Atlantic Well being System introduced this month that it’s adopting FeelBetter’s know-how for polypharmacy affected person administration. Polypharmacy sufferers are those who use 5 or extra drugs concurrently.
The well being system — which gives care primarily in New Jersey but in addition in elements of New York and Pennsylvania — is now utilizing the startup’s customized treatment administration platform throughout its accountable care organizations (ACOs).
FeelBetter, based mostly in Tel Aviv and Boston, was based in 2018. The startup is designed to handle a rising public well being concern amongst senior 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, the elevated use of well being companies and rising care prices, mentioned FeelBetter CEO Liat Primor.
The U.S. healthcare system’s flawed treatment administration protocols lead to 275,000 deaths and greater than $528 billion in avoidable prices every year, she identified.
“We imagine the time has come to rethink treatment administration,” Primor declared. “We’re leveraging know-how to ship a extra customized, whole-patient method to treatment administration — one which goes past a single sickness, prognosis or time limit and comprehensively focuses on every particular person’s care journey.”
FeelBetter’s platform pinpoints sufferers at excessive threat of decay and preventable hospitalization as a result of suboptimal treatment administration and proactively suggests speedy, actionable interventions to cut back these dangers, she defined. The answer additionally helps clinicians monitor sufferers’ 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 threat of being hospitalized for polypharmacy-related causes, suggest treatment adjustments and monitor particular person care journeys. Atlantic Well being System will deploy the know-how throughout three ACOs serving greater than 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries and greater than 420,000 sufferers with industrial insurance coverage.
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, rapidly cut back the burden of preventable hospitalizations and improve the capability of scientific pharmacists, she famous.
In Primor’s view, FeelBetter’s principal opponents are Arine and Tabula Rasa.
“All our opponents are promoting to well being plans and integrating with claims whereas we’re focusing on suppliers and integrating each the EMR and claims,” she declared.
FeelBetter’s know-how additionally “goes past a single time limit or illness,” Primor added. The startup’s platform encompasses each historic and real-time knowledge to judge the entire affected person and comprehensively convey an individual’s well being journey, she defined.
Along with the Atlantic Well being System information, FeelBetter will likely be saying a couple of extra well being system clients within the coming months, Primor mentioned.
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