Banner Health’s big bet on population health
Becker's Healthcare September 9, 2022
Phoenix-based Banner Health is making a big bet on population health as it aims to use data to improve patient outcomes and cut costs.
The health system has partnered with health cloud company Innovaccer to improve its data analytics and care coordination capabilities. It’s been helping identify care gaps among patients from its value-based care division, which includes about 1.4 million patients from Arizona and Colorado, Banner Health officials told Becker’s.
“It’s saying to the providers, ‘Hey, it looks like Jen hasn’t had her annual mammogram. The last one she did was back in 2019. You need to talk to her about it,'” said Jen Brooks, vice president of population health, value-based care and the administrative services organization at Banner...