BOSTON,
Feb. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --
PatientPing, the nation's most comprehensive care coordination
platform, today announced that it has teamed up with
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), one of the
nation's leading health and well-being companies, on a new care
coordination focus for Humana Medicare Advantage members in
North Carolina.
Humana provides support to physicians and healthcare
professionals through a range of clinical capabilities, including
in-home care, behavioral health and pharmacy services as well as
data analytics and wellness solutions.
The innovative relationship seeks to improve member
experience for Humana's North Carolina Medicare Advantage
membership by enhancing care coordination among providers on
PatientPing's platform. Through these efforts, Humana aims to
reduce emergency department visits, preventable admissions and
readmissions, and improve connectivity to community-based providers
post-discharge.
"We're excited to partner with Humana and to expand access
to our platform in North
Carolina," said Jay Desai,
CEO of PatientPing. "Our mission is to connect providers to
seamlessly coordinate patient care. The regional infrastructure
enables providers at health systems and health plans to collaborate
with the goal of improving quality and reducing total cost of care.
North Carolina is at the leading
edge of value-based care innovation and we're excited for Humana to
use PatientPing's platform to help accelerate value-based care
initiatives in the state."
"We're pleased to work with PatientPing to enhance and
strengthen Humana's care coordination programs for our members
across North Carolina," said
Neil Steffens, Mid-Atlantic Medicare
President at Humana. "We believe this platform will foster better
provider engagement, and PatientPing's insights into their care
will help us improve medical outcomes."
Humana will have access to PatientPing's provider
enablement platform to monitor acute and post-acute events in real
time. In addition, Humana plans to offer PatientPing's platform to
many network providers with the goal of improving care
coordination, and reducing total cost of care for Humana members.
The platform uses real-time notifications (Pings) to activate
the member's extended care team who utilize PatientPing and
provides contextual information (Stories) to point-of-care
providers, which includes certain utilization indicators to help
coordinate transitions.
"The key to success in value-based care is close
collaboration between payers and providers," said Sagnik
Bhattacharya, Head of Payer & Provider Strategy at PatientPing.
"PatientPing's goal is to eliminate barriers in information
exchange and improve communication across providers and health
plans in service of a better member experience. Humana is a leader
in the transition from volume to value and will be a great partner
for PatientPing as we continue to deliver the next generation
payer-provider collaboration platform."
About PatientPing
PatientPing is a Boston-based care coordination platform that
reduces the cost of healthcare by seamlessly connecting providers
and health plans to coordinate patient care. The platform enables
collaboration on shared patients through Pings–real-time
notifications when patients receive care–and Stories–important
patient context at the point of care–and allows provider
organizations, health plans, governments, individuals and the
organizations supporting them to leverage this real-time data to
reach their shared goals of improving the efficiency of our
healthcare system. For more information, please visit
www.patientping.com.
About Humana
Humana Inc. is committed to helping our millions of medical
and specialty members achieve their best health. Our successful
history in care delivery and health plan administration is helping
us create a new kind of integrated care with the power to improve
health and well-being and lower costs. Our efforts are leading to a
better quality of life for people with Medicare, families,
individuals, military service personnel, and communities at
large.
To accomplish that, we support physicians and other health
care professionals as they work to deliver the right care in the
right place for their patients, our members. Our range of clinical
capabilities, resources and tools – such as in-home care,
behavioral health, pharmacy services, data analytics and wellness
solutions – combine to produce a simplified experience that makes
health care easier to navigate and more effective.
More information regarding Humana is available to
investors via the Investor Relations page of the company's web site
at www.humana.com, including copies of:
- Annual reports to stockholders
- Securities and Exchange Commission filings
- Most recent investor conference presentations
- Quarterly earnings news releases and conference
calls
- Calendar of events
- Corporate Governance information
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