“Although we had implemented fitness challenges before on a smaller scale, we needed a solution that we could deploy to more than 75,000 employees across our various locations and business segments. The ShapeUp social wellness platform was a turnkey solution that enabled us to quickly roll out a fitness challenge …

"One of the ways that we’ve been able to have such success in our clinical research program is utilizing the Optum One platform. It improves patient engagement and satisfaction. It reduces the cost of care. It’s demonstrated to improve outcomes."

“With Optum One’s Population Analytics, we have a better understanding of the clinical complexity of the patients we serve and the ability to manage to a common standard for Billings Clinic. What we are learning about population health management in hypertension will guide our efforts in ratcheting up the effective …

"The Optum solution gave us reliable data to find a state error, saving our corporation $20 million dollars annually."

“The fact that it (SF-8 Health Survey) is brief, standardized and scientifically valid is very good.”

"Optum has the best clinical programs in the industry. They are light years ahead of other providers that can provide this type of service."

“It is vital that we remain an independent practice because we are the cornerstone of our community medical system. Independent practices like PPCP ensure that patients are the ones driving demand for services.”

“Optum definitely has the data and the technology to help us clinically and financially model our risk; that’s something that can make us more sophisticated. We can be at the forefront of changing the delivery of health care.”

“I have always believed the key to our success in managing risk successfully is by creating a culture of providercentric coordinated care.”

"Our workflow is more cohesive. The Optum platform makes it possible for us to work more closely with the CDI team, emergency department and our physicians."

"Optum isn’t just a vendor; they really partner with us to identify opportunities to improve operations that we wouldn’t have identified otherwise. We’re far more successful because of their partnership."

“We had developed best-in-class tools prior to our Optum affiliation, but Optum has taken us to a whole new level.”

“The question we asked ourselves about ACOs was, ‘If not us, who?’ We really felt like the capabilities we had been honing over the last 20 years put us in a good position in this arena.”

"The point of the Beacon Program in general, and specifically this telemonitoring pilot, is to improve outcomes. If we can reduce the number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations by 5%, this will be a success both from a patient health and a cost of care perspective."

“By partnering with Catholic Health Home Care Services and Kaleida’s Visiting Nurses Association to structure this pilot program, we designed a telemonitoring service that has a minimal impact for the treating physicians and a maximum impact for the community.”