Atlantic Health System will deploy AI-driven personalized medication management
Atlantic Health System will deploy vendor FeelBetter’s artificial intelligence-based precision population health platform to optimize medication management for polypharmacy patients at three accountable care organizations.
WHY IT MATTERS
The Boston and Tel Aviv-based machine learning technology company offers healthcare providers a tool that can alert them to patients at high risk for deterioration and avoidable hospitalization due to medication management, and proactively suggest interventions to reduce these risks.
Combining new pharmacology with AI and clinical insights can create a whole-patient approach to polypharmacy management, ‘one that goes beyond a single disease, diagnosis or point in time, and focuses entirely on care pathways, both at the individual and at the level public health. ”, Liat Primor, CEO and co-founder of Feel bettersaid a statement.
The tool is designed to automate manual processes, scale personalized support for physicians and clinical pharmacists and arm them with the ability to deliver safer patient care, said Dr. Jim Barr, vice president of clinical intelligence at Atlantic Health System.
“In addition to physicians, clinical pharmacists play an integral role on healthcare teams, especially when it comes to the management of polypharmacy patients,” he noted.
The healthcare system, which operates in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York City metropolitan area, consists of more than 550 care locations, including seven hospitals, and forms the Atlantic Alliance through its partnership with the Atlantic Accountable Care Organization and Optimus Healthcare. Partners.
THE BIG TREND
Last year at the global HIMSS23 conference, Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer at Clalit Health Services and board member of HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare IT news, explained how predictive, proactive care enables earlier interventions. Improving outcomes depends on the ability to parse data and know which patients are at high risk, he said.
Analytics and risk management helped the Franciscan Alliance Healthcare Ministry create customizable polypharmacy protocols that helped manage patients with high-risk prescriptions and better coordinate outpatient care services.
Through care management and engagement tools, the Alliance was able to generate $2.2 million in savings across multiple Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans, the health system announced in November.
ON THE RECORD
“Addressing the enormous challenges associated with polypharmacy, in which patients take multiple medications for multiple chronic diseases and conditions, is critical to improving health outcomes and quality of life, controlling costs, and staying healthy of our older patients in our communities for as long as possible,” said Dr. Thomas Kloos, vice president of Atlantic Health System and president of Atlantic Accountable Care Organization, said in a statement.
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