Jvion Partners with Community Health Network to Mitigate Impact of Deferred Care

The Indianapolis-based healthcare system will use Jvion’s prescriptive clinical AI CORE to drive proactive outreach to at-risk ACO members who deferred care during the pandemic

Jvion, a leader in clinical artificial intelligence (AI), announced that Community Health Network, an integrated health system with over 200 sites of care and affiliates throughout Central Indiana, will leverage Jvion’s prescriptive clinical AI CORE to target outreach to Accountable Care Organization (ACO) members who are likely to suffer negative health outcomes as a result of deferring care during the pandemic. The CORE’s recommendations will help Care Navigators direct the right interventions at the right time to prevent vulnerable patients from experiencing a negative health event.

At least 41% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided necessary medical care to prevent infection from COVID-19. Without proactive interventions, many patients who deferred care will deteriorate to more advanced disease states, end up admitted to the hospital, or develop new diseases that go undetected in their early stages, demanding more costly care in the future. All told, deferred care could increase annual U.S. healthcare costs by $30-65 billion.

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“As a value-based care provider, one of our biggest priorities in recovering from the pandemic is to prevent patients who deferred care from suffering worse outcomes as a result,” said Dr. Patrick McGill, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer at Community Health Network. “But knowing which patients are at risk of deteriorating isn’t always easy. Jvion’s prescriptive AI will give us the insights to prioritize our patient outreach so we can achieve our goal of preventing avoidable patient harm.”

Unlike most predictive analytics tools, the CORE accounts for social determinants of health and lifestyle factors to reveal hidden patient risk. The CORE also determines whether that risk can be modified, and recommends the interventions and outreach channels most likely to be effective in reducing risk. These insights enable care teams to focus their resources on proactively re-engaging patients who deferred care, preventing costly hospitalizations and directing patients to more appropriate settings of care.

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“Deferred care will be a major challenge for health systems as they look to rebound financially from the pandemic, especially for value-based systems,” said Dr. John Frownfelter, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Jvion. “However, timely interventions can prevent costly utilization events that stem from deferred care. We’re proud to partner with Community Health Network to tackle deferred care, reduce costs and improve health.”

Jvion has launched several initiatives to support health systems’ financial recovery from the pandemic. Most recently, Jvion launched a Vaccination Prioritization Index (VPI), as part of its COVID Community Vulnerability Map, that ranks communities and individuals by their vulnerability to COVID-19 and their priority level for vaccination, based on CDC guidelines and socioeconomic factors. Jvion also has solutions that address uncompensated care, another major financial challenge for health systems after more than 14.6 million Americans lost their employer-sponsored health insurance last year.

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