Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network Selects Explorys Big Data Analytics Platform to Support Clinical Integration Initiatives
Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) August 20, 2014 -- Explorys, the leader in big data-driven healthcare transformation, today announced that Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network, a Wisconsin regional academic medical center and health network, has joined the Explorys Network to enable clinical integration initiatives. Froedtert & the Medical College health network includes three hospitals and more than 30 primary and specialty care health centers and clinics that deliver highly-coordinated, cost-effective healthcare to residents of Wisconsin and beyond.
As Froedtert & the Medical College health network increasingly focuses on population health as a means to improve care coordination and reduce costs, a comprehensive data analytics platform is essential.
“We selected Explorys’ cloud-based big data platform to help support population health management efforts across our health network,” said Dr. Jonathon Truwit, Chief Medical Officer, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin. “The ability to aggregate and analyze disparate data is critical to the success of this process. Our vision is to have actionable data at our clinicians’ fingertips in any setting so they can meaningfully affect care.”
“Provider organizations are under increasing pressure to provide quality care and ensure patient satisfaction and loyalty while decreasing the cost of delivering care,” said Stephen McHale, CEO, Explorys. “Explorys is proud to partner with Froedtert to help them succeed in today’s complex health environment by giving them the tools they need to more accurately predict outcomes and better understand its utilization and costs.”
Inspired by physicians and informatics leaders, Explorys combines the most powerful healthcare-computing platform in the world with turnkey solutions for clinical integration, at-risk population management, cost of care measurement, and pay-for-performance solutions. Explorys’ cloud-based platform is serving 22 integrated healthcare systems, 340 hospitals, and over 300,000 providers to identify patterns in diseases, improve treatments, and outcomes.
About Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin regional health care network is made up of Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee; Community Memorial Hospital, Menomonee Falls; St. Joseph’s Hospital, West Bend; and more than 30 primary and specialty care health centers and clinics. Joining the capabilities of an academic medical center affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert & the Medical College health network delivers highly coordinated, cost-effective health care to residents of Wisconsin and beyond. The network’s three hospitals have 772 staffed beds, nearly 40,000 annual admissions and more than 900,000 annual outpatient visits. For more information, visit http://www.froedtert.com.
About Explorys
Founded in 2009 as an innovation spinoff from Cleveland Clinic, Explorys provides the healthcare industry a secure, cloud-based analytics platform that leverages big data for clinical integration, predictive analytics, and business intelligence. Its platform enables the country’s leading provider organizations to more effectively leverage their data to improve care quality, patient satisfaction, and deliver value-based care. The Explorys solution supports Population Health Management and Accountable Care models while applying the power of massively-parallel data processing to save lives and make healthcare affordable. Since its inception, the Explorys platform has been adopted by 22 major integrated healthcare systems with 275 billion data elements, 48 million unique cared-for-lives, 340 hospitals, and 300,000 providers who collectively deliver $63B in care annually. For more information, visit http://www.explorys.com.
Samantha Wright, Explorys, http://www.explorys.com, +1 (216) 767-4757, [email protected]
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