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New breed of clinical provider using cutting-edge healthcare data, technology, insights, and patient relationship-building to solve the complex medication management equation: Cureatr

New breed of clinical provider using cutting-edge healthcare data, technology, insights, and patient relationship-building to solve the complex medication management equation: Cureatr

Cureatr help health plans, healthcare organizations, and patients make sure medications are taken appropriately, effectively, and most of all, safely. Getting patient medication regimens right is the single lowest-hanging fruit to drive better clinical and financial outcomes. Cureatr’s vision is a world where people who need medications can access and use them safely and effectively so that they can live long healthy lives in the real world rather than the hospital. Make the data and human connections that correct prescribing errors, mitigate adverse drug reactions, improve adherence, and reduce readmissions — with no software, data, or clinical workflow integration needed. Cureatr Clinic takes care of it all. HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification validates Cureatr is committed to meeting key regulations and protecting sensitive information. HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) certified status demonstrates that the organization’s Cureatr’s technology, processes, and controls have met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and are appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Cureatr in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification.

By including federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST Assurance Program helps organizations address security and data protection challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls. “At Cureatr, we are constantly evaluating and working to elevate our information security, data protection, and compliance processes," said Rob Dilling, Chief Financial Officer at Cureatr. By having Cureatr’s processes externally audited, this provides the opportunity to further compare itself to best practices across multiple security domains that are valued by its customer base. This HITRUST certification checks all those boxes and attests to the high quality of Cureatr’s risk management and compliance program.

Cureatr Core Values

Compassion & Empathy: Cureatr cares about each other, feel compassionate toward everyone, and have empathy for people – even when they disagree.

Honesty: Cureatr is honest and open because they want to help and be helped in identifying blind spots in their thinking.

Integrity: Cureatr has integrity in all things.

Innovation: The company is innovative - in product, in process, in each other, because fixing healthcare requires new ideas.

Fun: Cureatr has fun at work because they like each other and they choose to be happy.

Equity: The firm is actively anti-racist because equity in healthcare can only be achieved by transforming their professional structures, policies, and attitudes.

Why Cureatr’s here

Getting patient medication regimens right is the single lowest-hanging fruit to drive better clinical and financial outcomes. Cureatr’s vision is a world where people who need medications can access and use them safely and effectively so that they can live long healthy lives in the real world rather than the hospital.

The company’s clinical pharmacists combine unheard-of access to the world’s best prescribing and clinical databases with the power of human connection to reach more patients, reconcile more medications post-discharge, reduce readmissions, and improve quality.

Securely pass Cureatr a list of eligible patients and they’ll integrate with your EMR, HIEs, and national aggregators to monitor real-time prescription and healthcare utilization information. Their clinical pharmacists intervene with patients or their caregivers.

  • Discharged from an acute care stay, step-down unit, or ED visit
  • Identified with a suboptimal medication issue
  • Showing signs of an uncontrolled chronic disease
  • Missing a fill or with another medication-related quality gap

Connect Deeply and Engage Thoroughly

Cureatr Clinic’s residency-trained, board certified clinical pharmacists schedule telehealth appointments with patients and come armed with their histories so they can ask the right questions and get to the root of medication issues quickly, whether that be screening for SDOH and connecting to community resources, or connecting patients to plan programs to get their medications delivered right to their homes.

Manage Risk, Improve Security Posture, and Meet Compliance Requirements

“In today’s ever-changing threat landscape, HITRUST is continually innovating to find new and creative approaches to address challenges,” said Jeremy Huval, Chief Innovation Officer, HITRUST. "Cureatr’s HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification is evidence that they are at the forefront of industry best practices for information risk management and compliance.” Cureatr is the new breed of clinical, value-based provider: using expert clinical pharmacists, cutting-edge healthcare data, technology, insights, and patient relationship-building to solve the complex medication management equation, ultimately reducing cost of care and improving patient outcomes. Cureatr’s national medication management clinic is staffed by residency-trained and board-certified clinical pharmacists who work to combat suboptimal medication use, especially during those transitions of care where the most dangerous and costly mistakes are made.

Closing Transitions of Care Gaps

If hospitals hope to reduce readmissions, medication reconciliation post-discharge must be performed consistently. Any missed MRP increases the likelihood of a readmission. As with medication reconciliation, pharmacists are often in the best position to perform MRPs. For subsets of complicated patients, clinical pharmacists offer the best strategic approach to avoid complications and maximize patient benefit. Hospitals lacking staff that can perform medication reconciliation post-discharge for such complicated patients can partner with an organization like Cureatr and leverage its Cureatr Clinic team of board-certified, residency-trained clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. One random controlled trial at a 4-star hospital system showed that Cureatr was able to achieve a nearly 57% reduction in 30-day readmissions for congestive heart failure patients who received the company's MRP service.

What's particularly important about performing effective MRP, as Dr. Thai states, is going beyond med rec. "Sometimes when you hear the term MRP, you think the process only involves reviewing medications and making sure patients are taking them, which oftentimes is all that is done. At Cureatr, we are striving to do more than that. There are always more issues that the patient needs help with that either we can help resolve or at least find someone who can help. The MRP is really just a baseline of the service. All the other issues that come to the surface when we're talking to the patient allow us to set the patient up for success in managing not only their medication but their overall health."

Cureatr Clinic's clinical pharmacists are allocated the time they need to take a deep dive into a patient's medications and the other issues and factors that can make a difference in helping patients access the medications and support services they need. This leads to strengthened medication adherence, decreased readmissions and costs, boosted quality scores, and ultimately improved outcomes and financial performance.

Meet the leader behind the success of Cureatr

With over twenty years of experience delivering results for venture capital-backed SaaS companies, Richard Resnick leads Cureatr as its CEO. Before joining its team, Richard served as CEO of GQ Life Sciences, which he led to a successful acquisition by Aptean in 2016. As a respected healthcare industry thought leader, Richard speaks publicly on trends in technology. (Be sure to check out his TED Talk, “Welcome to the genomic revolution.”) Richard holds an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.S. in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

“Raise quality scores across HEDIS® and Star measures, decrease readmissions, and reduce total cost of care without workflow disruption.”


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