xG Health, a startup that came out of Geisinger Health System, worked with Epic to make its xG Intelligent Care Management became available in Epic's Healthy Planet software in February of 2017. And now the organizations said they are partnering with hospitals to both provide them with clinical content and to drive quality measures and improve clinical workflows within Healthy Planet.
The company said the latest hospitals to join the work using xG Health’s content, analytics and care management software are UCHealth in Colorado, Catholic Health Services of Long Island, Driscoll Health Plan in Texas, Legacy Health, and Southcoast Health Network.
Deborah Allwes Largoza, vice president of operations at Southcoast in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, said in a statement that it chose xG Intelligent Care Management for its evidence-based clinical content and its ability to meet NCQA/PCMH requirements. Another factor was xG’s native integration into Epic's Healthy Planet population health platform.
Once xG Intelligent Care Management is loaded into Healthy Planet, it becomes embedded in care manager workflows in both Epic’s Hyperspace and the Healthy Planet Link portal, according to the company. Healthy Planet then suggests assessments and best practices based on a patient's clinical condition that clinicians, in turn, can use to suggest goals and tasks for the patient's care plan.
“Evidence-based care management content is essential for the delivery of reliable, high-quality population health services,” xG Health CEO Earl Steinberg, MD, said in a statement. “xG’s EHR-embedded content helps care managers have up-to-date, best clinical practices, to optimize patient outcomes quality scores.”
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