Healthcare Innovation August 28, 2019
Iowa-based population health effort includes iPad screening tool, community health workers
The MercyOne ACO is a statewide organization comprised of more than 2,300 doctors and 500 practice sites organized into regional ACOs and clinically integrated networks in Iowa. Its analytics and population health service organization is moving “upstream,” as its work has shifted from just looking at claims and EHR data to help predict individual patient risk to a broader view of the patient experience, including social determinants.
In an Aug. 27 webinar hosted by David Nace, M.D., chief medical officer of health data insights platform vendor Innovacer, MercyOne ACO executives described their efforts to engage patients in discussions about food, transportation, and housing issues and the addition of community...