BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eQHealth Solutions was selected by Peoples Health, a Louisiana Medicare Advantage company, to support its efforts to provide the highest level of preventive, chronic and acute care management to its plan members by using eQSuite® business intelligence, healthcare analytics and population health management technology. Designed for health plan administrators and medical management teams, eQHealth’s technology facilitates care transitions, case management and disease management across the entire continuum of care and provides insights on the factors driving the quality of care and healthcare costs. eQHealth’s system will also be leveraged to identify high-risk members, categorizing and prioritizing members by illness and severity of illness, and pinpointing members needing intervention to fill gaps in care.

Established in 1994, Peoples Health was founded by medical providers, and today it continues to be guided by physicians and is focused on providing coverage to people with Medicare. Its Medicare health plans serve more than 60,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Louisiana and are the state’s highest-rated Medicare HMO plans. The company is accredited by NCQA.

“Peoples Health is a pioneer in developing successful health plans for the Medicare population and a true homegrown success story. We are excited to work with Peoples Health to deliver actionable insights for population health management and quality reporting and to support their entire Medicare health team. Our cloud-based technology platform offers an agile and comprehensive care coordination and population health management solution to facilitate enhanced care in Peoples Health community-based centers, regional offices and physician offices,” said Glen J. Golemi, President and Chief Executive Officer for eQHealth Solutions.
“Our care coordination model puts our members’ healthcare needs at the center of every decision that we make,” said Warren Murrell, Peoples Health president and CEO. “Our approach is to provide each member with personalized care focusing on specific needs and goals. After an extensive search, we selected eQHealth Solutions’ technology to enhance our clinical efforts and provide a connected platform for our team of clinical professionals. We were impressed by eQHealth’s 30 years of experience in clinical quality improvement, and we see great potential in the partnership to strengthen our patient-centered, comprehensive care model to continually improve the quality of our members’ lives.”

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