Vantage Health Technologies and Oncology Consultants Partner to Increase Health Equity by Improving Patient Care and Outcomes
Implementing AI-driven “Next Best Action” recommendations, Vantage empowers Oncology Consultant partners to proactively address Social Determinants of Health factors for each patient
Vantage Health Technologies (Vantage), a platform of cloud-based solutions for payers, providers and government health organizations and a part of the BroadReach Group, and Oncology Consultants, a Texas-based health care provider rooted in providing state-of-the-art cancer treatment in a caring environment, today announced a new partnership. The partnership aims to assist Oncology Consultants identify and address barriers to care that create health inequities within their patient population – such as language barriers, funding for transport to attend medical appointments and a host of other non-medical factors that may influence a patient’s ability to access care. This patient-centered approach, underwritten by technology aims to improve community oncology patient outcomes and experience.
Specifically, by implementing Vantage’s Population Health Oversight cloud-based solution, Oncology Consultants practitioners can improve patient risk stratification to develop more appropriate strategies and actions to equitably address its overall patient population. The partnership aims to reduce repetitive administrative work, improve patient care efficiency, and optimize workflows that impact the patient experience.
This partnership comes at a critical time as the bridge between health equity and the transformation of care within the U.S. continues to widen. According to a recent survey conducted by Vantage and the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), 97% of executives and senior decision-makers surveyed within the COA network believe that health equity is important for their organizations to address. Yet over half (55.3%) said their organization has no roadmap to address health equity across their people, process and technology. As oncology makes up around 70% of the cost of care within the US health systems, addressing barriers to health equity is all the more essential.
Vantage is designed to process clinical data such as Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and patient-reported data to proactively identify potential issues that will impact patient outcomes. Using AI-driven technology, Vantage provides “Next Best Action” recommendations for a patient’s care plan linked to intervention workflows. As a result, partners can significantly reduce duplicative work and improve patient care.
“Our goal is to provide an AI-driven solution that improves patient population management and gives partners the capability to provide tailored, value-based care and reduce health inequity,” said Dr. John Sargent, co-founder of Vantage Health Technologies and the BroadReach Group. “This new partnership symbolizes how U.S. oncology providers are taking action in addressing health inequity proactively and we’re thrilled to be the technology powering those actions.”
A premier adult medical oncology and hematology practice in Houston, Texas, for over 40 years, Oncology Consultants’ practitioners now have access to AI-powered intervention workflows to close SDoH gaps for patients while appropriately managing costs. Vantage leverages healthcare organizations’ data, enriched with public and proprietary SDoH data and other data sources, to identify and address systemic disparities and inefficiencies impacting quality, cost and outcomes. Fully integrated with Microsoft Teams and Outlook and hosted on Azure, Vantage’s AI empowers healthcare professionals by delivering individualized insight.
“With AI technology like Vantage, we will be able to significantly impact patient experience and outcomes with data sources and intelligence we’d otherwise not have access to,” said Alti Rahman at Oncology Consultants. “We are confident that Vantage will benefit patients from a place of care and allow us to better serve the Texan communities by gaining the insights to provide personalized care experiences that truly address social determinants of health that impact health inequities.”
Vantage Health Technologies works with payers and providers to implement AI-enabled solutions that suggest health interventions for underserved populations to reduce health inequities. These kinds of inequities cost the U.S. healthcare system $320 billion annually and if left unchecked, these costs are estimated to rise to $1 trillion or more by 2040.
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