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Sharecare Acquires Value-Based Care Platform Visualize Health

by Fred Pennic 02/24/2020 Leave a Comment

Sharecare Acquires Value-Based Care Platform Visualize Health

– Sharecare acquires Visualize Health, a Franklin, Tenn.-based population health and quality measure platform that enables payers and providers to close gaps in patient care to maximize value-based care.

– The acquisition will enhance Sharecare’s capabilities for medical records management and is the 14th acquisition since Sharecare was founded in 2010.  


Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced its acquisition of Visualize Health, a company that supports value-based healthcare and enables payers and providers to close gaps in patient care. The acquisition will enhance Sharecare’s capabilities for medical records management and is the 14th acquisition since Sharecare was founded in 2010.  

Enabling Care Teams With the Right Information at the Right Time to Deliver Proper Care

Visualize Health is a Population Health and Quality Measure Attainment platform showing medical providers what they need to close gaps in patient care and maximize value-based reimbursements. Through MIPS, the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), MACRA, and other payor quality programs, the company’s value-based healthcare management has helped practices save millions and improve the quality of care.

The company integrates with all major electronic medical records (EHRs) and practice management systems to quickly identify incomplete quality measures, gaps in care and deficiencies in documentation. With that, Visualize Health also serves providers recommended actions for each patient, including prescribed care measures across a broad array of conditions such as asthma/COPD, depression, diabetes, and general preventative care and screening. 

By integrating streamlined, insights-based actions into the clinician’s workflow to eliminate care gaps in individual patient journeys, Visualize Health’s cloud-based technology complements Sharecare’s comprehensive health and well-being platform, and ideally positions the digital health company to help payer and provider partners succeed in value-based environments.

“We are driven by our commitment to the quadruple aim and thus have spent the last five years at Visualize Health focused on not only improving the health of populations, reducing unsustainable healthcare spending and enhancing each individual’s healthcare experience but also empowering providers with the tools they need to provide quality care,” said Dr. Kenneth Persaud, CEO of Visualize Health. “By joining Sharecare – from its scale to the breadth and depth of its end-to-end platform – we are poised to provide even more value to providers across the country, while exponentially expanding our reach and ability to innovate.”

Visualize Health Will Advance Sharecare’s Medical Records Management Business Unit

Through previous acquisitions, Sharecare has integrated a range of capabilities and introduced new services to support providers’ workflow – including medical record management; quality, performance and risk-adjustment tools; and billing contract compliance – and demonstrated its ability to grow those revenue streams organically. With Visualize Health, Sharecare is focused on bringing new products to their growing customer base and innovation to its medical records management business.

Visualize Health will operate out of the Sharecare campus in Franklin, Tenn., which the company acquired with its purchase of Healthways in 2016. In addition to the Visualize Health business, Sharecare’s Franklin office also serves as a regional hub for its Health Data Services and Population Health divisions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Why It Matters

“As reimbursement models shift to value-based care, provider groups are facing new and growing pressures to deliver the best possible quality while also adapting to various performance measures, and reporting and documentation standards – all of which greatly  increases provider workload, particularly when they lack the technology to gain visibility in each patient’s full care plan,” said Jeff Arnold, founder, chairman and CEO of Sharecare. “By acquiring Visualize Health, we are poised to help our partners effect meaningful change across their populations by improving care coordination, quality measurement, and the relationship between clinicians and their patients.”

Arnold added, “Just as the market is looking for innovative and nimble patient centric care models that match resources to individual needs, being physician-accepted is a key factor in Sharecare’s continued growth and success. By combining forces with Visualize Health, our vision of health systems becoming Sharecare-enabled – and, ultimately, physicians ‘prescribing’ Sharecare to their patients – is within closer reach than ever before.”

RELATED:   Gaps in Clinical Communication, Document Exchange Lead to Gaps in Care

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