VTOC Selected for National Health Equity Initiative

Visiontree, a leader in cloud-based, patient-reported outcomes, patient engagement, population health and multi-center research/registry solutions, is pleased to announce that the Visiontree Optimal Care™ (VTOC) platform has been selected by Americares, Loyola University and the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics for its Roadmap to Health Equity initiative. VTOC will be used as a national data repository to collect patient-level outcomes and process quality measures data across an estimated 1,400 free and charitable clinics (“FCC”) nationwide. Collectively, the FCC network provides approximately 5 million healthcare visits for nearly 2 million patients with a support of 8 million volunteer hours each year.

The health equity initiative is a joint project of Americares, the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics and Loyola University Chicago in collaboration with state clinic associations and clinic leaders across the country. The multi-year initiative aims to track patient outcomes and measure quality of care at free and charitable in the U.S. The goal of the repository is to enable clinics to increase capacity, improve health outcomes, build academic evidence and strengthen advocacy for funding and community support.

The proposed data repository will contain data on patient and clinic demographics as well as patient-level health outcomes. Initially, clinics will report up to fifteen (15) quality measures and five (5) sociodemographic factors. It is envisioned that clinics utilizing an EMR with reporting capacities may submit whole patient population data, while those clinics that are paper based or using a lower-capacity EMR will submit data from a randomized set of 70 patients through mandated evidenced-based sampling methodologies. Participation in reporting quality measures is voluntary.

The initiative’s larger purpose is to provide FCCs with the means and opportunity to enhance their quality of care in their pursuit of health equity. Participating clinics will be able to view their data using VTOC’s V2 for Value-Based Care on FHIR reporting tools. Clinics can also utilize benchmarking dashboards to track their progress over time and against their peers.

Implemented at 400+ oncology programs and 600+ sites globally, including more than 10 thought leading centers in the Asia Pacific region, as well as 17 of the top 20 U.S. News and World Report Hospitals, the VTOC platform provides a seamless solution for longitudinal, electronic patient reported outcomes (ePROs) data collection. VTOC delivers automated reporting of this electronic quality of life data at specified time points as actionable data to, as well as reporting to multi-institutional research and registry initiatives, including export to the Medidata Rave®, the database for NCI’s National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN), as well as the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR). VTOC’s interoperability solutions includes its ePROs API suite for patient reported outcomes integrated with existing patient portals supporting HL7 and Web-service interfaces for quality data import from EHR/OIS and all clinical systems.

With over a decade in clinical use, VTOC has documented improvements in patient care and clinical workflow; including up to 20% reduction in non-urgent phone calls, up to 30% improvement in missed appointments, over 30% increased patient satisfaction, and over 40% improved compliance for capturing longitudinal PROMs. VTOC helps providers in delivering risk-adjusted outcomes data, on an individual patient or an aggregate level, for an optimized delivery of quality and efficiency in on-going patient care through outcomes tracking, actionable alerts and global benchmarking.

Americares is a global, health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. In the U.S., Americares provides medicine, supplies, education and training to a network of more than 1,000 partner clinics nationwide serving 7 million patients. Americares U.S. Program helps partner clinics increase capacity, provide comprehensive care, improve health outcomes and reduce costs for patients.