ProMedica, a Toledo, Ohio-based integrated healthcare system, is partnering with data analytics company Socially Determined to create a “data nerve center” to help it evaluate and respond to the connection between social and economic factors and health.
ProMedica serves communities in 28 states. The organization offers acute and ambulatory care, an insurance company with a dental plan, and post-acute and academic business lines. The organization has more than 56,000 employees, 13 hospitals, and nearly 400 assisted living facilities, skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, memory care communities, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and hospice and home health care agencies.
By integrating ProMedica's data structures with Socially Determined's analytic capabilities, the organization said that the Ebeid Data Nerve Center would focus on the needs of specific patient cohorts that could benefit from standardized interventions designed to improve healthcare outcomes. The goal is to create an innovative model of precision population health and a reduction in overall cost.
The Ebeid Data Nerve Center will serve as a "single pane of glass" through which ProMedica can unify research, analysis, and operational excellence around social determinants.
ProMedica also joined four other organizations in supporting Series 'A' funding of $7.3 million for Socially Determined.
"Addressing the social determinants of health is one of the leading disruptions in health care, and we must begin to use data analytics to drive the innovation and quantify impact," said Randy Oostra, president and CEO of ProMedica in a statement. "Socially Determined links clinical, claims and community data to allow for meaningful action and to support reimbursement for interventions, such as food, housing and transportation."
