VirtualHealth Partners with MCG Health to Optimize Utilization Management Workflows
SEATTLE, April 7, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- MCG Health (MCG), part of the Hearst Health network and a leading provider of informed care strategies, announces the certified integration of its Cite CareWebQI solution with VirtualHealth's comprehensive care management platform, HELIOS. This new partnership will give VirtualHealth's and MCG's mutual clients the ability to access the rich evidence of MCG care guidelines within HELIOS' ground-breaking care management platform, offering a seamless integration in the context of whole person care. The combined solutions offer evidence-based pathways for value-based care, a priority for many healthcare organizations.
Benefits of the HELIOS/CareWebQI integration include a seamless and intuitive utilization management (UM) workflow with interactive access to MCG clinical content. MCG is considered a trusted source of care guidance licensed by nine of the largest U.S. health plans and nearly 2,000 hospitals, while VirtualHealth supports millions of patients across the country and was consecutively named one of the fastest-growing companies in North America by Deloitte in 2018 and 2019.
"By thoughtfully incorporating MCG's latest content into our custom workflows, we are offering a truly frictionless utilization management capability that is fully integrated with care management workflows," said VirtualHealth CEO, Adam Sabloff. "This collaboration with MCG highlights our driving commitment to create a more holistic and intelligent ecosystem of care."
"MCG is excited to join forces with innovative partners like VirtualHealth to help support the ongoing transformation to value-based care," said MCG President and CEO, Jon Shreve. "Our ultimate goal is that the MCG-VirtualHealth partnership will help drive better clinical decisions for millions of health plan members."
Inquiries on leveraging the new VirtualHealth/MCG software integration can be submitted here: https://www.mcg.com/contact-us/sales-inquiry/ or here: https://www.virtualhealth.com/connect-with-us.html.
About VirtualHealth
HELIOS by VirtualHealth is the first comprehensive care management platform purpose-built to power the entire ecosystem of value-based care. Utilized by some of the most innovative health plans in the country to manage millions of members, HELIOS streamlines person-centered care with intelligent case and disease management workflows, unmatched data integration, broad-spectrum collaboration, patient engagement, and configurable analytics and reporting. Named one of the fastest-growing companies in North America by Deloitte in 2018 and 2019, VirtualHealth empowers healthcare organizations to achieve enhanced outcomes while maximizing efficiency, improving transparency, and lowering costs. For more information, visit http://www.virtualhealth.com.
About MCG Health
MCG, part of the Hearst Health network, helps healthcare organizations implement informed care strategies that proactively and efficiently move people toward health. MCG's transparent assessment of the latest research and scholarly articles, along with our own data analysis, gives patients, providers, and payers the vetted information they need to feel confident in every care decision, in every moment. For more information visit http://www.mcg.com or follow our Twitter handle at @MCG_Health.
About Hearst Health
The mission of Hearst Health is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person's health journey. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from Hearst Health reaches 85 percent of discharged patients, 205 million insured individuals, 99 million home health visits and 3.2 billion dispensed prescriptions. The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase, MHK (formerly MedHOK--Medical House of Knowledge) and Hearst Health Ventures (http://www.hearsthealth.com). Hearst also holds a minority interest in the precision medicine and oncology analytics company M2Gen. Follow Hearst Health on Twitter @HearstHealth or LinkedIn @Hearst-Health.
SOURCE MCG Health
