Emory, Stratus strike strategic partnership to improve healthcare delivery

Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare and Tifton, Ga.-based Stratus Healthcare are partnering to improve healthcare delivery through four key avenues: clinically integrated network development, provider relationships, outpatient scheduling and EMR coordination.

Stratus Healthcare is an alliance of 21 hospitals and roughly 1,500 physicians formed in 2013. Its partnership with Emory means the health system will become a member of the alliance. Members of Stratus are formal partners that exchange best practices, pool resources, develop coordinated information systems to help reduce costs and enhance population health.

"Our focus in establishing this innovative partnership is to build strong institution-to-institution affiliations with hospitals and physicians across Georgia. Stratus Healthcare is one of the largest and most successful collaborative healthcare partnerships in the United States. We look forward to strengthening this well-established network with access to Emory's highly specialized tertiary and quaternary services in order to benefit an even greater number of Georgians with complex healthcare needs," Jonathan Lewin, MD, CEO of Emory Healthcare and executive vice president of health affairs at Emory University, said in a statement.

Emory and Stratus also plan to improve telemedicine services and continuing medical education offerings.

 

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