TN Health System Strikes Analytics Partnership to Advance Patient Care

Tennessee-based LifePoint Health has launched a strategic collaboration with data and analytics technology company Health Catalyst to advance patient care and improve outcomes across the health system’s network.

Under the partnership, LifePoint Health will implement Health Catalyst’s suite of patient care solutions, including a range of data collection and analytics platforms. By leveraging these solutions, the health system intends to reduce variation in clinical outcomes for patients, improve the overall quality of care, and further advance LifePoint's data and analytics capabilities to support its National Quality Program, the press release states.

In addition to supporting LifePoint Health’s quality program, the partnership is set to build upon the health system’s innovation strategy, known as LifePoint Forward. LifePoint Forward focuses on enhancing the health system’s capacity to identify, invest in, and deploy solutions that improve access, quality, and patient outcomes while decreasing costs.

"Partnering with Health Catalyst will enable us to better leverage important clinical data that can drive meaningful improvements in patient care, safety and satisfaction while advancing our mission of Making Communities Healthier," said Christopher Rehm, MD, senior vice president, and chief medical officer of LifePoint Health, in the press release. "We are committed to taking a data-driven approach to improving care delivery through our National Quality Program and look forward to the many ways our collaboration with Health Catalyst will help support and accelerate this critical work."

The analytics solutions will allow LifePoint Health to achieve multiple goals, including discovering and sharing performance insights with self-service dashboards, enabling self-service data science within business intelligence, improving quality measurements and reporting, and improving clinical, operational, and financial performance decisions, according to the press release.

"We have great admiration for LifePoint Health and are honored to have the opportunity to support the organization's efforts to improve quality and safety as a leader in community-based care," remarked Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst, in the press release.

Recently, several healthcare providers have entered into analytics-based partnerships to focus on population health.

Last week, Akron Children’s Hospital launched a strategic, multi-year partnership with Health Catalyst to advance pediatric population health and improve patient outcomes through data analytics.

Through the collaboration, Akron Children’s will utilize Health Catalyst’s population health management solutions and work with a team of experts in population health outcomes and analytics improvement provided by the company.

The partnership is expected to improve clinical, operational, and financial processes for Akron Children's and the hospital's ACO, Akron Children's Health Collaborative (ACHC). Health Catalyst’s solutions will be implemented at two hospitals in the Akron Children’s network, which include over 1,300 pediatric care providers and 287,000 patients.

Hawaii Health Network (HHN) and COPE Health Solutions (CHS) have also launched a population health analytics partnership focused on providing value-based payment insights to enhance performance under a new Medicare risk arrangement for the clinically integrated network (CIN).

Under the new partnership, CHS will provide population health management analytics services to HHN via its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, Analytics for Risk Contracting (ARC). The platform will integrate claims from payers and data from EHRs, labs, social determinants of health (SDOH), and other sources. These data are then paired with national cost and utilization benchmarks to enable analytics that will help HHN identify opportunities to enhance quality of care, reduce costs, and grow its network.