Intermountain Health, Story Health expanding virtual heart failure management program
Fierce Healthcare August 22, 2024
Intermountain Health is taking its partnership with digital specialty care platform Story Health systemwide following a strong heart failure pilot program the pair launched early last year.
That implementation enrolled dozens of Intermountain patients with new heart failure diagnosis into the startup’s model of virtual coaching, biometric monitoring and care team alerts.
The system was rewarded with improved medication optimization, condition recovery among some patients within a brief four-month period and subsequent cost savings. Though the program has “grown considerably” across recent months, the health system said it’s now looking to expand on that success for “hundreds of patients” across five different sites.
“Intermountain’s wide reach and diversity of care settings provides the perfect test case to show that, when...