Cerner has announced that Geisnger Health System subsidiary xG Health Solutions will use Cerner’s HealtheIntent population health management platform and, in turn, Cerner will use xG Health’s clinical content.
xG Health’s care management clinical content automates the assessment of a variety of hereditary, socioeconomic, physical, behavioral and environmental risk factors, as well as warning signs and symptoms associated with specific conditions. Cerner clients will be able to use xG Health’s clinical content within HealtheCare, Cerner’s community care management solution that provides algorithms with the ability to identify, stratify and prioritize individuals for assignment to aligned care managers.
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The HealtheCare and xG Health clinical content collaboration will provide evidence-based patient assessments for dozens of conditions, be integrated into workflows, and automate the generation of patient-specific action plans to boost personalized care, the vendors said.
The agreement will also see Cerner integrate xG Health’s analytics content into Cerner’s HealtheAnalytics system. The alignment expands Cerner’s population health management suite to provide organizations with analytic discoveries that can help reduce costs and improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes, Cerner said.
“What interested us in xG Health is the commercial arm of Geisinger Health System, which acts as a testbed for technology,” said Brad Carey, vice president and general manager of population health. “We’ve initially partnered with xG Health on things that revolve around care management content and population health, and are looking to xG Health’s business intelligence specially derived from claims data.”
Cerner also announced that the University of Kansas Hospital will deploy the HealtheIntent population health management platform to coordinate and manage care in rural Kansas communities, according to Robert Moser, MD, director of the Kansas Heart and Stroke Collaborative. Moser said the collaborative will also use HealtheCare, Cerner’s community care management system, to engage at-risk patient and ideally provide optimal treatment resources.
Cerner’s population health management platform will be featured in Cerner Booth 2032 at HIMSS16, Feb. 29-March 4 at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas.
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