Collaboration between Higi and ELLKAY gives MSU Health Care providers a complete view of patients’ history
Thanks to ELLKAY integration, patient data moves seamlessly between Higi and MSU Health Care’s patient charts, giving providers insights needed to manage care of patients with chronic conditions
Chicago, IL –November 14, 2022 – Higi, a consumer health engagement company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Babylon (NYSE: BBLN), and ELLKAY, a leader in healthcare interoperability, announce their latest integration with MSU Health Care’s Electronic Health Record, Athena. The integration through ELLKAY allows for physiological data collected through Higi’s Care Everyday remote monitoring devices, as well as patient insights captured by Care Everyday providers, to be added directly to the patient’s chart in Athena, providing a complete, longitudinal view of the patients’ history readily available for use by the MSU Health Care team.
Program-generated draft claims and associated documents are added directly into Athena’s workflow as well, compliantly supporting billing workflows. This streamlined data flow is easily accessed by providers and staff participating in the care of MSU Health Care patients.
In July of 2021, Higi and ELLKAY announced their partnership to facilitate integration between Higi and its healthcare organization customers. The latest launch with MSU Health Care represents an important milestone for the partnership, with the integration directly enabling the academic medical center to bill for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) services delivered through Higi Care Everyday. With seamless data movement powered by ELLKAY, providers are empowered with better visibility into their patient’s wellbeing; patients receive excellent care beyond the four walls of the system, extending MSU Health Care’s impact; and requirements are satisfied to meet billing standards, enabling the medical center to effectively submit claims for RPM care management.
"The next phase of our Care Everyday partnership with Higi centers around data integration into Athena," said Nathan Fitton, DO, Chief Medical Information Officer at MSU Health Care. "Allowing our providers to have direct access to remote patient data improves patient outcomes. We have already seen the benefit of Higi Care Everyday programs with improved blood pressure control and patient compliance with care plans, as well as overall satisfaction. With this partnership between Higi and ELLKAY, the process becomes simpler and more effective for our teams. Our providers get to see their patient’s most important health insights directly in Athena, and with this data at their fingertips, are able to proactively intervene, thus providing better care in the most appropriate and economical care setting. Program offerings like this keep us at the forefront of modern medicine delivery."
“There’s incredible value in the health data we collect across our platform. Our partnership with ELLKAY, and the interoperability they enable, allows us to make that data actionable for our healthcare customers,” said Jeff Bennett, CEO at Higi. “At MSU Health Care, the power of the data our Care Everyday devices and care managers collect serves multiple purposes. It’s part of the care transformation MSU Health Care is undertaking across Michigan and allows their providers to see and act on their patient’s data in near real-time. It’s also part of a model that supports the business of healthcare delivery by allowing the system to capture additional revenue associated with long-term patient care.”
Healthcare organizations like MSU Health Care partner with Higi to better understand the risks and needs of their patients, capture the data they need to intervene earlier, and meet consumers and patients where they are in the community to effectively provide the care they need. Higi Care Everyday, launched as a joint venture with Assure Health in 2020, is a clinical-first remote monitoring solution that extends care on behalf of health systems like MSU Health Care, while maintaining their world-class delivery standards. Those same organizations partner with ELLKAY to handle their back-end interoperability, allowing them to keep their resources focused on their business of improving patient care. The combination of the two empowers healthcare organizations to provide coordinated patient care through interoperability, providing actionable data to providers, transformed to the specifications needed for care.
“Interoperability is more than just standards,” shared Gurpreet Singh, Vice President of Interoperability Solutions, ELLKAY. “It is about enabling efficiencies in healthcare settings in order to get the right data to the right people at the right time for the right reasons. We are honored to be a part of this project with Higi, bringing these efficiencies to MSU Health Care.”
##
About Higi
Higi is a consumer health engagement company making it easier for all people to measure, track and act on their health data by bridging physical and digital touch points of the healthcare ecosystem. In service of health systems, health plans, retailers and consumer healthcare brands, Higi’s omni-channel platform meets consumers in their communities, at home and on the go. Our clinical partners connect with the consumers they care for through our nationwide network of nearly 10,000 FDA-cleared, free-to-use self-screening Smart Health Stations, home health devices, digital and mobile tools. The Higi platform addresses the needs of healthcare consumers across the care continuum through education designed to improve health literacy, disease specific assessments to inform risk stratification, and drive digital navigation and connected care offerings to avoid unscheduled care and improve outcomes. With the ability to move this data into healthcare’s workflows, Higi delivers digital health engagement at scale, creating actionable connections to the healthcare organizations that provide care and support.
About ELLKAY
ELLKAY is a recognized healthcare connectivity leader, providing solutions and services nationwide for over 20 years. ELLKAY empowers hospitals and health systems, diagnostic laboratories, healthcare IT vendors, payers, and other healthcare organizations with cutting-edge technologies and solutions. With over 58,000 practices connected, ELLKAY’s system capability arsenal has grown to over 750+ EHR/PM systems across 1,100+ versions. Healthcare organizations choose ELLKAY for an experienced data aggregation and connectivity partner who handles the complex back-end interoperability solutions, allowing HIT vendors to get to market with speed, at scale, while keeping their internal resources focused on their core business.
About MSU Health Care
MSU Health Care is the fully integrated academic health center of Michigan State University, representing more than 600 faculty and affiliate providers. Our commitment to safe, high-quality patient care is realized through our comprehensive services for people of any age, education of the next generation of health care providers and medical research. MSU Health Care providers treat ongoing primary care as well as some of the rarest forms of cancer and neurological conditions along with advanced surgical, pharmaceutical, rehabilitation, therapy and imaging services. With more than 100 affiliates located next door and as far as Ludington, Saginaw, Detroit, and Marquette, MSU Health Care is building hope and healing for Michigan. Our clinical efforts support future advancements through academic and research initiatives at Michigan State University. https://healthcare.msu.edu/