Q: Can you tell us a little about the background of your organization?<\/strong><\/p>\nLocated in Valdosta, GA, Barnes Healthcare Services began as a small pharmacy in Georgia in 1909, and we are now one of the largest privately-owned post-acute care providers in the country. Among our offerings are a range of clinical in-home care services, including continuous, long-term patient engagement and management that drives adherence to care plans beyond hospitals, physicians, skilled-rehab facilities and home health agencies.<\/p>\n
Q: What were some of the business challenges Barnes was facing before working with Tribridge\/DXC? <\/strong><\/p>\nManaging patients with multiple chronic conditions is challenging, yet we firmly believe that our customers and stakeholders deserve quality outcomes and satisfaction with their experience.\u00a0 Our legacy technology ecosystem was unable to show how we manage patients across the care continuum, and how our interventions were improving our patients\u2019 quality of life.\u00a0 Care Plans and Assessments were not well integrated or easy to reconfigure, IoT and predictive, proactive capabilities were limited, and patient education and clinical intervention tracking was very manual with risk for inaccuracies.<\/p>\n
Q: How were those business challenges impacting your care teams? <\/strong><\/p>\nDemonstrating the value of our services, quantitatively, was very challenging and labor intensive.\u00a0 Our Healthy at Home program requires a lot of touchpoints between our care team members and their patients, and valuable time was lost dealing with cumbersome data entry.<\/p>\n
Q: What led you to pursue Health360? <\/strong><\/p>\nWe had been tracking the population health technology landscape and determined that the Microsoft platform combined with Health360 had the flexibility, extendibility, and industry specificity to digitally transform our business. In addition to Health360\u2019s patient relationship management and care coordination capabilities, we\u2019re also leveraging Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Field Services use cases, Power BI, SharePoint, and Azure.<\/p>\n
Q: Where have you see the biggest impact to your business since choosing to partner with Tribridge\/DXC?<\/strong><\/p>\nBarnes focuses on providing exceptional patient care across the continuum while reducing the burdens of chronic care management and readmissions. Health360 has dramatically enhanced our ability to effectively and efficiently manage this care across geographically dispersed patients. The solution enables us to remotely monitor, collect and analyze real-time patient data, via mobile tablets, to help evaluate patient readmission risk, enable more predictive and proactive care, and deliver self-care and other educational materials.\u00a0 With Health360, we can better evaluate patient readmission risks and proactively monitor patient information, empowering us to quickly identify and address health issues.<\/p>\n
Q: What are care teams more empowered to do today that they couldn\u2019t do before?<\/strong><\/p>\nWith Health360, clinicians can identify patients who are at risk and require an immediate medical response, those who remain borderline and those who are responding well to their individualized treatment plan and likely will not need monitoring past key milestones.<\/p>\n
Q: What particular elements of the solution drove those areas of change?<\/strong><\/p>\nIn addition to remote patient monitoring, Health360 enables us to deliver alerts based on a variety of parameters: blood pressure readings outside of a desired range, compliance with personal goals, admit, discharge, transfer (ADT) events, patient-generated data such as assessment-derived depression indicators, and more.\u00a0 These alerts empower us to take a more proactive care approach and target resources where they are needed most, increasing the number of patients we can assign to care managers while simultaneously improving the quality of care.<\/p>\n
Q: What advice would you give other organizations who are considering a similar investment? <\/strong><\/p>\nThere are many products and services vendors in the healthcare IT market.\u00a0 It\u2019s critical that your technology vendors have deep healthcare industry experience and, more importantly, an ability to execute on complex projects.\u00a0 We wanted a platform that was tailor-made for patient relationship management and care coordination yet flexible enough for us to manage on our own and respond to market-driven adaptations along the way.\u00a0 Tribridge\/DXC quickly aligned and contributed to our strategic roadmap and was adept in working through data migration and integration challenges.<\/p>\n
Q: After this first phase of transformation, what\u2019s the next step in empowering care teams and improving patient care?<\/strong><\/p>\nBased on our initial success with Health360, we are now leveraging the solution for chronic care management and data generation in nonclinical scenarios, including producing data on success rates for referrals that help us secure new partnerships with providers.<\/p>\n
Try the Health360 solution today<\/strong><\/p>\nTribridge\/DXC has a deep knowledge of the healthcare industry, and Health360 is a proven solution that many healthcare organizations beyond Barnes have seen powerful results with. The solution provides proactive care management, with perpetual and holistic care plans consisting of both clinical and patient goals, tasks, and behavioral changes based on patient preferences. Plus, Health360 pairs perfectly with Microsoft\u2019s deep investments in solutions such as Dynamics, Azure, HealthBots and other Intelligent Health<\/a> technology. Tribridge is already starting to leverage the latest from Microsoft, enhancing Health360 with greater IoT and Azure Machine Learning capabilities, increasing the efficacy of providing a single view of patients across all touchpoints and departments, and continuing to improve telehealth and remote patient monitoring. Try the Health360 solution today on Microsoft AppSource<\/a>.<\/p>\nVisit us at HIMSS<\/strong><\/p>\nMicrosoft provides the intelligent services and trusted platform for health solutions. To learn more about how Microsoft and partners are enabling healthcare organizations like Barnes to transform care, visit our booth at HIMSS 2018<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These alerts empower healthcare organizations to take a more proactive care approach and target resources where they are needed most. Learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":10854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1507],"post_tag":[4292],"content-type":[1484,1483],"coauthors":[2577],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","tag-iot","content-type-partners","content-type-thought-leadership"],"yoast_head":"\n
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