Wellcentive has been contracted to provide population health management technology to Adventist HealthCare, the company said.
Adventist HealthCare is a faith-based, not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system based in Gaithersburg, MD that includes nationally accredited acute care and specialty hospitals, mental health services and home health agencies serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
As part of the partnership´s approach to patient care, Wellcentive will develop the ability to integrate privacy-sensitive aspects of social determinants of health into patient data, sharable throughout care teams as part of data aggregation and translation.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have long recognized that social determinants of health impact care plan adherence, health risk factors and the success of chronic care and outcomes.
Social determinants of health range from housing, literacy, job training and access to transportation and social support networks to socioeconomic levels, exposure to crime and violence, access to media and even cultural norms.
Adventist HealthCare offers health and wellness services to the community, including acute hospital care, rehabilitation, mental and behavioral health services, home care, health education, a physician network and wellness services for businesses.
Wellcentive´s solutions are built from the ground up to help our customers improve quality, optimize revenue, and transform the healthcare process.
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