Lahey Health Selects Phytel for Population Health Management to Help Drive Patient-Physician Partnerships and Accountable Care

DALLAS, April 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Phytel announced today that Lahey Health has selected the company's comprehensive, Web-based population health and population engagement platform to help keep patients healthy, minimize expense and drive better outcomes.

Phytel's technology is used by hundreds of large physician groups and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) across the U.S. to enable timely provider-led interventions that ensure patients get the care they need when they need it. Lahey Health launched the Lahey Clinical Performance ACO in 2013 to deliver seamless, high-quality care for Medicare beneficiaries. 

"For an ACO to succeed, it must be able to stratify populations to identify the risk levels of patients, develop care plans to drive improved outcomes, and automate appropriate patient communication so care teams can engage patients in a timely manner," said Gregory Bazylewicz, M.D., Chief Network Development Officer for Lahey Health. "In this new era of value-based care, Phytel will help us continue to be a patient-centered organization where the patient and providers are true partners in care decisions." 

Lahey Health comprises nationally-recognized, award-winning hospitals—including an academic hospital and medical center, and community hospitals—nearly 1,000 locally based physicians, behavioral health services, post-acute programs such as home health services, skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, and senior care resources located throughout northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.

"We are honored that Lahey Health, one of the nation's most prestigious health systems, has selected Phytel to help its providers adjust to the changing requirements of value-based care," said Steve Schelhammer, CEO of Phytel. "We look forward to working with them to scale their care management program and enhance their ability to deliver patient-centered care that drives better health outcomes."

Lahey Health selected Phytel based on the company's track record of success and its ability to integrate the data of multiple applications from different vendors. While the solution will be rolled out initially to physicians employed by Lahey Health, the organization expects to eventually offer it, additionally, to affiliated physicians who use a wide variety of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management systems.

Analytics, Workflow, Communication, Reporting
Lahey Health will use the Phytel platform to identify patients with gaps in recommended care, empower care managers with automated tools, and engage patients in their care - improving quality and health outcomes.

The full Phytel platform delivers scalable population health management through a four-pronged approach:

• Analytics that aggregate data and stratify populations across EHR and other enterprise systems, and then compares records with evidence-based care guidelines to identify the top health risks for individual patients.
• Workflow that enables care coordination between manual and automated activities. Care managers receive key tools for population health management including EHR-enabled care plans, decision support, user-configurable workflows, and personalized care plans.
• Automated Communication enabling providers to launch patient intervention campaigns targeting select populations using phone, email and text messaging.
• Reporting that tracks provider performance against internal and external quality measures, and reports on quality across multiple payers, measures and quality initiatives.

About Phytel
The premier company empowering physician-led population health improvement, Phytel provides physicians with proven technology to deliver timely, coordinated care to their patients. Phytel's state-of-the-art registry, which now encompasses more than 30 million patients nationwide, uses evidence-based chronic and preventive care protocols to identify and notify patients due for service, while tracking compliance and measuring quality and financial results. Phytel is ISO 9001:2008 certified, confirming adherence to ISO's internationally recognized Total Quality Management (TQM) standards. For more information, please visit www.phytel.com. Follow us on Twitter and find us on Facebook.

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