Atrius Health will use the analytics within EpisodeMetrix to more rigorously explore medical care expenses and care variation around a focused set of high-volume acute episodes of specialty care. The organization originally piloted ArborMetrix’s software in 2013 to analyze clinical and cost variations for six orthopedic and cardiology acute episodes of care.
“Following our pilot program for cardiology and orthopedic specialties, we recognized the potential for ArborMetrix’s episode analytics to be an important complement to the population-based, total medical expense analytics already in use across Atrius Health,” said Joe Kimura, MD, MPH, deputy chief medical officer of Atrius Health.
Atrius Health now uses ArborMetrix software to analyze cost and surgical variations in practice patterns for multiple acute care surgical specialty episodes.
“Atrius Health continues to be a thought leader in accountable care,” said Brett Furst, ArborMetrix CEO, in a news release. “Our early insight suggests that other ACOs will have the same if not even greater opportunities to reduce clinical variation within their own ecosystem.”
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