NEW
YORK, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Intermountain
Health has expanded its agreement and partnership with CareCentra,
Inc., to include remote monitoring of patients with chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and adult asthma to better
detect symptom exacerbation and intervene earlier.
CareCentra's prevention-as-a-service platform will now be used
to monitor distal signs of risk using a framework of data points
and biometrics from digital devices and patient reported
information in combination with their unique proprietary
algorithms.
CareCentra's AI will respond to early risk signals by coaching
patients on proper inhalation technique for optimal medication
delivery, alerting patients to environmental risks, helping remove
barriers for medication adherence, and prompting a range of
lifestyle behaviors that can improve outcomes.
When the AI senses that risk of exacerbation is too high to be
managed by the AI or through behavioral changes, it sends an alert
to the Pulmonary Disease Navigator team, registered respiratory
therapists, for care coordination with the patient's primary care
provider and intervention – keeping the care team connected
24/7.
Intermountain Health is a leader in healthcare innovation and
was recently awarded the 2023 HIMSS Davies Award for their Hospital
Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), using Pulmonary Disease
Navigators (PDNs) to reduce 30-day COPD readmission by 11.2%.
The CareCentra platform allows Intermountain Health to start
scaling this initiative to the approximately 300,000 patients with
COPD and adult asthma, who have received care at Intermountain
Health's 33 hospitals and 385 clinics.
Vasant Kumar, CEO of CareCentra
said, "By leveraging digital health approaches that use behavior
science in combination with AI/Machine Learning (ML) models, we not
only sense distal risk, but we also help shape patient behaviors to
manage that risk at home."
"CareCentra's AI allows us to replicate the day-to-day
monitoring and coaching of our Pulmonary Disease Navigators, while
digitally monitoring risk levels and alerting PDNs to intervene
with only the most critical patients," said Kim Bennion, director of respiratory care
research at Intermountain Health. "The human element of care can
never be replaced, but we can make it even more efficient by
bringing care directly to the patient when they need it most."
The CareCentra platform provides a near real-time remote
patient monitoring (RPM) system that captures data from multiple
sources, as well as a range of devices, with data points, including
expiratory flow rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, heart
rate, inspiratory flow rates, date/time stamps of medication
delivery, and more.
"We're creating an early warning system -a sort of 'check
engine' light - to keep patients out of the hospital," said
Kumar.
Intermountain Health and CareCentra have been innovating
together for nearly a decade. Intermountain has used the CareCentra
platform in efforts to reduce hospitalization and healthcare costs
in cardiovascular disease, heart failure, diabetes, maternal fetal
medicine, and now respiratory care.
"Our chronic lung patients deserve to be given every advantage
that connected care has to offer. Through technology, we believe we
can provide even better access to high-touch, personalized care in
the most convenient and accessible way for our patients."
About CareCentra, Inc:
CareCentra, Inc. is a
behavior-shaping company based in the U.S. that enables value-based
care through an AI-driven, prevention-as-a-service platform. The
CareCentra platform leverages data science, Nobel Prize-winning
nudge theory, behavior science and personal technologies for remote
patient monitoring and coordinate care management for patients
across the entire spectrum of chronic and acute conditions.
CareCentra's AI-driven platform was proven to better patient
outcomes and lower healthcare costs in Randomized Clinical Trials
and is now used at several U.S. health systems to reduce
admission/readmission while increasing patient engagement and
improving care plan adherence.
About Intermountain Health:
Headquartered in Utah with
locations in six states and additional operations across the
western U.S., Intermountain Health is a nonprofit system
of 33 hospitals, 385 clinics, medical groups with some 4,600
employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plans
division called Select Health with more than one million
members, and other health services. Helping people live the
healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is committed to improving
community health and is widely recognized as a leader in
transforming healthcare by using evidence-based best practices to
consistently deliver high-quality outcomes at sustainable
costs.
Contact: vasant.kumar@carecentra.com t: +1 (212) 542-0465
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