chicago and PA Scientific Community.

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