Digital well being platform firm Guidehealth has acquired the managed companies group (MSO) and value-based care service division of knowledge analytics platform firm Arcadia for an undisclosed sum.

Dallas-based Guidehealth additionally entered right into a know-how settlement to leverage Boston-based Arcadia’s information analytics platform—which curates and analyzes a fancy mesh of knowledge sources to enhance care supply and monetary efficiency—to energy its newly acquired providing.
 
Guidehealth mentioned it helps physicians by strengthening relationships with affiliated networks, enhancing monetary efficiency of value-based danger contracts, enabling development of high-value referrals, and lowering administrative burden. The corporate describes its platform as combining nearly embedded “Healthguides” and AI native workflows to convey collectively predictive information of a affected person on the proper time to maximise well being outcomes and worth for physicians and sufferers alike.

Guidehealth’s early ustomers embody Endeavor Well being (previously NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Well being) and AMITA Well being Care Community.
 
“Guidehealth, now 200 individuals sturdy, is worked up to welcome a crew who’ve constantly achieved Greatest in KLAS recognition for the previous 5 years in value-based healthcare companies as a managed companies group,” mentioned founder and CEO Sanjay Doddamani, M.D., in a press release. “A know-how partnership with Arcadia supplies us with entry to confirmed know-how and deep experience in information administration that is smart for us and partnering physicians to leap ahead, lowering administrative and scientific burden to handle danger and, most significantly, to serve sufferers higher.”

Doddamani was previously the CEO of Upstream Well being, which works to embed prescribing pharmacists and coordination nurses into major care practices. Beforehand, he was chief doctor government at Southwestern Well being Assets in Dallas, a senior advisor to the Heart for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and a chief medical officer at Geisinger. 
 
“Arcadia is proud to have constructed a legacy of enhancing healthcare organizations’ skills to enhance scientific and monetary outcomes,” mentioned Arcadia President and CEO Michael Meucci, in a press release. “Partnering with Guidehealth will permit us to proceed serving to our prospects achieve value-based care and inhabitants well being, whereas additionally empowering us to deal with our core enterprise of offering a number one information platform for healthcare and additional spend money on our merchandise that allow extra full and clear choice making, finally resulting in happier and more healthy days for all.”

Healthcare Innovation just lately interviewed Anna Basevich, senior vp of enterprise partnerships and buyer enablement at Arcadia, concerning the evolution of clinically built-in networks in addition to the corporate’s work on a inhabitants well being platform with the State of California to assist the Cal-AIM Medicaid transformation effort. 
 
“We now have harnessed a robust information analytics platform to handle populations throughout a number of areas, insurers and scientific companions to realize higher affected person outcomes and diminished doctor burden,” added Guidehealth Chief Expertise Officer and Co-founder Michael Gleeson, in a press release. “By partnering with Arcadia, Guidehealth instantly has entry to among the finest platforms for value-based care. This basis permits us to deal with predictive and generative AI, by way of a mix of Guidehealth’s proprietary fashions and business main AI level options. Because of this, we will handle quite a lot of ache factors alongside the affected person journey and helps our prospects obtain predictable sustained financial savings in value-based care.” 

Gleeson is the the previous chief technique and innovation officer at Arcadia.

 Key companies that Guidehealth’s newly acquired MSO at present supplies embody improved processes for go to entry and referrals, administration of prior authorizations and utilization administration, community administration and paying claims to healthcare suppliers—particularly in two-sided danger preparations.