Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare has signed a comprehensive agreement with Wellcentive, a value-based care solutions provider, to provide population health management technology throughout the health system.
Adventist HealthCare is a faith-based, nonprofit, integrated healthcare system that includes acute care and specialty hospitals, mental health services and home health agencies serving patients in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
In addition, Adventist manages the Mid-Atlantic Primary Care ACO, one of the largest Medicare Shared Savings Programs serving 14,000 Medicare patients though its physician network of more than 1,000 providers in the metropolitan D.C. area. Adventist physicians also support the One Health Quality Alliance, a physician-led, clinically integrated network of more than 40 physician groups.
Under the partnership agreement, Wellcentive will develop the ability to integrate privacy-sensitive aspects of social determinants of health into patient data, sharable throughout care teams as part of data aggregation and translation. Social determinants of health include housing, literacy, job training and access to transportation and social support networks, socioeconomic levels, exposure to crime and violence, access to media and even cultural norms.
"For our patient population, and really for every patient population in America, understanding the factors that impact health beyond episodic visits is a critical piece of population health management and comprehensive care," said Patrick Garrett, MD, senior vice president of physician strategy at Adventist HealthCare. "We have defined a strategic roadmap to provide high-quality, coordinated care through our physician networks that include the ACO as well as through the physician partnerships in the One Health Quality Alliance. Deploying Wellcentive's data integration solutions will allow us to strengthen our independent physician, acute and post-acute providers' ability to deliver truly coordinated care."
Wellcentive will also integrate Hierarchical Condition Category codes as part of CMS' risk adjustment model for chronic care.