Integrated Health Collaborative Selects Explorys Big Data Analytics Platform

Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) June 30, 2014

Explorys, the leader in big data-driven healthcare transformation, today announced that Integrated Health Collaborative (IHC), a subsidiary of Aultman Health Foundation and an Ohio-based, physician-led, clinically integrated network with a goal of providing higher quality care to patients, has selected Explorys' Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Application Suite, a set of SaaS-based applications that enable rapid population health management, measurement, and engagement to support its clinically integrated network and value-based care initiatives.

"As the healthcare industry transitions from a fee-for-service to a value-based model of care, we founded this clinically integrated network to support and engage physicians, and ensure superior quality across the continuum of care," said Dr. Allison Oprandi, CEO, Integrated Health Collaborative. IHC's goals are to improve quality and efficiency in patient care, promote partnership between hospitals and physicians, build an integrated system of care delivery, and enable success under value-based reimbursement. "We are working with hospitals and practices across the region who are using different health information systems. The only way we can identify and understand our opportunities for improvement and then measure our efforts to improve quality and efficiency is to be able to aggregate and curate each one of our participating organization's data. We found that Explorys, with a truly flexible, robust solution, was the best company to meet our immediate needs and allow us to accomplish our goals."

Explorys' EPM solution suite will support IHC's mission of engaging physicians to deliver high-quality, patient-centered, efficient care. The Explorys platform will enable the clinically integrated network to aggregate and analyze its patient data to improve care quality and outcomes, while reducing healthcare costs.

"One of Explorys' primary objectives is to provide all types of healthcare organizations with the ability to leverage big data to garner the insights that will ultimately improve care quality, efficiency, and costs," said Stephen McHale, CEO, Explorys. "As payment models shift in healthcare, we are seeing more organizations like IHC form, and as such, are seeing an increased demand for our solutions. We are honored that IHC selected us as their big data partner, and look forward to giving this group the insight that they need to improve population health and reduce the per capita cost of care across Ohio."

Inspired by physicians and informatics leaders, Explorys combines the most powerful healthcare-computing platform in the world with turnkey solutions for clinical integration, at-risk population management, cost of care measurement, and pay-for-performance solutions. Explorys' cloud-based platform is serving 20 integrated healthcare systems, 325 hospitals, and over 300,000 providers to identify patterns in diseases, improve treatments, and outcomes.

About Integrated Health Collaborative

Founded in December 2013, Integrated Health Collaborative, LLC (IHC) is a clinically integrated network based out of Canton, Ohio with over 300 physician members. As a subsidiary of Aultman Health Foundation, IHC is partnering with several area hospitals that recognize the importance of proactively preparing for the new value-based payment structures resulting from health care reform. These hospitals include Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio, Aultman Orrville Hospital in Orrville, Ohio and Union Hospital in Dover, Ohio. IHC engages physicians to lead the transformation to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care by focusing on population health management.

About Explorys

Founded in 2009 as an innovation spinoff from Cleveland Clinic, Explorys provides the healthcare industry a secure, cloud-based analytics platform that leverages big data for clinical integration, predictive analytics, risk management and business intelligence. Its platform enables the country's leading provider organizations to more effectively leverage their data to improve care quality, patient satisfaction, and deliver value-based care. The Explorys solution supports Population Health Management and Accountable Care models while applying the power of massively-parallel data processing to save lives and make healthcare affordable. Since its inception, the Explorys platform has been adopted by 20 major integrated healthcare systems with 275 billion data elements, 48 million unique cared-for-lives, 325 hospitals, and 300,000 providers who collectively deliver $61B in care annually. For more information, visit http://www.explorys.com.

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