SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Memora
Health, a technology company that offers an intelligent platform
for powering complex care workflows and simple patient
communication, today announced a new care delivery model together
with Frontier Psychiatry, a telepsychiatry practice based in
Montana.
Before the pandemic, Montana
had the nation's third highest rate of suicide. Compounded with
significant budget cuts to community based mental-health services
and widespread provider shortages, the Behavioral Health Alliance
of Montana says the state mental
healthcare system is "in danger of imminent collapse."
Frontier Psychiatry, powered by Memora Health, is on a mission
to extend psychiatric care to every community across Montana. Frontier Psychiatry works with
regional partners to assess and overcome barriers to care using
telepsychiatry. One access point is through hospital emergency
rooms where patients are unlikely to see a psychiatrist on-site.
Frontier Psychiatry answers emergency room consultation requests
within two hours, completes a risk assessment in real-time and
initiates a patient-centered treatment plan remotely. Memora
Health's platform has allowed Frontier Psychiatry to complete
virtual visits, manage care coordination, and quickly scale timely
access to care, seeing 10x overall consultation growth in five
months.
"While looking for technology providers, we knew we had
something special with Memora Health," said Reza Hosseini Ghomi, MD, MSE, COO and co-founder
of Frontier Psychiatry. "We considered off-the-shelf solutions but
they gave us no clinical context for visits and felt fragmented
from the workflow we needed. The flexibility of Memora Health's
platform and how quickly they were able to get us live has
accelerated our ability to care for patients with the speed and
care they deserve."
In the next phase of implementation any patient seen by Frontier
Psychiatry will use Memora Health's app-less platform to receive
appointment scheduling and reminders, bill payment integration,
satisfaction surveys, remote monitoring, and care plan monitoring
and adherence.
"Prior to our partnership with Frontier Psychiatry, Memora
Health's workflows had been implemented with significant clinical
and operational success across various clinical settings. The
Frontier Psychiatry partnership expands our platform to the
forefront of behavioral health," said Memora Health CEO and
co-founder, Manav Sevak. "Frontier
Psychiatry was uniquely positioned as a strong clinical partner for
Memora Health given their nimbleness and innovative approach to
delivering care--we are excited for our partnership to grow across
the state of Montana."
About Memora Health
Memora Health has helped
over 50 major healthcare organizations meet patients where they are
and make patient care more accessible, actionable, and always-on.
Memora Health's technology platform digitizes and automates complex
care workflows, making them simple for patients and clinicians to
navigate. The Memora team puts patients and care teams at the
center of all product design, learning from their stories to
iteratively improve. Memora Health is headquartered in San Francisco, CA with clients and team
members around the world. For more information about Memora Health
visit memorahealth.com.
About Frontier Psychiatry
Frontier Psychiatry was
established in 2019 as a completely virtual telepsychiatry practice
based in Montana. All appointments
occur online with video conferencing technology. They are on a path
to making psychiatry accessible to all Montanans by 2025. They
provide direct patient care, emergency department services, and
addiction treatment for both adults and children. Learn more at
www.frontier.care.
For more information on Memora Health, please
contact
Naomi Levinthal
at naomi@memorahealth.com
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