NeuroFlow acquires and integrates Intermountain’s behavioral health analytics model
NeuroFlow announced this week that it has adopted the proprietary behavioral health analytics model developed at Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
The deal, which integrates the clinically validated model into the NeuroFlow platform, enhances the company’s analytics and AI capabilities and enables broader deployment of powerful risk assessment models, the company said.
The predictive complexity algorithm – first developed internally at Intermountain and developed and refined over the past decade – identifies relationships between combined data variables, to guide targeted risk decisions and team treatment options and provide feedback on the effectiveness of ongoing interventions, while tracking and assessing changes in patients’ conditions is supported.
“In primary care, there are many interdependent factors to consider when identifying mental and physical health and social care needs,” said Tammer Attallah, LCSW, behavioral health clinic executive director at Intermountain Health, in a statement.
“The creation of our standardized workflow assesses the complexity of these variables and provides shared decision support that identifies targeted, evidence-based physical, mental health and social resources,” explains Attallah.
The model leverages data available from sources such as patient self-reports, disease registries, electronic health records and claims – and uses that information not only to stratify, but also to create a more contextualized and effectively integrated pathway of care from higher to offer quality.
NeuroFlow notes that patients are often overloaded with too many screening and assessment tools, and providers are challenged to integrate disparate data points, hindering patient and provider engagement and hindering potential opportunities for shared decision-making. The model developed by Intermountain can help streamline behavioral care processes with more reliable and relevant data.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Intermountain has long been a leader in artificial intelligence and analytics innovations, such as AI-powered research aimed at improving acute care, genAI to reduce the burden on physicians, and a center to guide ethical implementations .
NeuroFlow’s latest deal with the healthcare system stems from a strategic partnership announced last summer, and the two organizations say they will continue to collaborate on risk complexity model innovation.
NeuroFlow – which one acquired behavioral health assessment and measurement-based healthcare company Owl in 2024 – says it plans to make the model’s enhanced capabilities available to other customers later this year, offering healthcare systems behavioral health intelligence to inform provider decision-making and outcomes to help patients improve.
ON THE RECORD
“Intermountain’s proven clinical workflow model is delivered through high-functioning teams, an integrated mental and physical treatment plan and the associated combination of targeted team resources,” says Dr. Brenda Reiss-Brennan, senior mental health integration implementation advisor at Intermountain Health, said in a statement. “This provides highly effective and efficient routes to positive outcomes.”
Mike Miliard is editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News
Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com
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