Walgreens' Healthcare Clinic NPs three times more effective with Inovalon

BOWIE, Md. — Inovalon on Tuesday announced a multi-year expansion of its relationship with Walgreens, leveraging Inovalon’s analysis of more than 9.2 billion medical events that feeds analytic insights at the point of care.

 

“Over the past year, working together we have demonstrated the important role Healthcare Clinics can play in offering a convenient healthcare setting for member assessments,” stated Jeffrey Kang, Walgreens SVP health and wellness services and solutions. “We have found that our nurse practitioners are more than three times more effective in their assessments and quality scores when utilizing Inovalon analytics. We’re pleased to expand our relationship with Inovalon, and to continue driving the ongoing transformation of healthcare in the U.S.”

 

“We have been extremely impressed with Walgreens commitment to innovation and partnership, leading the expanding role of the retail clinic business model in utilizing technology to improve the way the healthcare system operates,” said Keith Dunleavy, CEO Inovalon. “The expansion of our relationship builds on our shared commitment to drive meaningful impact across the healthcare landscape.”

 

Since early 2014, Walgreens and Inovalon have collaborated to offer two versions of member assessments at Healthcare Clinic locations. Both utilized Inovalon’s cloud-based Electronic Patient Assessment Solution Suite (ePASS) intervention support platform. While one version was fully integrated into Inovalon’s advanced analytics platform, the other version allowed encounters to be performed within the platform unaided by analytics. With this expansion of the relationship, Walgreens will provide only analytically-driven patient assessments supported by ePASS. These analytics support the identification and resolution of patient-specific gaps in care, quality, diseases co-morbidity and compliance that impact quality outcomes and financial performance for the healthcare community.