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Ultimately, the goal is to develop new tools to help clinicians intervene earlier with different types of heart failure patients to reduce emergency department visits.\u201cWe look forward to collaborating with Verily to enhance the patient experience, and reduce the overall cost of care by keeping our patients healthy in their communities rather than in the hospital,\u201d said Steve Strongwater, MD, president and CEO of Atrius Health, in a written statement. \u201cThis initiative will enable us to dive deep into the underlying challenges faced by our patients with heart failure and to deploy new tools and interventions that provide them the right care when they need it.\u201dAccording to Verily, the vendor \u201cdevelops tools and devices to collect, organize and activate health data, and creates interventions to prevent and manage disease.\u201dJoe Kimura, MD, chief medical officer at Atrius Health, contends that the partnership with Verily is the latest population health management effort by the healthcare organization to \u201cuse data more aggressively\u201d for the restratification of patients by leveraging analytics.\u201cIn the complexity of congestive heart failure management, you need to look at a lot of different inputs to try to figure out how you can help the patient by getting the right triggers at the right time,\u201d says Kimura. \u201cIt\u2019s beyond just clinical data, but triggering data like ADT feeds that are really key.\u201dKimura notes that Atrius Health decided to focus on heart failure patients \u201cin the interests of not boiling the ocean\u201d and because the healthcare organization has population health and clinical expertise in that area of patient care.\u201cWe ourselves already have internally built a lot of risk prediction algorithms,\u201d Kimura adds. \u201cKeeping patients healthy so they don\u2019t need to go to the emergency department or hospital\u2014that\u2019s the prime directive. Analytics drives a lot of that and the better the analytics are the more effective we\u2019re going to be in that space.\u201dHe provides the analogy of a massive air traffic control system in which clinicians are \u201ctrying to match the right situation for the right patient with the right set of interventions.\u201d","saveContent":"Atrius Health, New England\u2019s largest independent medical group, has partnered with Alphabet\u2019s life sciences division Verily to better treat heart failure patients and reduce their risk of hospitalization.Working together, the two organizations will analyze Atrius Health\u2019s population health data to discover clinical drivers of hospitalizations among these patients.

Ultimately, the goal is to develop new tools to help clinicians intervene earlier with different types of heart failure patients to reduce emergency department visits.\u201cWe look forward to collaborating with Verily to enhance the patient experience, and reduce the overall cost of care by keeping our patients healthy in their communities rather than in the hospital,\u201d said Steve Strongwater, MD, president and CEO of Atrius Health, in a written statement. \u201cThis initiative will enable us to dive deep into the underlying challenges faced by our patients with heart failure and to deploy new tools and interventions that provide them the right care when they need it.\u201dAccording to Verily, the vendor \u201cdevelops tools and devices to collect, organize and activate health data, and creates interventions to prevent and manage disease.\u201dJoe Kimura, MD, chief medical officer at Atrius Health, contends that the partnership with Verily is the latest population health management effort by the healthcare organization to \u201cuse data more aggressively\u201d for the restratification of patients by leveraging analytics.\u201cIn the complexity of congestive heart failure management, you need to look at a lot of different inputs to try to figure out how you can help the patient by getting the right triggers at the right time,\u201d says Kimura. \u201cIt\u2019s beyond just clinical data, but triggering data like ADT feeds that are really key.\u201dKimura notes that Atrius Health decided to focus on heart failure patients \u201cin the interests of not boiling the ocean\u201d and because the healthcare organization has population health and clinical expertise in that area of patient care.\u201cWe ourselves already have internally built a lot of risk prediction algorithms,\u201d Kimura adds. \u201cKeeping patients healthy so they don\u2019t need to go to the emergency department or hospital\u2014that\u2019s the prime directive. Analytics drives a lot of that and the better the analytics are the more effective we\u2019re going to be in that space.\u201dHe provides the analogy of a massive air traffic control system in which clinicians are \u201ctrying to match the right situation for the right patient with the right set of interventions.\u201d","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

Atrius Health, Verily team to better treat heart failure patients

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