CHRISTUS Health, an international, Catholic, not-for-profit health system has announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Wellcentive, which will now deliver solutions and services for value-based care and population health management (PHM) across the majority of its U.S. operations. One of the 10 largest Catholic Health systems in the U.S.
CHRISTUS Health initially contracted with Wellcentive in 2014 to manage risk for its newly launched health plan, enable participation in Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) initiatives and drive clinical integration throughout three major markets in Texas and New Mexico. With the expanded agreement, Wellcentive will roll out its solutions and services to 10 hospitals across three additional CHRISTUS Health markets in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Wellcentive’s solutions and services play a key role in CHRISTUS Health’s efforts to take on the risk of managing patients in the primary care environment and collaborating across the continuum of care. With the Wellcentive solution, CHRISTUS Health is aligning physicians, hospitals and other practice sites in a consistent strategy for value-based care. The solution helps establish and standardize best practices for how care will be managed to continuously improve clinical and financial outcomes.
Wellcentive’s solution aggregates data across a variety of inpatient and ambulatory EHRs, CHRISTUS Health’s interoperability infrastructure and other systems. It applies analytic and workflow solutions to this data to enable the health system to track, report and improve performance on a broad spectrum of clinical quality measures. The solution then delivers care management and population outreach capabilities to create a flexible framework for community and individual care plans.
“There are major changes ahead for the healthcare industry,” observed George Conklin, senior vice president and CIO, CHRISTUS Health. “Enabling technologies that provide for effective care management across our communities will be critical to our success in providing high quality care to the people we serve. Wellcentive provides our clinicians with the tools necessary to manage care across the continuum for chronically ill patients who require close monitoring and support in order to reduce exacerbation of illness and improve their quality of life. This is significant to CHRISTUS in continuing to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.”
