ORLANDO, Fla. and
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Feb. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) Watson Health and the Central New York Care Collaborative
(CNYCC) today announced an agreement to create a cognitive
population health platform intended to connect more than 2,000
healthcare and community based providers across six counties in
Central New York. The platform
will be designed to help improve health for residents across the
region, with the goal to reduce costs in the Medicaid system by
decreasing the amount of avoidable emergency department visits and
hospital readmissions by 25% over the course of the program. The
population health platform will integrate IBM Watson Care Manager
with broader Watson Health offerings and run on the Watson Health
Cloud.
The untapped value of insights from health industry data is
estimated to be near $300 billion
annually.(1) Patient data often resides in multiple
siloes, preventing physicians from understanding the full spectrum
of health issues that could impact a patient's care and potential
risk factors. For example, an endocrinologist may be unaware that
her diabetes patient also suffers from depression, which
significantly impacts the risk of non-adherence.(2)
For CNYCC's Population Health Management (PHM) System, IBM
Watson Health will integrate data from a variety of care settings
-- primary care, post-acute care, behavioral health, community and
acute care – and more than 75 electronic health record systems,
health information exchanges, and other data sources. CNYCC's PHM
system will aggregate that diverse data and produce holistic
patient insights incorporating clinical history, social
determinants, and behavioral health. Clinicians can access
information about their individual patients from the platform, and
opt to connect with a patient to prompt adoption of healthy
behaviors relevant to office visits and care management; for
example, send a private reminder to pick up a prescription.
"Our mission at CNYCC is to improve the health of our community
by coordinating services and building partnerships throughout the
healthcare system," said Virginia
Opipare, CEO, CNYCC. "The ability of our providers to access
critical healthcare information through a Watson-powered, cloud-based population health
management platform is the optimal foundation for this
transformational work. The PHM System will meet our current needs
and scale to keep pace with the evolving needs of the patient
population we serve. And, because it is a cognitive system, it
learns as it goes and will return increasing value to the region
over time."
"Central New York is leading
the way for a national movement toward an effective, scalable
patient-centric approach to population health management and
value-based care," said Anil Jain, M.D., FACP, VP and Chief Health
Informatics Officer, Value-Based Care, IBM Watson Health.
"This is about identifying high risk individuals and using
Watson-based tools and services to
help providers engage with patients to improve health. As the
healthcare industry shifts away from fee-for-service to a
value-based system, care providers need integrated solutions that
help them gain a holistic view of each individual within a
population of patients."
Watson Care Manager combines care management best practices and
automated workflows enabling care managers to create individualized
care plans that address all determinants of health and engage
individuals for better health. The system brings together the
cognitive computing power of Watson with IBM's established expertise in
population health management and social program management. In
addition to surfacing information about a specific individual, it
can also run similarity analytics to help clinicians determine
potential risk factors that have been found in "patients like
this," drawing on broader health data in the Watson Health Cloud.
Importantly, Watson Health's population health platform provides
seamless patient engagement, to close the loop from patient
insights to engagement and action.
Sources
(1) McKinsey, retrieved from
http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/feature/In-healthcare-information-silos-block-patient-data-analysis.
(2) Gonzales, J.S., et al. (2008). Depression and Diabetes
Treatment Nonadherence: A Meta-Analysis. Diabetes Care (12).
Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19033420.
About the Central New York Care Collaborative
CNYCC is
a non-profit organization that connects more than 2,000 healthcare
and community based service providers across six counties in
Central New York (Cayuga, Madison, Lewis, Oneida, Onondaga, and Oswego). As a lead agency implementing
New York State's Delivery System
Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program, CNYCC works with over 170
organizations to coordinate care and improve access to services for
over 200,000 Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured patients across
the region. CNYCC is one of 25 lead agencies across the state of
New York, charged with
facilitating and coordinating community-level collaborations with a
focus on system transformation to reduce avoidable hospital
readmissions and emergency department use by 25% by the year 2020.
CNYCC is also tasked with preparing healthcare Safety-Net providers
for the transition to a Value Based Payment model of care
delivery.
About IBM Watson Health
Watson is the first commercially available
cognitive computing capability representing a new era in computing.
The system, delivered through the cloud, analyzes high volumes of
data, understands complex questions posed in natural language, and
proposes evidence-based answers. Watson continuously learns, gaining in value
and knowledge over time, from previous interactions. In
April 2015, the company launched IBM
Watson Health and the Watson Health Core cloud platform (now Watson
Platform for Health). The new unit will help improve the ability of
doctors, researchers and insurers to innovate by surfacing insights
from the massive amount of personal health data being created and
shared daily. The Watson Platform for Health can mask patient
identities and allow for information to be shared and combined with
a dynamic and constantly growing aggregated view of clinical,
research and social health data. For more information on IBM
Watson, visit: ibm.com/watson. For more information on IBM Watson
Health, visit: ibm.com/watsonhealth.
Media Contacts
Christine Douglass
IBM Watson Health
415-535-4479
cgdouglass@us.ibm.com
BJ Adigun
CNYCC
315-703-2966
bj.adigun@cnycares.org
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