Kyruus,
Inc., a leading healthcare Big Data company and provider of patient
access and referral optimization solutions, today announced a business
development partnership with athenahealth,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic
health record (EHR),
practice
management and care
coordination, as part of their “More Disruption Please” (MDP)
program. Kyruus will collaborate with athenahealth’s growing network of
about 44,000 providers to optimize the matching of patients with
specialist providers. The solution enables provider organizations to
maximize the productivity of their physician staffs while reducing
patient wait times and referral outmigration.
“Joining athenahealth’s MDP Marketplace is an incredibly exciting step
for us,” said Graham Gardner, Co-Founder and CEO of Kyruus. “We have
seen tremendous interest from health systems for our patient access
solution. Partnering with athenahealth will enable us to more
efficiently role out our platform to each of their clients.”
athenahealth launched the MDP
Marketplace in 2013 as an innovation and partnership program aimed
at linking the scalability of the cloud with innovation in healthcare
for the overall advancement in the way patient care is coordinated,
delivered and reimbursed. MDP targets innovators, entrepreneurs,
companies, investors, and individuals that introduce new services and
accelerate the introduction of high-value innovation via the cloud. The
relationship with Kyruus will specifically enable tighter data and
technology integration between the two companies in order to deliver a
seamless experience around patient access and scheduling.
“At athenahealth, our mission is to make health care work as it should,
and to do that, we need to partner with the best and brightest
technology solutions that will help providers move the needle on
improved business and clinical outcomes” said Kyle Armbrester, VP
Business Development and head of MDP. “We firmly believe that companies
like Kyruus, which leverage Big Data and innovative solutions, are best
equipped to improve patient access, streamline appointment scheduling,
and enhance the overall coordination of care.”
About Kyruus ProviderMatch™
Kyruus ProviderMatchTM is
a web-based referral triage system that helps health systems, referring
physicians and scheduling administrators find and connect patients with
clinically appropriate, in-network, and available specialists, such that
physician productivity is maximized, and patient and physician
satisfaction are achieved. By combining a data-driven specialist search
engine alongside integrated electronic scheduling and business
intelligence dashboards, ProviderMatchTM enables
hospitals and health systems to optimize physician capacity, reduce
appointment wait-times and patient outmigration, while improving
coordination of care.
About Kyruus
Kyruus is a leading healthcare solutions
company that helps hospitals and health systems optimize the performance
of their physician networks. Using a Big Data approach, the company
enables the integration of massive amounts of information about
physicians so that organizations can understand and engage physician
expertise across the care continuum. For more information, please visit www.kyruus.com.
About athenahealth, Inc.
athenahealth is a leading provider
of cloud-based services for EHR, practice management, and care
coordination. athenahealth’s mission is to be caregivers’ most trusted
service, helping them do well doing the right thing. For more
information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
or call 888-652-8200.
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