AristaMD, a telehealth solution platform that delivers specialist insight to primary care physicians, is cashing in, and has just closed a $24 million Series B funding round. Brooke LeVasseur, CEO of AristaMD, joined Cheddar to discuss the value of the AristaMD eConsult platform and the benefits of a telehealth solution for patients who need timely care and lack sufficient access, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the healthcare system, the ability to more efficiently coordinate and deliver specialty-informed care is critical towards freeing up the higher acuity settings for patients who need it most during the pandemic.
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eConsults Aid FQHC Reimbursement, Maintain NCQA Guidelines and Support the PCMH Model
A conversation with Dr. Kevin Ronan, Pediatrician and Senior Manager of Quality Assurance at Vista Community Clinic.
Learn more about how eConsults have provided valuable support for VCC in maintaining NCQA guidelines and aiding FQHC and PCMH mode of care reimbursement.
Q: Can you provide an overview of your role as Senior Manager of Quality Assurance at Vista Community Clinic (VCC) and how you have become involved with telehealth solution provider AristaMD?
As the Senior Manager of Quality Assurance at VCC, I am responsible for NCQA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program. One of their most important and highly scrutinized measures is how health systems are using data in terms of quality improvement and assessment.
Our intention is to be good stewards of our resources and to identify which help us to achieve quality measures (taking care of diabetes, etc.) in a financially responsible way. One of the things that we have realized, after seeing the referral and eConsult data from AristaMD, is that leveraging the AristaMD telehealth platform helped us to bend the cost curve through significant avoidance of in-person specialty referrals.
Doctors tend to be conservative, and some find it hard to embrace change, even when helpful. However, once clinicians started utilizing the platform to gain access to timely specialty care, it became hard to think of life without it.