SpeedTrack, which provides next-generation data analytics for California health care, has a new option that is helping in the fight against COVID-19.

Many patients, especially those who are elderly or with multiple chronic conditions have elected not to see their physicians during this challenging time (98 percent of practices are reporting substantial decreases in patient volumes, according to the CMA Physician Financial Health Survey, May 2020).

“We must remain especially vigilant of the health of our most vulnerable patients during this unprecedented period. We cannot wait for them to show up in the ED for treatment,” said Barry Bittman, M.D., chief population health and quality officer for the Inland Empire Foundation for Medical Care. ”Utilizing PHDS, we were able to identify more than 80 diagnostic classifications with increased COVID-19 susceptibility —patients with cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, as well as those with chronic renal failure, oncology diagnoses and immunocompromised states. We subsequently risk and cost-stratified the identified ACO population, and assigned a team of volunteers to contact a prioritized list of individuals telephonically with the objective of determining the presence of COVID-19 symptoms as well as their medication needs and food insecurity.”

Jeff Pratt, Speedtrack CEO added, “this restructured workflow was literally up and running within 24 hours of a 15-minute analytics session with Dr. Bittman. It’s personally gratifying to collaborate with clinicians on the front line to apply advanced data analytics and make a difference.”

Visit SpeedTrack’s website to learn more: www.speedtrack.com. 

With questions, please contact Darryl Sanford, HASC Director, Member Relations & Association Services.

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Darryl Sanford
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