par8o expands relationship with WellHealth Quality Care accountable care network
LAS VEGAS – Referral management technology vendor par8o Inc. has announced at HIMSS16 that it has expanded its relationship with WellHealth Quality Care, Nevada's first accountable care network. WellHealth will use the par8o platform to operationalize a patient-centered medical home model for more than 17,000 members of the Teachers Health Trust, a self-funded health trust for all licensed employees of Nevada's Clark County School District, the vendor said.
As an accountable care network, WellHealth partners with payer groups to bring Nevada residents a more efficient healthcare delivery system, WellHealth said. WellHealth provides all medical specialties, from primary care and pediatrics to neurosurgery and obstetrics.
By using par8o's platform, WellHealth's network of physicians benefit from a simplified and streamlined referral workflow, ensuring that patients have access to the right provider at the right time, the vendor said. And by extending the par8o platform to the newly contracted Teachers Health Trust, WellHealth will ensure that more than 120 new primary care offices in the Las Vegas area will be able to use par8o for their patient populations, the vendor added.
"The Teachers Health Trust's mission has always been to provide the best and most efficient medical care to members of the teachers' union and their families, but the trust was struggling to effectively guide its members to high quality, efficient providers," said Keith Boman, MD, chief medical officer at WellHealth Quality Care. "We are excited to welcome the trust into WellHealth Quality Care's accountable care network so that we can better leverage both our relationships and technology, such as our par8o platform."
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Vendor par8o combines technology, workflow analysis and real-time analytics to impact healthcare at the moment of a referral, streamlining workflow between sending and receiving providers and providing real-time analytics to the sending provider, the receiving provider and the organization that has deployed the platform, the vendor explained. By aligning payers, providers and patients, par8o can help reduce the number of patients seeking care outside of a health system, improve the consumer experience and boost health network compliance, the vendor said.
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