Wipro launches cloud based next-gen care management solution for US healthcare market

BANGALORE, INDIA: Wipro Technologies announced the launch of its NextGen Care Management solution for the US healthcare market, specifically aimed at primary care physicians and healthcare providers.

The objectives of the Wipro solution are aligned with the United States’ Medical Home and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program to enable personalized, affordable and quality care. Wipro’s NextGen Care Management solution enables physicians to drive patient participation in devising a personalized care plan with defined care goals, treatment plan and health improvement activities.

Wipro’s application is built on Force.com, salesforce.com’s social enterprise platform for employee facing social apps and, is uniquely positioned as a cloud based care management services and adopts the core principles of patient centricity, coordinated healthcare, interoperability, mobility, and outcome to better manage chronic, post-acute and elderly patient population.

General physicians and specialists can now experience continuity of information through a longitudinal view of patient’s medical history, assessment and clinical reports. Primary care physicians and specialists can also form Medical Care panels, online, to be deeply engaged with the patients to maintain long term relationships and facilitate care across the continuum.

The built-in collaboration platform in the solution uses tools such as sms, chat, alerts, reminders, activity workflows and helps in reducing cost by avoiding treatment overlaps, multiple clinical tests or hospitalization. The solution’s compatibility with devices such as smartphones, tablet PCs and integration with remote patient monitoring devices ensure access to patient medical records at the point of care, for proactive and preventive care delivery. Wipro’s solution provides performance analytics to help in developing an outcome driven and quality focused healthcare culture.

With the Obama Care act expanding healthcare coverage to an additional 32 million Americans, healthcare payers (insurance companies) and providers have to manage a huge influx of new members – an 81 percent growth, into the system. As a result, the payers and providers will need to go through a major IT transformation, through annual IT investments worth $3-5 billion, to handle this massive change and in order to provide high quality, affordable healthcare.