Unite Us Acquires Analytics Company Carrot Health
Unite Us, a company that connects healthcare providers and community-based organizations to address social determinants of health, has acquired Carrot Health, a health analytics company focused on removing barriers to health and optimizing care.
Unite Us said the combined company would be able to proactively identify and engage with clients across the community, and ensure they receive services from a coordinated network of thousands of community-based organizations.
Carrot Health says it has the nation's largest consumer and health data set, which powers more than 500 proprietary predictive models focused on improving health behaviors and outcomes. This will be added to Unite Us' national care coordination platform, prediction and enrollment capabilities, and payments products to reimburse community-based organizations for their impact.
Unite Us said its software and on-the-ground presence in the community, together with Carrot Health's person-centered analytics will enable organizations to provide wraparound care and invest in impact together, and address inequities to create new models of care that improve whole person health.
"Adding Carrot Health and its outstanding team to amplify our end-to-end solution combines the power of data analytics with our market-leading coordination platform and products," said Dan Brillman, co-founder and CEO of Unite Us, in a statement. "With our networks that truly track outcomes and address social factors, we will immediately enable our combined partner base of community-based organizations, governments, payers, and providers to accelerate their impact together, leveraging advanced analytics that improve health for their populations and communities."
Unite Us has developed partnerships with states, nonprofit organizations and large health systems including Kaiser Permanente. The Unite Louisiana uses the Unite Us technology platform to connect clinicians and social service providers to serve the health and social needs within communities and parishes statewide. Established in partnership with the Louisiana Association of United Ways and Louisiana 211, Unite Louisiana is currently in 14 parishes and growing. Since April 1, the network has grown by 70 percent. Unite Louisiana now extends into New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport with recently announced partnerships with CVS Health, Humana, and Ochsner Health. The Unite Louisiana network is also supported by Aetna Better Health of Louisiana and Louisiana Healthcare Connections.
The company said the SDOH tech movement must move beyond nationwide lists of resources and the unmet promises of closed-loop referrals with disconnected technologies, and siloed initiatives. The shift to value-based care models to reduce unnecessary healthcare utilization requires a close-knit network of accountable community-based organizations creating a new type of care team, fulfilling last-mile services, it says. This creates a 360-degree view of a client journey, and brings public and private sectors together to analyze and invest in the greatest impacts on health and communities.
