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“Virtual Pharmacist” introduced at Desert
Oasis Healthcare Improving chronic condition
treatment through Arine’s data science
technology
February 19, 2020 – Palm Springs and San
Francisco – Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC)
has entered into a multi-year commercial
partnership with Arine, a healthcare technology
company combining data science with clinical
expertise. Arine’s Virtual Pharmacist software
platform will be used to ensure DOHC patients
are on the safest and most effective medications
for their chronic conditions. Those conditions
currently include Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Heart Failure,
Cardiovascular conditions, and Diabetes.
The Virtual Pharmacist brings logic and
efficiency to a very complicated task for DOHC
clinical pharmacists who are members of
patient care teams in the Population Health and
Prescription Management Department. The
department is known internally and by patients
as PHARxM – pronounced “Farm.”
“This new tool presents a lot of complex
information in an easy-to-view, easy-tounderstand
dashboard so we can quickly focus
on important care decisions,” said Lindsey
Valenzuela, Administrator of PHARxM.
“The Virtual Pharmacist allows my team
of pharmacists to support DOHC nurses,
physicians and other care team members to
serve more patients, better and faster.”
Analyzing social, clinical and behavioral data
on an ongoing basis to pinpoint patient health
needs, the Virtual Pharmacist highlights
existing access issues and identifies dangerous
gaps in care. It then uses artificial intelligence
to generate tailored, evidence-based treatment
plans designed to improve health outcomes and
reduce costs.
Almost 90% of healthcare spending in the
United States is driven by patients with chronic
conditions, many of whom are treated with
chronic medications. Over $520B in annual
unnecessary spending can be directly tied to
negative clinical consequences of mismanaged
medications.
“This partnership and technology-enabled
approach will reduce the unnecessary costs
associated with non-optimized therapy,
especially for patients on multiple concurrent
medications. Most importantly, the Virtual
Pharmacist will help DOHC care teams scale
their impact to thousands of patients in the
desert communities of southern California,”
says Yoona Kim, CEO of Arine.
“The Virtual Pharmacist is like a highlycapable,
senior member of our patient care
team,” says Valenzuela. “It’s as if we’ve added a
new colleague whose sole purpose is to deliver
tailored, actionable recommendations to our
patients.”
About Desert Oasis Healthcare
Formed in 1981 as one of the first medical
groups in the desert communities of southern
California, Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC)
is an affiliate of the Heritage Provider Network
(HPN.) Today, HPN and its affiliated medical
groups make up one of the nation’s leading
physician-driven healthcare solutions
organizations.
For more information on Arine,
visit https://www.arine.io/.
For more information, Desert Oasis Healthcare
visit www.mydohc.com.
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