Aetna And Banner Health Expand Accountable Care Relationship To Support More Than 200,000 Patients

Aetna (NYSE: AET) announced today it is expanding its relationship with Banner Health Network to include full technology support for population health management and patient services for more than 200,000 patients. The agreement includes support for the 50,000 Medicare fee-for-service patients covered under the Pioneer ACO shared savings program and members in Aetna’s ACO relationship with Banner Health Network.

Aetna will fully implement its broad “technology stack” and care management services to support greater care quality, coordination and convenience for these Banner Health doctors and their patients. The agreement includes implementation of the following capabilities from Aetna companies:

• Health information exchange technology from Medicity to enable the secure, two-way exchange of health information across a patient’s entire care team, including hospitals, physicians, labs, pharmacies and other ambulatory services;
• Active CareTeam ^SM from Active Health Management to give physicians access to CareEngine ^®-powered, point-of-care clinical decision support services and a desktop-based workflow tool to track, monitor, coordinate and report on patient health outcomes; and
• Smartphone and online appointment setting and pre-registration services for patients through iTriage, one of the most downloaded health and fitness apps in both the iTunes® App store and Android™ Market.

“In order to succeed in the delivery of high quality, high experience, affordable care, we must integrate clinical activities across the patient’s continuum of care. This requires data sharing among our providers, and the workflow integration that can result,” said Dr. Tricia Nguyen, Chief Medical Officer for Banner Health Network. “Actionable data is the currency for change in healthcare.”

“Today’s traditional electronic medical records have limited value in providing the level of clinical insights needed to succeed in accountable care organizations,” said Charles Kennedy, MD, chief executive officer for Aetna Accountable Care Solutions. “Aetna technologies marry clinical and claim information to create a broader patient record available to the entire care team. Then we bring evidence-based intelligence, workflow tools and care management services to help physicians monitor, measure, coordinate and improve patient care.”

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