What You Should Know:
– Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare AI company, and Longitude Rx, the specialty pharmacy company built by and for health systems, have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate specialty pharmacy innovation and improve patient outcomes.
– The collaboration addresses the significant complexity inherent in specialty pharmacy, which includes challenges across prior authorization, 340B compliance, and patient engagement.
– Through the partnership, Longitude Rx will deploy Innovaccer’s Gravity Platform to unify fragmented data across EMRs, payers, and pharmacies, creating a single source of truth from over 400 connected data sources.
The Three Pillars of Specialty Pharmacy Transformation
By leveraging the Gravity Platform, Longitude Rx will enable health systems to drive value across clinical, operational, and financial dimensions:
- Financial & Operational Growth:
- Capture more prescriptions by surfacing specialty orders in real time.
- Automate reimbursement workflows and strengthen 340B compliance.
- Streamline specialty pharmacy operations and expand payer and manufacturer partnerships.
- Improved Clinical Outcomes:
- Equip pharmacists and care teams with timely insights to proactively support patients on complex therapies.
- Improve patient access to life-saving medications.
- Enhanced Efficiency: Gravity, through its Flow Auth tool, already powers automated prior authorization, which reduces administrative delays and helps patients receive care faster.
AI-Enabled Intelligence to Cut Through Complexity
The need for this technology is urgent, as specialty drugs now account for more than half of U.S. drug spending. Health systems are actively seeking solutions to capture lost prescriptions and maximize 340B savings.
Next-Generation Specialty Care
The companies plan to extend their collaboration into advanced areas, including:
- Advanced AI-driven insights.
- Payer-provider collaboration models.
- Next-generation patient engagement tools that will define the future of specialty care.
Abhinav Shashank, cofounder and CEO at Innovaccer, summarized the joint mission: “With Gravity, Longitude Rx can cut through that complexity by unifying data and automating workflows. The result is simpler operations, stronger performance, and most importantly, better access for patients to the medications they need.”
