Geneia & LVBCH Empowering Employers with Analytic Insights

BETHLEHEM, Pa., May 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Geneia, an analytics and technology leader in transforming healthcare delivery, and the Lehigh Valley Business Coalition on Healthcare (LVBCH) are empowering employers with the timely, actionable analytic insights needed to improve the quality and cost of employee healthcare. 

"As the result of our work with Geneia, our employers now have a much better understanding of the current and future healthcare needs of their employee populations as well as the expected costs," said Tom Croyle, LVBCH president. "The availability of these insights at the employer and coalition levels means LVBCH is able to help our employers better prepare and, in many cases, improve upon the expected trends in cost and employee health."

Through the Geneia – LVBCH partnership, employers are using the Theon^® advanced analytics platform to access actionable insights, such as population demographics, emergency department utilization and primary care usage. There currently are ten employers representing over 50,000 lives in the advanced analytics program.

Some of the most salient insights across the LVBCH Care Engager^® Module Users population are:

• The population skews younger and is concentrated in families.
• 35 percent have not seen a primary care physician in the past 12 months.
• Cancer and cancer-related treatment are the third highest cost condition, yet essential screenings that could identify cancers before they progress are below Pennsylvania quality benchmarks established by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:

• As noted in the LVBCH publication, Type 2 Diabetes Report – 2016, the Greater Lehigh Valley has more people of working age who have Type 2 diabetes compared to the rest of Pennsylvania and the country, but the data in the Care Engager^® Module of the Platform shows far too many diagnosed diabetics are not receiving their annual diabetes checks.
  
  To slow disease progression, the standard of care for diabetics includes an HbA1C/blood glucose test every six months and annual foot and eye exams, yet:
• 381 diabetics or 15 percent lack HbA1C/blood glucose tests,
• 860 diabetics or 33 percent lack foot exams,
• 1,618 diabetics or 62 percent lack eye exams.
  
  
• Complications of pregnancy are in the top 10 conditions driving costs and two of the most costly claims resulted from premature births. But only half of pregnant women received pre-natal care, and even fewer, approximately 25 percent, received post-partum care.

Together, these insights indicate there is a significant opportunity to improve these numbers by working much more closely with the health plan and participating providers to emphasize preventive care and chronic condition management.  Collaboration on value-based outcomes has the potential to provide meaningful improvements in cost and quality, and mitigate disease progression in the LVBCH population.

"Without a doubt, LVBCH is one of the most forward-looking employer coalitions in the country," said Mark A. Caron, FACHE, CHICO, CEO of Geneia. "It is empowering employers with the kind of analytic insights that accelerate meaningful and effective collaboration between employers, health plans and providers. Only by coordinating our efforts can we hope to reverse two decades of declining employee health and increasing costs."

To learn more about the partnership and the population insights, join Geneia at the LVBCH 37^th Annual Conference, Healthcare in Transition: What's Next?, on May 4.

ABOUT LVBCH
LVBCH is a multi-state, not-for-profit coalition of employers striving to provide the finest healthcare coverage possible for their employees, in the most economical fashion. The Coalition's mission is to improve the delivery, cost and quality of healthcare in our communities through: Collective employer action; Quality and data initiatives; Value-based purchasing; and, Providing forums for the exchange of information, ideas and resources. The Coalition is also a member of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, the National Quality Forum and The Leapfrog Group. For more information, visit www.lvbch.com.  

ABOUT GENEIA
Geneia LLC specializes in the development of advanced clinical, analytics, and technical solutions for healthcare transformation. Our team of physicians, nurses, technologists, analytics experts, and business professionals have created a suite of solutions that enable health plans, hospitals and employers to better understand, evaluate and manage the health of their populations. Using our advanced analytics platform, remote patient monitoring tool, and education and research institute, we work with healthcare organizations to improve outcomes, lower cost and restore the Joy of Medicine. The company has offices in Harrisburg, PA, Manchester, NH, and Nashville, TN. To learn more, visit geneia.com or connect with us Twitter and LinkedIn.

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