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Central New York Care Collaborative (CNYCC) Chooses IBM Watson Care Manager to Improve Health Across the RegionORLANDO, Fla. and SYRACUSE, N.Y., Feb. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health and the Central New York Care Collaborative (CNYCC) today announced an agreement to create a cognitive population health platform intended to connect more than 2,000 healthcare and community based providers across six counties in Central New York. The platform will be designed to help improve health for residents across the region, with the goal to reduce costs in the Medicaid system by decreasing the amount of avoidable emergency department visits and hospital readmissions by 25% over the course of the program. The population health platform will integrate IBM Watson Care Manager with broader Watson Health offerings and run on the Watson Health Cloud. The untapped value of insights from health industry data is estimated to be near $300 billion annually.(1) Patient data often resides in multiple siloes, preventing physicians from understanding the full spectrum of health issues that could impact a patient's care and potential risk factors. For example, an endocrinologist may be unaware that her diabetes patient also suffers from depression, which significantly impacts the risk of non-adherence.(2) For CNYCC's Population Health Management (PHM) System, IBM Watson Health will integrate data from a variety of care settings -- primary care, post-acute care, behavioral health, community and acute care – and more than 75 electronic health record systems, health information exchanges, and other data sources. CNYCC's PHM system will aggregate that diverse data and produce holistic patient insights incorporating clinical history, social determinants, and behavioral health. Clinicians can access information about their individual patients from the platform, and opt to connect with a patient to prompt adoption of healthy behaviors relevant to office visits and care management; for example, send a private reminder to pick up a prescription. "Our mission at CNYCC is to improve the health of our community by coordinating services and building partnerships throughout the healthcare system," said Virginia Opipare, CEO, CNYCC. "The ability of our providers to access critical healthcare information through a Watson-powered, cloud-based population health management platform is the optimal foundation for this transformational work. The PHM System will meet our current needs and scale to keep pace with the evolving needs of the patient population we serve. And, because it is a cognitive system, it learns a it goes and will return increasing value to the region over time." "Central New York is leading the way for a national movement toward an effective, scalable patient-centric approach to population health management and value-based care," said Anil Jain, M.D., FACP, VP and Chief Health Informatics Officer, Value-Based Care, IBM Watson Health. "This is about identifying high risk individuals and using Watson-based tools and services to help providers engage with patients to improve health. As the healthcare industry shifts away from fee-for-service to a value-based system, care providers need integrated solutions that help them gain a holistic view of each individual within a population of patients." Watson Care Manager combines care management best practices and automated workflows enabling care managers to create individualized care plans that address all determinants of health and engage individuals for better health. The system brings together the cognitive computing power of Watson with IBM's established expertise in population health management and social program management. In addition to surfacing information about a specific individual, it can also run similarity analytics to help clinicians determine potential risk factors that have been found in "patients like this," drawing on broader health data in the Watson Health Cloud. Importantly, Watson Health's population health platform provides seamless patient engagement, to close the loop from patient insights to engagement and action. Sources About the Central New York Care Collaborative About IBM Watson Health Media Contacts Christine Douglass BJ Adigun To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/central-new-york-care-collaborative-cnycc-chooses-ibm-watson-care-manager-to-improve-health-across-the-region-300409955.html SOURCE IBM |