Comprehensive 3M grouping methodology will be leveraged in Cerner’s
HealtheIntent
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
3M Health Information Systems today announced an agreement with Cerner,
a global leader in health care technology, to use 3M Patient-focused
Episodes Software with Cerner’s HealtheIntent℠ population health
management platform. Providers will be able to view the landscape of a
patient’s documented conditions to help define an episode of care, while
analyzing costs and expected resource use.
The conventional approach to defining an episode is to focus on the
services related to a single disease rather than the patient as a whole. HealtheIntent
will be enhanced to take a patient-centric episode approach, by
using a measure for payment and quality that represents the treatment a
patient experienced across care settings.
“Cerner continues to advance the industry with innovations in population
health management. The 3M software further expands the breadth of our
population health management offerings to give our clients solutions and
content they can use to more effectively manage health and care as well
as costs,” said Dr. Bharat Sutariya, vice president and CMO, population
health, Cerner.
3M Patient-focused Episodes Software defines over 500 episodes of
patient care spanning inpatient and outpatient encounters as well as
chronic and acute diseases. It accounts for patients with multiple
conditions and complex health histories, and produces clinically
meaningful, risk-adjusted episodes for opportunity and intervention
analysis.
“An episode-based payment system that is designed around the patient is
the next logical step in the evolution of health care payment systems,”
said JaeLynn Williams, president, 3M Health Information Systems. “By
creating a defined time period, individual clinicians work as a unified
team toward a single, clearly stated goal—to carry each patient across
the episode finish line as efficiently and excellently as possible.”
HealtheIntent’s enterprise data warehouse, HealtheEDW℠,
will support bundled payments, compare provider costs and provide
classification such as diagnosis-related group (DRGs), a concept widely
accepted by health care professionals. Providers will receive a
comprehensive view and information to support evaluating the
effectiveness of care, predicting costs and refining patient treatment
processes to improve outcomes.
3M methodologies are used throughout health care for quality outcomes
measurement, risk analysis, and population health management. State
Medicaid agencies, hospital associations and payer-provider
collaboratives in more than 30 U.S. states rely on 3M methodologies for
comparative reporting of hospital quality and as the basis for designing
new value-based health care payment models.
Visit 3M Health Information Systems online for more information about 3M
Patient-focused Episodes Software or call 800-367-2447.
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HealtheIntent and HealtheEDW are service marks of Cerner.
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