This week, NeuroFlow announced that it has acquired a proprietary behavioral health analytics model developed at Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
According to the company, the transaction, in which the clinically validated model will be integrated with the NeuroFlow platform, enhances the company’s analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities and enables broader implementation of advanced risk assessment models.
The predictive complexity algorithm – first developed at Intermountain and developed and refined over the past decade – identifies relationships between combined data variables to guide decision-making regarding targeted risk and team-based treatment options and provide feedback on the effectiveness of ongoing interventions, supporting while tracking and assessing changes in patients’ condition.
“In primary care, many interdependent factors must be considered when determining mental and physical health and social care needs,” Tammer Attallah, LCSW, executive director of the clinical behavioral health program at Intermountain Health, said in a statement.
“Creating our standardized workflow assesses the complexity of these variables and provides collaborative decision support that identifies targeted, evidence-based resources for physical, mental and social health,” Attallah explained.
The model uses data available from sources including patient self-reports, disease registries, electronic health records and claims – using this information not only for stratification, but also to provide a more contextual and effective integrated, higher-quality flow of care.
NeuroFlow notes that patients are often overloaded with too many screening and assessment tools, and providers must integrate disparate data points, hindering patient-provider engagement and potential opportunities for shared decision-making. Intermountain’s model can aid improve behavioral health care processes with more reliable and relevant data.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Intermountain is a long-time leader in artificial intelligence and analytical innovations, such as AI-powered research to improve emergency room care, genAI to aid reduce physician workload, and a center to guide ethical implementation.
NeuroFlow’s latest agreement with the healthcare system is the result of a strategic collaboration announced last summer, and the two organizations said they would continue to collaborate on innovations in the risk complexity model.
NeuroFlow – which one acquired Owl, a behavioral assessment and measurement-based care company in 2024 – says it plans to make the model’s enhanced capabilities available to other customers later this year and to offer health care systems behavioral health intelligence tools to aid improve provider decision-making and patient outcomes.
ON RECORDING
“Intermountain’s proven clinical workflow model delivers high-functioning teams, an integrated mental and physical treatment plan, and the associated combination of focused team resources,” said Dr. Brenda Reiss-Brennan, senior advisor for mental health integration implementation science at Intermountain Health in statement. “This provides highly effective and efficient pathways to positive outcomes.”