The partnership supports Intermountain Health's goals to improve
patient outcomes by proactively identifying underlying and
co-occurring behavioral health needs to improve the effectiveness
of care coordination for primary care patients in Colorado
PHILADELPHIA, July 18,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Intermountain Health, a
nonprofit health system in the Western U.S., is partnering with
NeuroFlow, the industry leader in behavioral health technology and
analytics, to identify and triage behavioral health risk within
Intermountain's primary care population and improve efficiency of
their integrated care programs.
It is well known that people with co-occurring physical and
behavioral health conditions typically have higher medical costs.
To improve patient outcomes, healthcare organizations must include
and address behavioral health. However, doing so effectively,
proactively, and at scale is challenging and resource intensive.
These barriers led Intermountain to partner with NeuroFlow, whose
technology and analytics infrastructure is designed for
enterprise-level scale and efficiency. The health system will
leverage NeuroFlow's Integrated Care solution to support
populations in Colorado where
there is a concentration of patients who will benefit from the
technology.
"In order to have the best outcomes for patients with behavioral
health needs, we need an effective and seamless tool to
systematically understand the acuity and complexity of their
conditions in order to provide the most effective treatments and
support. NeuroFlow can help our primary care providers accomplish
this critical task at scale, while removing unnecessary
administrative burden," said Tammer
Attallah, MBA, LCSW, Intermountain Health Behavioral Health
Clinical Program Executive Director.
NeuroFlow will integrate behavioral health analytics into care
workflows and engage patients with relevant digital behavioral
health resources and high-touch interventions. In addition to
population-wide behavioral health identification and support,
NeuroFlow will provide suicide prevention services to Intermountain
Health patients and provide outreach from trained crisis
professionals.
"Capturing accurate behavioral health data at scale can be
incredibly challenging, particularly when organizations rely on
in-person screenings alone," says Jeremy
Kreyling, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Informatics at
NeuroFlow. "We built this platform to engage patients through a
variety of digital touchpoints and leverage sophisticated AI
analysis to understand acuity in real time. Having actionable
population insights unlocks new opportunities for organizations
like Intermountain to increase enrollment and engagement in
integrated care programs, with an added layer of outreach for
patients experiencing suicide ideation."
NeuroFlow's core competencies – upstream behavioral health risk
identification, suicide prevention, and expertise in clinical
integration – increase access to care by overcoming systemic
challenges in healthcare ecosystems and provide organizations like
Intermountain a way to supercharge their existing, proven programs.
With a deep understanding of population behavioral health needs,
Intermountain can more effectively triage populations in need and
deliver care as efficiently as possible.
"In order to address today's massive demand for behavioral
health services, it's critical that healthcare organizations work
smarter," says Dr. Tom Zaubler,
Chief Medical Officer at NeuroFlow, "Leveraging technology to
surface often hidden behavioral health risk and address it early is
essential to lessening the burden on providers, improving patient
outcomes, and ultimately lowering the total cost of care."
About Intermountain Health
Headquartered in Utah with
locations in seven states and additional operations across the
western U.S., Intermountain Health is a nonprofit system of 33
hospitals, 385 clinics, medical groups with some 3,900 employed
physicians and advanced care providers, a health plans division
called Select Health with more than one million members, and other
health services. Helping people live the healthiest lives possible,
Intermountain is committed to improving community health and is
widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare by using
evidence-based best practices to consistently deliver high-quality
outcomes at sustainable costs.
About NeuroFlow
NeuroFlow helps risk-bearing healthcare organizations improve
outcomes and cost of care in medically complex populations by
surfacing and supporting behavioral health needs that typically go
undetected and under-addressed. Across payors, providers, and the
federal government, NeuroFlow's scalable technology and analytics
capabilities empower organizations with the behavioral health
insights they're missing to manage these populations in a
financially sustainable way. Powered by deep expertise in
whole-person care, NeuroFlow offers a path to risk predictability
and proactive care that helps overcome the systemic challenges in
today's healthcare ecosystem.
Media Contact
Sara Cohen, NeuroFlow, 1
610-420-1724, saracohen@neuroflow.com, neuroflow.com
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