Microsoft partners with Ky. health center to facilitate ACO
Norton Healthcare has partnered with Microsoft to use the company’s Amalga Unified Intelligence System and HealthVault systems to aggregate and mine data. The partnership will allow Norton to facilitate an accountable care organization (ACO) initiative in Kentucky and Indiana.
The Norton ACO will be part of the Brookings-Dartmouth ACO pilot project. Norton is working with health insurer Humana to co-create incentives for healthcare systems to increase quality and efficiency, enhance patient care and eliminate over-spending and image over-utilization.
The Amalga system will help to create a view of patient data that can be stored across multiple sites and providers. Because the integration of health IT is important within ACOs, with help of Amalga, the Louisville, Ky.-based Norton will be able to see across a span of patient data.
Norton will use Microsoft's Amalga platform to manage chronic conditions, payment data and patient data managed through HealthVault, a personal health record application, according to Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash.
The integration of HealthVault will allow Norton to create a patient-centered medical home, where patients have the capability to manage their own health information and share with providers across the system. Patients, with the help of physicians, will be better able to control their vitals, blood glucose levels and blood pressure at the home.
In addition, linkage of HealthVault with the EMR will decrease the likelihood of duplicate testing, Microsoft stated.
Norton provides patient care at more than 100 locations in Louisville and Southern Indiana. The health network includes five hospitals in the Louisville area and 12 urgent care centers.
The Norton ACO will be part of the Brookings-Dartmouth ACO pilot project. Norton is working with health insurer Humana to co-create incentives for healthcare systems to increase quality and efficiency, enhance patient care and eliminate over-spending and image over-utilization.
The Amalga system will help to create a view of patient data that can be stored across multiple sites and providers. Because the integration of health IT is important within ACOs, with help of Amalga, the Louisville, Ky.-based Norton will be able to see across a span of patient data.
Norton will use Microsoft's Amalga platform to manage chronic conditions, payment data and patient data managed through HealthVault, a personal health record application, according to Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash.
The integration of HealthVault will allow Norton to create a patient-centered medical home, where patients have the capability to manage their own health information and share with providers across the system. Patients, with the help of physicians, will be better able to control their vitals, blood glucose levels and blood pressure at the home.
In addition, linkage of HealthVault with the EMR will decrease the likelihood of duplicate testing, Microsoft stated.
Norton provides patient care at more than 100 locations in Louisville and Southern Indiana. The health network includes five hospitals in the Louisville area and 12 urgent care centers.