Quantum Well being, a healthcare navigation platform geared toward self-insured employers, has expanded its current MSK providing with their collaboration with Sword Well being to change into the primary associate to make Sword’s train tracker platform Sword Transfer out there to its members. Sword Transfer enlists private trainers who work with members to ship personalised train packages. Along with Sword Transfer, Quantum Well being will even provide Sword Predict and Bloom. Predict is an AI engine utilizing predictive analytics to determine members at excessive danger of requiring surgical procedure. Bloom is a clinical-grade digital resolution to deal with girls’s bodily well being points.
Self-insured employers are searching for methods to steadiness the necessity to trim healthcare prices and enhance productiveness with out jeopardizing the well being of their workforce. Quantum Well being’s Most popular Accomplice options present entry to confirmed methods to its 500+ employer purchasers totaling virtually 3 million lively members to raised management musculoskeletal (MSK)-related prices. Quantum Well being additionally companions and integrates Hinge Well being as a part of its general MSK providing, which can also be a part of its bigger navigation platform and member expertise.
MSK are the most typical circumstances exterior of most cancers —1 in 2 People undergo from an MSK-related situation. MSK challenges have an effect on greater than 50 million People and are the highest drivers of incapacity claims, in keeping with information from Quantum and Sword. MSK is the highest healthcare value driver for companies, with one-sixth of employer-sponsored plan {dollars} attributed to MSK-related care, totaling a whopping $600 billion yearly. MSK-related surgical procedures may also influence productiveness, drive absenteeism and result in a slew of healthcare points resembling opioid abuse and psychological well being challenges.
In response to emailed questions, Quantum Well being Senior Vice President of Medical Technique Dr. Mike Sokol and Sword Well being Chief Medical Officer Dr. Vijay Yanamadala mentioned the growth of their collaboration.
Yanamadala defined how Sword Predict works.
Proprietary expertise makes use of medical claims information to determine at-risk sufferers who may benefit from digital care. A focused activation course of is embedded for speedy engagement with potential sufferers to elucidate the dangers of pointless remedy and drive customers towards digital care in its place. The high-risk affected person program is geared to people. It supplies 24/7, on-demand entry to digital bodily therapists and clinicians. Predict can determine sufferers who’re as much as 40x extra prone to have surgical procedure, greater than eight months earlier than a choice has been made to function. It helps folks keep away from pointless and dear hip, knee, and again surgical procedures with another, more practical program – all by leveraging machine studying, Yanamadala shared.
Dr. Vijay Yanamadala
“Sword is offering huge healthcare value financial savings, delivering a 62% discount in ache and a 60% discount in surgical procedure intent,” Yanamadala mentioned. “With Sword, members get well in addition to with the highest-intensity conventional bodily remedy, whereas doing it from the consolation of their very own house and on their very own time. A majority of members additionally noticed a lower in despair and anxiousness. The hope is to extend utilization of Sword by means of Quantum’s platform.”
The brand new partnership comes at a time when MSK-related surgical procedures require a extra complete set of options to fulfill the rising demand throughout the office for brand spanking new MSK remedy choices.
So how will Quantum Well being combine Sword Well being’s expertise?
Quantum Well being helps purchasers help their employers with a greater healthcare expertise. Its hundreds of educated Healthcare Warriors information members by means of their healthcare journey whether or not it’s routine care or a posh well being situation.
Dr. Mike Sokol
“Sword Well being’s merchandise can be built-in into Quantum Well being’s platform and Quantum’s Healthcare Warriors will present proactive training, utilization administration and post-discharge outreach to make sure the perfect outcomes and stop readmission or ER visits as a result of problems after knee, hip or spinal surgical procedures,” Sokol mentioned.
Given the variety of folks affected by MSK points, a number of digital well being corporations have pursued this market. HR profit managers chargeable for selecting these packages have their work reduce out for them. A survey of enormous employers by Enterprise Group on Well being discovered that 4 out of 5 employers favor options which have been confirmed efficient out there, with virtually one-third choosing an built-in resolution to drive engagement and utilization at scale.
Quantum Well being rigorously assesses would-be companions based mostly on strict technological and outcomes metrics. For instance, Sokol famous that Quantum not too long ago ended a partnership with a number one digital well being level resolution associate who was not assembly varied integration and member expertise milestones.
“Pretty much as good as a degree resolution could also be, like within the case of Sword Well being, it’s Quantum Well being’s means to attain 84% family engagement and our use of our proprietary Actual-Time Intercept and Healthcare Warriors to intercept members early of their healthcare journey that enables us to not solely drive higher engagement and utilization of options like Sword Well being, but in addition provides us a novel vantage level of what digital well being options work at scale, and which of them don’t,” Sokol noticed.
“Partnering with Sword Well being additional helps Quantum’s general worth prop and market alternative as our navigation platform not solely drives business main, onerous ROI however our most popular associate program has vetted key level options and absolutely built-in them, so we all know which of them do or don’t drive onerous ROI,” he added.
Girls’s well being can also be an vital space of curiosity for Sword, demonstrated by the corporate’s Bloom product designed to assist girls with MSK pelvic circumstances, resembling these skilled after a being pregnant. Pelvic flooring well being points can have an effect on sexuality, fertility and general well-being and signs can embrace bladder leakage, bowel points, pelvic organ prolapse, and power pelvic ache, Yanamadala famous.
“Bloom breaks the obstacles of time and assets, and confronts inequalities in terms of entry to healthcare. We’ve got been overwhelmed by the constructive response from members,” Yanamadala mentioned. “They’ve mentioned the expertise with Bloom has been ‘life altering’ and ‘wonderful’, particularly for busy mothers and anybody else for whom it could be tough to get to in-person appointments.”
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