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.
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.
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
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."
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.
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 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.
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