The Sacramento County Department of Health Services announced Tuesday that it will use Innovaccer’s population health analytics to improve care coordination, delivery and access to critical programs for Medi-Cal and justice-involved populations.
WHY IT MATTERS
Sacramento County aims to enhance care coordination and improve quality for Medi-Cal beneficiaries in alignment with a multiyear California Department of Health Care Services initiative by using the company’s government health artificial intelligence and data analytics platform to centralize data, the company said.
According to Tim Lutz, the county’s health director, leveraging Innovaccer’s data analytics to create a new health information exchange significantly enhances the agency’s mission to foster public health.
“By integrating data in real time, we can enhance care coordination, streamline services and ensure individuals have better access to the resources they need to recover, stay healthy and build resilience,” he said.
THE LARGER TREND
By combining diverse data sets with AI and machine learning, public health agencies can gain new population health insights, predict illness and boost health equity.
“AI, machine learning and other related technologies enable providers and researchers to obtain a wider breadth of insights in a dramatically shorter time frame than traditional data extraction, capture and analysis methods,” Brett Furst, president of HHS Technology Group, told Healthcare IT News.
Baptist Health South Florida, which operates a network of 11 hospitals across four counties, tapped Innovaccer, Oracle and Salesforce to drive population health goals and improve its ability to implement targeted interventions and preventive care strategies.
“Without a unified data platform, we struggled to identify high-risk patients, track care gaps and coordinate care effectively across our network of providers,” Milady Cervera, the health system’s vice president of population health and physician integrated networks, said in July.
“Innovaccer informs the nurses and providers as to the most at-risk patients and those to target for interventions, including identifying gaps at the point of care, ensuring timely closure,” she noted.
ON THE RECORD
“By pioneering the integration of health and social services data, Sacramento County is breaking down barriers and building a future where care is truly holistic for those who need it the most,” Abhinav Shashank, cofounder and CEO of Innovaccer, said in a statement. “This collaboration demonstrates how integrated data systems can break down silos, improve outcomes and create a more efficient and connected healthcare ecosystem.”
Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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