Mission Health Partners, an Asheville, N.C.-based ACO, has partnered with Forecast Health to identify high-risk patients.
Forecast Health, a health IT company focused on predictive analytics, uses clinical, claims and socioeconomic data to identify patients at risk for adverse events like readmissions or postoperative complications.
Forecast Health also determines which patients will respond best to certain interventions, so that Mission Health Partners can target its resources with patient-specific guidance.
"We need to go beyond just predicting risk," said Rob Fields, MD, medical director at Mission Health Partners. "By allowing us to target resources with unprecedented precision, this will ultimately improve the outcomes for everyone we serve."