New Opportunities Open for Healthcare Providers, Payers and Other Healthcare Industry Stakeholders to Engage Patients, to Empower Care Teams, and to Truly and Cost-Effectively Manage Population Health

GEORGETOWN, Texas (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Today, Collain Healthcare, an LG CNS Company, announced that Interactive Virtual Care Team(TM) (IVC Team(TM)), an incredibly flexible, rapidly deployable, and massively scalable next-generation population health management suite of applications, is now available. The launch marks the first time in healthcare history that a patient-centric mobile personal health record (mPHR) combining comprehensive telehealth, remote patient monitoring (RPM), medication management, clinical decision support system (CDSS) and semantic interoperability engine solutions are available within a single platform, capable of connecting data sources (e.g., electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchanges (HIEs)) and enabling patient data flow across the entire care continuum. With the advent of the IVC Team solution, healthcare organizations of all kinds can benefit from healthcare IT efficiencies, streamlined, 24/7 management of at-risk patients, and better clinical and economic outcomes for population health initiatives, care referrals and transitions, and clinical trials or studies.

From the beginning of its development, the IVC Team platform was designed to put patients at the center of care--and the care decision-making and delivery processes - by enabling healthcare providers to deliver timely, personalized, efficient care across the care continuum, while at the same time empowering patients to take a more active role in their own healthcare. The IVC Team solution was developed to maximize clinical workflow efficiencies, so patient information, e.g., vital sign data, is collected through a simple and powerful mobile application (available on iOS and Android) via a broad range of Bluetooth-enabled devices and is automatically uploaded to 'the cloud' to be available across connected EHRs and HIEs on a real-time basis.

Provider, payer, operator and sponsor organizations using the IVC Team platform can potentially spot changes in patient status or condition before they result in unnecessary acute care utilizations, hospital readmissions, adverse events or other episodes of costly and preventable healthcare expenditures. Clinicians monitoring patient status are alerted in real-time to act, based on customizable patient data range settings, which can be configured at both the population and individual patient levels. Clinicians now have the power to intervene earlier and faster, armed with real-time data to drive better diagnosis, decision making, triage and treatment, e.g., by initiating a phone call or a Video Visit to engage with patients directly and to provide education or interventions with screen- and picture-sharing and white-board tools. As a result, care teams can more efficiently and proactively manage changes in condition, monitor medication adherence, impact patient engagement, and intervene on a timelier basis. And because of the next-generation level of backend HIT system connectivity that the IVC Team platform can provide, data can truly follow the patient and is made available in real-time to care teams as patients transition across care settings, which supports robust reporting and analytics--suggestive, predictive and prescriptive - and actual population health management and truly coordinated care.

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