How AI Is Transforming Clinical Documentation at Intermountain Health
Since implementing AI clinical documentation improvement (CDI) tools, Intermountain has seen a 22% point increase in inpatient chart completion during or immediately after rounds.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs
May has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For instance, Abridge, Highmark Health and Merck named new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Innovaccer, Intermountain Health and Novartis.
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Closing the Quality-Affordability Gap in Workplace Mental Health
In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable.
Intermountain Health CEO: Better Communication Can Help Restore Faith in Nonprofit Hospitals
As public trust in the U.S. healthcare system declines, Intermountain Health CEO Rob Allen thinks that nonprofit hospitals can do a better job showcasing how they reinvest in their communities. He pointed to Intermountain’s work in areas like affordable housing, food access and charity care as examples of nonprofit providers’ often-overlooked value.
Why Intermountain Health Is Investing In AI for Clinical Data Abstraction
Intermountain Health is deploying Layer Health’s AI engine for clinical data abstraction across several of its patient registries. The health system’s venture capital arm is also making a strategic investment in the startup.
MedCity FemFwd: The Link Between Intimate Partner Violence and Health
In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Audrey Jiricko, senior medical director of women’s health at Intermountain Health. She discusses how the organization is screening women for intimate partner violence.
Intermountain Health Exec: Hub-and-Spoke Models Could Save Rural Healthcare
Dan Liljenquist, Intermountain Health’s chief strategy officer, said that more large health systems should employ a hub-and-spoke model to ensure that rural providers can thrive. Under this model, large health systems partner with rural hospitals — with the rural “spoke” hospitals gaining access to the larger “hub” health system’s technology, staff, medication discounts and more.
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Automation Didn’t Dehumanize Care. Bad Systems Did.
We have the opportunity to design systems that give people greater capacity for the work where human presence matters most: listening, understanding, reassuring, deciding, and caring.
One Healthcare AI Application that Intrigues Intermountain Health’s CEO
In a sit-down interview at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference, Allen talked about a tool built by a company backed by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz.
Intermountain Health Sells Its Behavioral Health Risk Model to NeuroFlow
Neuroflow acquired Intermountain Health’s behavioral health risk analytics model to integrate into its software platform. The model identifies which patients may be at risk of experiencing mental health crises so that care teams can step in to provide timely support.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs
December saw a slew of executive hires, promotions, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For example, companies like Humana and Mayo Clinic hired new C-suite leaders, organizations including Atlantic Health System and Amwell are saying goodbye to key executives, and firms like CVS Health and Optum announced rounds of job cuts.
What Intermountain Health Hopes to Achieve with its New Behavioral Health Partnership
The Salt Lake City health system will pilot NeuroFlow's behavioral health tech platform and services in five primary care locations in Colorado. The first step is to integrate technology into its Epic EHR but the broader goal is to create the mechanism by which behavioral healthcare can be standardized and measured.
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From Blind Spots to Better Outcomes: How SNF Data Transparency Strengthens LTSS
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
What Does It Take to Move an Entire Hospital in 1 Day? Intermountain Health Is About to Find Out
For the past two years, Intermountain Health has been planning to move its hospital in the Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge, Colorado about three and a half miles away to a new and updated facility. The health system is planning to complete the move in one day, using about 20 ambulances to move an estimated 180 patients.
Intermountain Health CISO: The Industry Needs Better Transparency After Cyberattacks
After a healthcare cyberattack, the impacted organization often doesn't want to divulge a lot of information, Intermountain Health CISO Erik Decker said last week at HIMSS. However, he thinks healthcare organizations should be more transparent with their peers after an attack because "no one system operates independent of everybody else."
Intermountain CEO: You Don’t Have To Be a Payvider to Reach Scale in VBC
The advancement of value-based care cannot and should not exist solely in a payvider model, Intermountain Health CEO Rob Allen argued in an interview last week. Having its own health plan made things “a little easier” when Intermountain began getting serious about at-risk contracts, but achieving success in value-based care “is more about your commitment to the approach" and forging strong relationships with payers of all types.
Health Systems Will Seek More Cross-Market Mergers, But Many Will Fail
Last week, New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Midwest-based UnityPoint Health signed a letter of intent to merge. One consultant thinks these kinds of announcements will continue in the coming years, but a significant chunk of these intended mergers will end up being called off due to health systems realizing they’re not ready to make the sacrifices needed to reap the benefits of a megamerger.
Intermountain Health Teams Up with Qualtrics to Optimize Patient Feedback Loop
Intermountain Health recently struck a partnership with experience management company Qualtrics. The Salt Lake City-based health system is implementing Qualtrics’ platform across all its facilities to optimize research around the customer and employee experience.