Martin’s Point Health Care Selects Casenet’s TruCare™ 4.2 Software Suite
Innovative Health System Shares Casenet Vision for Total Population Health Management
Bedford, Mass., June 10, 2010 — Martin’s Point Health Care, a not-for-profit health care organization based in Portland, Maine, has selected the TruCare software suite from Casenet, Inc., a provider of innovative care management software solutions, to facilitate total population health management. The TruCare suite will give Martin’s Point the ability to offer employer groups and individuals innovative, cost-effective care programs that provide the highest standard of evidence-based care, including preventive care and wellness programs customized to meet the needs of specific population groups.
Using Casenet’s TruCare suite, Martin’s Point will pursue its vision for total population management, which focuses on in depth analysis of the needs of its entire insured life population, stratifying members into a spectrum of acuity levels and then deploying a wide range of interventions and care management services. As an integrated delivery network (IDN) that includes both a health plan and a provider network, Martin’s Point chose TruCare because it is designed specifically to support total population management with a high degree of automation, allowing Martin’s Point to intelligently deploy a wide range of customized health management programs in an extremely efficient manner.
“Casenet is a very natural fit for Martin’s Point, because the company truly shares our vision for taking a total population approach to care management,” said Duke Dufresne, M.D., Vice President, Medical Management, Martin’s Point Health Care. “Like many care management organizations, we are driving toward more holistic and member-centric approaches to care, such as building a strong medical home for our members and integrating health management with value-based benefits. For us, many of our members are our patients too, so we feel the need to take care management to the next level more acutely than many other organizations. With Casenet’s TruCare solution we will deliver highly efficient, evidence-based clinical programs focused on keeping our members happy and healthy and providing the very best care when they need it.”
Martin’s Point chose the TruCare suite as part of a broad overall managed care technology overhaul. Casenet’s TruCare software will be integral to Martin’s Point’s involvement in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) international healthcare improvement initiative called the Triple Aim. The project brings together more than 40 of the world’s leading healthcare organizations in an effort to devise and test strategies to simultaneously improve population health, enhance the patients’ experience of care and control health care costs, all of which are being achieved with the TruCare software.
Going forward, Martin’s Point plans to use the TruCare solution to support its efforts to double the size of its Medicare Advantage program and potentially expand into new lines of business. The organization also expects to use TruCare to continue to enhance its care program with deeper customization and targeted provider incentives tied to clinical milestones, to drive true provider buy in and give flexibility to offer financial incentives to members.
“Martin’s Point is one of a rapidly growing number of healthcare organizations that see an opportunity to leverage technology to provide better, more appropriate care and reduce costs at the same time, by taking a total population approach,” said Kevin Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Casenet. “We are seeing increasing demand for our TruCare solution because it is the only care management platform out there that can segment populations at a very fundamental level and apply specialized rules for each group. That basic capability allows the kind of rich, tailored benefit design and pervasive automation that makes it possible for Martin’s Point to achieve its vision today.”
About Martin’s Point Health Care
Martin’s Point Health Care is a not-for-profit regional health care provider operating nine health centers in Maine and New Hampshire. All are open to the community. Martin’s Point also administers the US Family Health Plan in Northern New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, as well as Medicare Advantage health plans and employer wellness and health management services in Maine. For more information, please visit http://www.martinspoint.org.