The new initiative marks the first major step to assist physicians and their practices to help physicians optimise their practice workflows, and support for better patient care

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Image: The initiative is expected to bring innovative workflow technology and services to physician practices. Photo: Courtesy of Silas Camargo Silão from Pixabay.

Altais has entered into collaboration with Aledade and the California Medical Association (CMA) to offer improved patient care model supported by advanced technologies.

Aledade is engaged in providing advanced technology and data analytics, user-friendly clinical and administrative workflows, and practice transformation support to more than 6,500 providers in 25 states.

CMA is a professional organisation founded in 1856, comprising more than 44,000 physicians across the state of California, and is a constituent organisation of the American Medical Association.

Altais said that the new initiative marks its first major step to assist physicians and their practices, to help physicians optimise their practice workflows, and support for better patient care.

Altais president and CEO Jeff Bailet said: “Physicians desire to reduce the administrative burden of practice using the latest high-tech tools and services so that they can better focus on their passion: caring for their patients. Altais will offer these innovative solutions.

“We’re thrilled that our first announced initiative is a collaboration to bring technology and services that will help physicians flourish under value-based arrangements, which are becoming a mainstay of modern healthcare.”

The collaboration envisages serving independent physicians in California

According to the company, the initiative is expected to bring innovative workflow technology and services to physician practices, and help doctors and their staff to deliver high-quality and affordable care.

The member organisations would also work with payers in the state to offer value-based arrangements that reward physicians for improved patient care and outcomes.

Blue Shield marks the first payer to support the collaboration by making a value-based agreement available to physicians working with Altais and Aledade sometime in 2020.

With the collaboration between Altais, Aledade, and CMA, physicians are provided with an opportunity to positively impact many more of their patients with the addition of value-based care arrangements for their commercially-insured population.

Aledade CEO and co-founder FarzadMostashari said: “Independent physicians contracting with Altais will benefit from our suite of innovative technology and population health management solutions. These tools, paired with the support of a leading payer and physician organization, will empower physicians to succeed in the new value-based health care system.”

CMA president David Aizuss said: “Value-based care is the future of health care as we move toward a system that rewards better patient outcomes instead of the volume of services. This partnership will help CMA in its mission to bring more common-sense reforms to our health care system and improve the lives of physicians and their patients.”