Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) awarded California Department of Healthcare Services Innovation Award

RANCHO CUCAMONGA,  Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) was once lately awarded the prestigious California Department of Healthcare Services (DHCS) Innovation Award for 2020. The award used to be based totally on IEHP's groundbreaking work the use of region brain to attain high-risk contributors and companies in geographic areas affected by means of strength outages, wildfires, and different herbal disasters.

 

This is the fourth time the fitness sketch has acquired this honor—more instances than any different fitness format in California. In prior years, the fitness sketch obtained the Innovation Award for its forward-thinking efforts in growing the IEHP Housing Initiative (2018), BH Integration and Complex Care Initiative (2017), and the Transitional Care Project (2015).

"As a health plan, our quantity one precedence is helping our contributors and the communities we serve," stated Dr. Karen Hansberger, IEHP chief clinical officer. "In emergency conditions especially, we want to be in a position to preserve that support. Using this intelligence, we can rapidly discover and attain our high-risk participants and providers, join them to our multidisciplinary care teams, and aid in assembly their needs, which includes relocation to protected and steady environment."

To make this happen, IEHP partnered with geospatial science employer Esri to put into effect their vicinity brain project.

"We are so delighted for IEHP and the well-merited awareness bestowed on them by using prevailing this award. We be a part of in congratulating them for this super achievement," stated Dr. Este Geraghty, Esri chief clinical officer. "This acknowledgement is a testomony to IEHP's power to always innovate and enhance member results via place intelligence."

By masking information from nearby utilities, emergency response authorities, and IEHP's affected person records, the fitness diagram developed an utility that lets in frontline team of workers to discover member's properties and amenities that are in proximity of wildfire perimeters or strength shutoffs.

This functionality used to be a magnificent assist to the fitness layout in the course of the 2019 California Wildfires. Using this intelligence, the fitness design used to be in a position to monitor, relocate and help individuals who be counted on electrically primarily based long lasting clinical gear (such as ventilators), making sure continuity of care for members.

"It is without a doubt an honor to be identified for our modern efforts to higher serve and aid our contributors and communities," said Jarrod McNaughton, IEHP chief govt officer. "It's vital to us that we be reachable to our members, specifically when they want us most. We will end at nothing to fulfill that promise and we will proceed to actively adapt and evolve to exhibit up for our members, no count number the circumstance."