Optum has launched Optum One, a health intelligence platform that brings
knowledge drawn from hundreds of millions of patient encounters directly
to the fingertips of health care providers.
Optum One enables health care providers to analyze data extracted from
their electronic medical record (EMR) systems and enriched by claims
data and take action on those insights, using intuitive applications
connected through a single platform. Advanced predictive models identify
gaps in care, help users coordinate care, and compare the real-world
efficacy and associated cost of possible treatments.
Optum One comes at a key moment in health care when provider
reimbursements are increasingly determined by the quality and value of
the care they provide overall instead of the volume of individual
services they perform. This shift is borne from nationwide efforts to
align incentives to achieve the goals of enhanced patient satisfaction,
improved population health and reduced health costs.
While many health care providers have been quick to embrace the promise
of value-based care delivery and payment models, most cite the need for
better access to health intelligence and workflow applications,
according to a recent study from Optum and Harris Interactive. The
survey found that the majority of hospital leaders and physicians are
not ready to bear either the clinical responsibility or financial risks
that go with value-based payment designs. The survey also found that
care providers expect that transitioning to value-based payment will
require changes in business systems and clinical operations, new
technology, training, data and analytics.
“Optum One enables physicians and hospitals to deliver greater value by
serving as a single platform that provides insights into patients’
health and tools to act on those insights,” said Bill Miller, CEO of
OptumInsight.
Optum One supports care providers with a series of knowledge and action
applications that meet a full range of provider needs, including
population and risk analytics, patient engagement and care coordination.
Optum One features:
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an integrated analytics platform that is purposefully built for the
health care provider market, with the industry’s most accurate and
integrated data;
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a database that includes clinical information on nearly 40 million
treated patients as well as 20 years of claims data; monthly, it
processes 700 million clinical notes, 3.1 billion lab results and more
than 1 billion procedures, diagnoses and prescriptions;
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the ability to deliver analytics insights at the point of care,
especially valuable for those “morning huddles” when the opportunity
to improve health and lower cost is greatest;
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modular apps that are seamlessly integrated into one platform;
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effective, risk-driven, cross-continuum care management; and
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the ability to facilitate true patient-centric, longitudinal
population management that supports value based payment.
The Optum One platform and applications are designed to deliver
knowledge and enable targeted patient intervention. While they work
seamlessly together, they are modular so that health care providers can
utilize the applications they need as they move from fee-for-service to
fee-for-value.
“Optum has assisted us with data collection and analytics for a
readmission project with the goal of decreasing pneumonia-related
readmissions,” said Tim Hobbs, chief physician executive of Community
Health Network in Indianapolis. “We have invested in the new intelligent
health platform, Optum One, which will enable us to connect disparate
information critical to the delivery of efficient care, to help us
achieve success as we take on greater risk and further evolve from
fee-for-service to fee-for-value organization.”
About Optum
Optum is a leading information and technology-enabled health services
business dedicated to helping make the health system work better for
everyone. With more than 50,000 people worldwide, Optum delivers
intelligent, integrated solutions that help to modernize the health
system and improve overall population health. Optum is part of the
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH).
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