e-MDs, Lightbeam partner to provide affordable population health management solution

e-MDs, a leading provider of electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management (PM) solutions, today announced an agreement with Lightbeam Health Solutions, LLC to provide population health management (PHM) for e-MDs physician practices and healthcare enterprises.

The announcement was made at e-MDs' 10^th Annual User Conference and Symposium, which is drawing more than 750 physicians and practice administrators to the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Austin. The conference runs Thursday, June 5^th through Saturday, June 7^th.

"We are excited to announce this partnership with e-MDs," said Jerry Shultz, President of Lightbeam Health Solutions, "Lightbeam's synchronized enterprise data warehouse and risk stratification unravels the complexities of clinical and claims data from multiple sources. The predictive modeling will enable e-MDs providers to lower the cost of health care by identifying patients with avoidable high-cost events, and the care management capabilities allow timely interventions improving patient health."

e-MDs and Lightbeam together provide a comprehensive and affordable population health management solution already selected to power over 40 ACOs nationally. The unified platform consists of a tightly integrated set of modules that allow tailoring to meet the exact needs of organizations. Module capabilities include enterprise data warehouse, risk stratification, integrated analytics, care management, physician engagement and member engagement.

"e-MDs is pleased to work with Lightbeam Health Solutions, as they share our commitment for improving healthcare through the learned use of information technology," said David L. Winn, MD, FAAFP, Chairman of the Board and CEO at e-MDs. "Lightbeam's end-to-end population health management platform integrated with e-MDs at the point of care will have a tremendous impact on the ability of patients, payers and providers to improve outcomes."

The newly offered population health management solution provides out-of-the-box, secure exchange of data among all systems within a community (EHR, HIE, Lab and more). ACOs, provider groups, health systems and healthcare organizations who aspire to provide superior care to their patients at a reduced cost now have the ability to minimize upfront costs with a competitive monthly subscription that will accelerate their return on investment.