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Turn-Key Health COO Terri Maxwell, Ph.D., APRN, Shares Strategies for Population Health Approaches to Community-Based Advanced Illness ManagementTurn-Key Health, the market leader in end-of-life population health management, announced today that Terri Maxwell, Ph.D., APRN, chief operating officer, will present, "Innovations in Community-Based Advance Illness Care: A Population Health Approach," to hospice and palliative care providers at leading industry forums across the country. Her presentation will feature preliminary findings from a recent pilot project. Maxwell will present at:
The presentations will feature preliminary clinical and financial outcomes from an innovative population health community-based advanced illness management (AIM) program provided to members of a Med Advantage plan. Patients for this program were selected using a proprietary predictive model to identify those with a prognosis of <18 months at risk to receive costly, non-beneficial care at the end of life. As a result of phone and home visits by specially trained nurses and social workers:
Maxwell concludes, "These findings confirm that end-of-life health management solutions are the ideal, common sense antidote to the costly and unnecessary end-of-life care that has been practiced for too long in the U.S. healthcare system." About Turn-Key Health Turn-Key Health, an affiliate of Enclara Pharmacia, is an end-of-life population health management company that aligns payers, community-based palliative care providers, and members through technology and process to solve the problem of poor quality, low satisfaction, and extreme high cost during the last years of life. Turn-Key Health utilizes payer claims data and predictive analytics to populate its mobile acute illness management (AIM) platform, which instructs and guides the community-based palliative care partners on patient assessments, interventions, and real-time risk stratification. The results are improved quality, higher member satisfaction and decreased expense for the member and payer. Visit www.turn-keyhealth.org. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160526005886/en/ |