Astrana Health ranks among the rare breed of publicly traded digital health players that can actually turn a profit, so it’s worth paying attention to when they join forces with a company like Awell to push their advantage even further.
Astrana gives physicians the keys to value-based care by supplying the technologies and administrative services needed to succeed in risk-based arrangements.
- Once upon a time, Astrana got its start as “ApolloMed” and established itself as an innovator in the VBC-enablement space, particularly within Medicare Advantage.
- These days, Astrana is taking on financial risk for patient outcomes and creating a “constellation of quality care” to help providers meet quality metrics and manage cost of care.
Awell’s CareOps platform is a low-code editor that lets clinical and ops teams build workflows that embed into their existing tech stack, without requiring IT or engineering resources.
- Picture drag-and-drop building blocks tied together with if-this-then-that logic that you can use to create your ideal workflow. Oversimplification, but you get the gist.
- That allows orgs like Astrana to design and implement automated processes in a matter of days, giving them a unique advantage from an operational efficiency standpoint.
Scaling CareOps across Astrana’s extensive network will not only allow it to eliminate manual workflows and improve the experience of its providers and patients, but it will also accelerate the pace of future improvements by enabling it to adopt an agile development framework.
- Similar to the DevOps transformation that redefined the software industry, CareOps trades fragmented teams and lengthy deployment cycles for integrated dev/care teams and quicker software releases. (Here’s CareOps 101 for the uninitiated.)
- By breaking down the silos between clinicians and engineers, Awell empowers more of Astrana’s best and brightest to participate in the creation of the care processes that should ultimately deliver better patient outcomes.
The Takeaway
Healthcare is changing faster than ever before, and anyone looking to keep up is going to need a tech stack that’s as flexible as the challenges heading their way. Astrana and Awell are all-in on using CareOps to make that possible, and it’ll be exciting to keep an eye on their results as the partnership gets up to speed.
