The Hindu Business Line : Wipro unveils programme for US health plans

Wipro Technologies and HealthSciences Institute on Wednesday announced the launch of "Accelerated Practice Improvement'' service for the US health plans market.

The service is designed to assist health plans in the US and implement Pay-for-Performance Incentive (P4P) programmes for primary & speciality care physician practices.

Dr Blake Andersen, President and CEO, HealthSciences Institute and Chronic Care Group, said, "By partnering with a global services leader such as Wipro, we have created a customisable, scalable, cost-effective process and an integrated delivery platform for systematically assessing gaps and supporting physician practice performance improvement. To date, there's been strong interest for both health plans and pay for performance programmes in the US."

Accelerating Practice Improvement features a set of tools, knowledgebase and frameworks that would help health plans assess the physician groups' adoption of KPIs, benchmark the same, implement improvement frameworks and guidelines of organisations such as Institute of Medicine, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, and Bridges to Excellence along with evidence on top performing physician practices.

Mr Susheel Ladwa, Practice Leader for Healthcare - North America, Wipro Technologies, said: "With the rising medical costs in US and the increasing need for better outcomes, pay-for-performance is here to stay, and health plans need a scalable, transportable platform that would enable them effectively manage the programme across primary and speciality care physicians. And clearly, this framework and technology extends itself to the care delivery networks as well."

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