Dive Brief:
- Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System has chosen Cerner's cloud-based programmable population analytics platform HealtheIntent to provide insight on the population level as well as at an individual and provider level.
- Dr. Nicholas Marko, Geisinger's chief data officer, said Cerner's system was chosen for three main reasons: It's built on a modern data architecture, integrates data from many sources seamlessly, and Cerner's willingness to be a development partner. He added since Geisinger is a payer and provider, it has data from both the clinical and payer sides.
- The main challenge, according to Marko, was to "figure out new, interesting, and productive ways to take all of the information we have from lots of different places and put it together into one or more systems," which he added would provide a "comprehensive and valuable view into our patients and the people we take care of."
Dive Insight:
According to Healthcare IT News, the platform will assist in taking care of populations and patients via numerous programs in many chronic disease scenarios. It will also identify financial and clinical risks.
Marko remarked one of the key areas of information they hope to discover is understanding the behavior of patients and providers. "We try to use our data to understand how and why people do things that they do in regards to health," he explained. "We are trying to get into behavioral analysis to understand why everybody involved in the healthcare relationship is doing what they are doing and how we can use our data to enforce the positive part of that."