What You Should Know:
- FeelBetter, the leading provider of polypharmacy patient management technology and pioneer of Pharmaco-Clinical Intelligence, today announced a commercial partnership with Atlantic Health System (“Atlantic Health”).
- The not-for-profit health system, which provides care for more than half the state of New Jersey and parts of New York and Pennsylvania, is leveraging FeelBetter’s AI-based precision population health platform to optimize and personalize medication management for polypharmacy patients across Atlantic Health System aligned Accountable Care Organizations (ACO).
Atlantic Health System and FeelBetter Forge Strategic Partnership to Tackle Polypharmacy Challenges
The collaboration will commence with an initial emphasis on leveraging FeelBetter’s Pharmco-Clinical Intelligence to identify patients at high risk of imminent hospitalization due to polypharmacy issues, defined as the concurrent use of five or more medications. It will propose alterations to medication regimens and other necessary clinical interventions, while also overseeing care trajectories at both individual and population health levels. The deployment of FeelBetter’s platform is scheduled for 2024 to facilitate the management of polypharmacy for patients across Atlantic Health’s three Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which cater to a collective of over 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries and more than 420,000 commercially attributed beneficiaries.
Polypharmacy, a growing public health concern among elderly patients, many of whom contend with multiple chronic conditions, heightens the risk of adverse health outcomes, escalates healthcare utilization, and inflates care expenditures. In the United States alone, suboptimal medication management contributes to 275,000 deaths annually and incurs more than $528 billion in avoidable costs.
Atlantic Health System stands as a pioneer in healthcare, establishing benchmarks for quality healthcare delivery in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the New York metropolitan area. Fueled by a workforce of 20,000 team members and 5,440 affiliated physicians devoted to fostering healthier communities, Atlantic Health System caters to over half of New Jersey’s population, encompassing 14 counties and serving 7.5 million individuals.
“At Atlantic Health System, adopting new AI-based technologies with the potential to enhance healthcare is part of our unwavering commitment to providing high quality, safe, affordable patient care,” said Dr. Thomas Kloos, President, Vice President, Atlantic Health System and President, Atlantic Accountable Care Organization. “In partnering with FeelBetter, we’re taking another step forward in fulfilling our mission. Tackling the tremendous challenges associated with polypharmacy, where patients take multiple medications for multiple chronic diseases and conditions, is critical to improving health outcomes and quality of life, controlling costs, and keeping our senior patients healthy in their homes across our communities for as long as possible.”
