Intermountain Health has been setting the national standard for value-based care for decades. Build EHR-integrated tools that earn a place in this exceptional clinical environment.
The Salt Lake City Healthcare Technology Challenge
Intermountain Health's integrated model — where the same organization provides clinical care, operates health insurance plans, and manages population health — creates healthcare technology requirements that are more sophisticated than typical health system deployments. Analytics must span clinical and claims data. Care management must work across ambulatory, inpatient, and post-acute settings. Quality programs must measure outcomes at the population level rather than the encounter level.
EHR Integration and Healthcare Platform Solutions
Epic Integration
Work inside the clinical workflow:
- SMART on FHIR apps: Native Epic-embedded apps that launch in clinical context with patient data pre-loaded
- CDS Hooks: Real-time clinical decision support triggered at order entry and documentation checkpoints
- Epic API integration: RESTful FHIR R4 data access for external applications consuming Epic clinical data
- ADT feeds: Real-time patient movement notifications for care coordination and alert management
Value-Based Care Analytics
Perform in risk contracts:
- Risk stratification: Patient risk scoring models combining clinical, claims, and social determinants data
- Care gap closure: Automated gap identification with outreach workflow and close-loop reporting
- Utilization management: ED, inpatient, and specialist utilization analytics with benchmark comparison
- Quality measure dashboards: HEDIS, MIPS, and Intermountain proprietary measure performance tracking
Patient Engagement
Keep patients active in their care:
- Chronic disease apps: Condition-specific patient apps for diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure management
- Care coordination: Post-discharge follow-up automation with appointment scheduling and medication reconciliation
- Preventive care outreach: Automated outreach for overdue screenings, immunizations, and wellness visits
- Health literacy tools: Plain-language health education content adapted for Utah's diverse patient demographics
Population Health
Manage health at scale:
- Panel management: Primary care panel analytics with workload distribution and care priority identification
- Community health: Social determinants screening with community resource referral and follow-up tracking
- Epidemiological tools: Population-level disease surveillance and public health reporting for Utah DHHS
- Outcomes registry: Condition-specific registry management with benchmark reporting and cohort analysis
Salt Lake City Healthcare Context
Utah's unusually young and healthy population — driven by the Latter-day Saint community's health-conscious culture — creates a patient cohort with different baseline health profiles than most markets. Combined with Intermountain's sophisticated value-based care infrastructure, this creates a healthcare technology environment where preventive care and population health tools can demonstrate meaningful outcomes more quickly than in markets with higher baseline disease burden.
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