Atlantic Well being System introduced this month that it’s adopting FeelBetter know-how for polypharmacy affected person administration. Sufferers in polypharmacy are those that use 5 or extra drugs concurrently.
The well being system, which offers care primarily in New Jersey but in addition in components of New York and Pennsylvania, now makes use of the startup's custom-made treatment administration platform throughout all of its accountable care organizations (ACOs).
FeelBetter, primarily based in Tel Aviv and Boston, was based in 2018. The startup is designed to handle a rising public well being downside amongst older sufferers: the truth that a lot of them have been prescribed a number of drugs for simultaneous use. This paves the way in which for poor well being outcomes, elevated use of well being companies and elevated prices of care, mentioned FeelBetter CEO Liat Primor.
The US healthcare system's flawed treatment administration protocols trigger 275,000 deaths and greater than $528 billion in avoidable prices annually, it mentioned.
“We imagine the time has come to rethink treatment administration,” Primor said. “We’re leveraging know-how to ship a extra personalised, whole-patient method to treatment administration, one which goes past a single illness, analysis or second and focuses holistically on every particular person's care journey.”
The FeelBetter platform identifies sufferers at excessive danger of degradation and avoidable hospitalization as a result of suboptimal treatment administration and proactively suggests rapid and actionable interventions to scale back these dangers, he defined. The answer additionally helps medical doctors monitor affected person progress and measure the impression of scientific interventions, she added.
For its new partnership with Atlantic Well being System, FeelBetter will deploy its platform to flag sufferers at excessive danger of being hospitalized for polypharmacy-related causes, suggest treatment adjustments, and monitor particular person care processes. Atlantic Well being System will implement the know-how in three ACOs serving greater than 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries and greater than 420,000 commercially insured sufferers.
FeelBetter's goal clients are organizations targeted on value-based care, Primor mentioned. The startup's SaaS resolution might help them enhance useful resource allocation, shortly cut back the burden of avoidable hospitalizations and improve the capability of scientific pharmacists, she mentioned.
In response to Primor, FeelBetter's foremost opponents are Arine and Tabula Rasa.
“All of our opponents promote to well being plans and combine with claims, whereas we go to suppliers and combine each the EMR and claims,” he said.
FeelBetter's know-how additionally “goes past a single second or sickness,” Primor added. The startup's platform encompasses real-time and historic knowledge to evaluate the whole affected person and comprehensively convey an individual's well being journey, he defined.
Along with the Atlantic Well being System information, FeelBetter will announce a couple of extra well being system shoppers within the coming months, Primor mentioned.
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