Atlantic Health System introduced this month that it’s adopting FeelBetter’s know-how for polypharmacy affected person administration. Polypharmacy sufferers are people who use 5 or extra medicines concurrently. 

The well being system — which supplies care primarily in New Jersey but additionally in components of New York and Pennsylvania —  is now using the startup’s customized remedy administration platform throughout its accountable care organizations (ACOs).

Really feelBetter, primarily based in Tel Aviv and Boston, was based in 2018. The startup is designed to handle a rising public well being concern amongst senior sufferers — the truth that a lot of them have been prescribed a number of medicines for simultaneous use. This paves the way in which for poor well being outcomes, the elevated use of well being providers and rising care prices, mentioned Really feelBetter CEO Liat Primor.

The U.S. healthcare system’s flawed remedy administration protocols lead to 275,000 deaths and more than $528 billion in avoidable prices annually, she identified.

“We believe the time has come to rethink medication management,” Primor declared. “We’re leveraging technology to deliver a more personalized, whole-patient approach to medication management — one that goes beyond a single illness, diagnosis or point in time and comprehensively focuses on each individual’s care journey.”

Really feelBetter’s platform pinpoints sufferers at excessive threat of degradation and preventable hospitalization attributable to suboptimal remedy administration and proactively suggests fast, actionable interventions to cut back these dangers, she defined. The answer additionally helps clinicians monitor sufferers’ progress and measure the affect of medical interventions, she added.

For its new partnership with Atlantic Health System, Really feelBetter will deploy its platform to flag sufferers at excessive threat of being hospitalized for polypharmacy-related causes, suggest remedy adjustments and monitor particular person care journeys. Atlantic Health System will deploy the know-how throughout three ACOs serving greater than 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries and greater than 420,000 sufferers with business insurance coverage.

Really feelBetter’s goal clients are organizations targeted on value-based care, Primor mentioned. The startup’s SaaS answer can assist them enhance useful resource allocation, shortly cut back the burden of preventable hospitalizations and enhance the capability of medical pharmacists, she famous.

In Primor’s view, Really feelBetter’s essential opponents are Arine and Tabula Rasa.

“All our competitors are selling to health plans and integrating with claims while we are targeting providers and integrating both the EMR and claims,” she declared.

Really feelBetter’s know-how additionally “goes beyond a single point in time or disease,” Primor added. The startup’s platform encompasses each historic and real-time knowledge to judge the entire affected person and comprehensively convey an individual’s well being journey, she defined.

In addition to the Atlantic Health System information, Really feelBetter shall be saying a couple of extra well being system clients within the coming months, Primor mentioned.

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