Corrie is an evidenced-based digital health program that has been evaluated in the Myocardial Infarction, COmbined-device, Recovery Enhancement MiCORE Study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03760796) at 4 hospitals and was shown to reduce risk of 30-day readmission, improve patient experience, and create cost-savings. Corrie is a prescription strength virtual care program that consists of a smartphone application paired with a smartwatch and bluetooth blood pressure cuff. Key features of Corrie include 1) tracking and reminders for cardiac medications; 2) monitoring BP with an Food and Drug Administration–approved wireless BP cuff; 3) promoting exercise, physical activity, step tracking, via a smartwatch 4) providing peer-reviewed educational videos and articles on diet, medications, and how to prevent CVD/hypertension/dyslipidemia/glucose intolerance through lifestyle modification; 5) reviewing patient reported data through a check-up feature that allows patients to send health summary reports of physical activity and vitals to clinicians; and 6) connecting with providers and addressing social determinants of health services to optimize guideline-directed evidence-based care. In the era of COVID-19 and beyond the Corrie program is a technology-enhanced patient experience that provides the fundamental care components, data collection, and support for optimal cardiac recovery.

Helping to solve one of the largest problems facing global healthcare, we are fortunate to have a Johns Hopkins team that has been intensively working in digital health technology and leading the world in its development, evaluation, and integration with healthcare delivery. The Corrie Health® Platform is the culmination of 4 years of cross-university teamwork and research at Johns Hopkins to improve evidenced-based care at Johns Hopkins and across the country. Corrie (“Cor” is Latin for heart) was created by an interdisciplinary team of Johns Hopkins cardiologists, internists, nurses, engineers, Armstrong patient safety and quality improvement leaders, and behavioral health specialists, in partnership with Apple designers and patients to improve cardiovascular prevention. Corrie’s intuitive user interface was built in close collaboration with engineers and designers at Apple to empower patients in self-management, and is now available on Android as well. At its core, the Corrie Health® Digital Platform is a smartphone application driving self-management of medications, vitals, activity, and care coordination connected to cooperative sensors including a smartwatch and wireless blood pressure cuff. The Corrie Cloud securely stores data metrics and vitals from the app to make them accessible within the upcoming Corrie Portal where real-time data analysis is performed to detect digital biomarkers and activate external actions via the Corrie Decision Engine. This will trigger near real-time alerts on Corrie Care for providers, care companions, and pharmacists so they can respond in a timely fashion to risk signals detected from changes in the patient’s clinical status. Corrie Health® is the intersection of enhanced patient engagement, data analytics targeting digital biomarkers, and remote monitoring working together to reduce hospital readmissions and promote personalized, cost-effective care. The Corrie Care app and the Corrie Portal will initially be available as a technology preview and grow in features as we continue to gather feedback. Corrie Health® offers major value to Hospitals by providing a clinically validated digital health platform deployed in the acute care setting. The Corrie Myocardial infarction, COmbined-device, Recovery Enhancement (MiCORE) Study examined whether using the Corrie Health Digital Platform could reduce all-cause, unplanned 30-day hospital readmissions and related healthcare costs for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients as compared to a historical comparison group. The study was carried out at two leading academic hospitals, Massachusetts General and Johns Hopkins, and two community hospitals, Reading Health System and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Corrie was the intervention in the study that served as a self-management digital health program to support guideline-directed care including: 1) medication adherence, 2) vitals monitoring, 3) peer-reviewed education, 4) physical activity, 5) follow-up appointment tracking, and 6) connection with clinicians. From October 1, 2016 to April 14, 2019, 200 English-speaking adults diagnosed with Type I AMI who owned a smartphone were enrolled across four hospitals in the United States. Patients received Corrie as early as possible in their hospitalization and were encouraged to use it during the hospitalization through 30 days post-hospital discharge. The historical comparison group consisted of 864 adults who were admitted between October 2015-2016 with STEMI or NSTEMI from these study hospitals. The final results are under review but showed: ● Major reduction in risk of 30-day all cause readmission compared to the historical control group ● Significant cost savings per patient compared to standard of care alone for a hospital and increased quality of life years. [Based on the assumption that Corrie costs $3,000 per patient. Cost savings is per hospital based on savings from readmission reduction] ● Majority of Corrie users felt confident managing medications, follow-up appointments, and home care at 30 days

Advanced Care - in-home hospital alternative 

 

DispatchHealth provides hospital-level care in the comfort of a patient’s home. Such patients typically present with general medical conditions that could otherwise result in a hospital admission. DispatchHealth calls this hospital alternative service Advanced Care. Advanced Care reduces unnecessary and costly hospital stays, which improves hospital capacity and throughput while producing superior outcomes for the patient. 

Create "Virtual Bed” revenue & inpatient capacity.

Care team: Our Advanced Care team is led by a hospitalist physician and supported by a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, 24/7 nurse command center and other caregivers (RNs, PT/OT partners) as needed. 

Our in-home hospital alternative care solution, Advanced Care, provides qualifying adult patients with advance medical care, social support, and 24/7 monitoring up to 30-days—all within the comfort of home. 

 

DispatchHealth’s Advanced Care program can help you: 

- Decrease inpatient hospital admissions and improve hospital system capacity 

- Reduce unnecessary ER visits, SNF stays, and ancillary service utilization 

- Drive significant medical cost savings including reduction in 30-day readmission rates 

- Improve health outcomes and achieve unparalleled patient satisfaction 

- Support the Acute Hospital Care at Home CMS waiver program 

- Enable community providers to directly admit patients 

Learn more here: DispatchHealth.com/AdvancedCare

DispatchHealth delivers care across the healthcare continuum to keep patients healthy at 

home—from caring for the highest acuity patients with urgent or hospital level needs to supporting transitions of care and ongoing management of chronic conditions—we believe home is where your health is.

DispatchHealth was founded in 2013 to create an integrated, convenient, high touch, care delivery solution that extends the capabilities of a patient’s care team and provides definitive, quality care in the home while decreasing costs. Currently, DispatchHealth serves patients in markets across the US and is poised for continued rapid growth to meet consumer demand.

Partnering with DispatchHealth puts the power of a complete system of in-home care at your fingertips, ready to deploy where and when you want it.

DispatchHealth works closely with health systems, payers, providers, and others to deliver care in the home to help address capacity constraints at brick and mortar facilities, as well reducing medical costs in at-risk/VBC populations through ED, Inpatient, 911 and Observation diversions.

Medical teams are available during the day and also on weekends, evenings and holidays, and can be requested via online, over the phone, or through care coordination referral. DispatchHealth is contracted with most major insurance companies and accepts Medicare and Medicaid.

To learn more about how DispatchHealth can help your health system reduce the total cost of care, improve clinical outcomes, and delight patients by moving high-acuity care into the home visit: https://www.dispatchhealth.com/partners/

Scalability: We have the proven ability to scale our programs as we have done so for the past 8+ years across the country. With our employed provider group, extensive capabilities, and technology platform.

On-Scene Provider Care: Ability to treat medically complex patients safely with exceptional outcomes, such as 0% for Unexpected Mortality, Serious Safety Events and SNF Admit Rate.  

Ability to Handle 15 or 30 Day Episodes:Allows us to treat patients beyond just their illness, leveraging the amount of time we spend in the home time to bring more value to partners (i.e. attestation, SDOH, Goals of Care, etc.) 

Highest Risk Patients for True Inpatient Replacement: 95% of Admitted Patients Have an Average Charlson Comorbidity Score >5 (highest risk group). Meaning complex patients can be safely treated in the home, freeing up valuable capacity and resources at health systems for higher margin DRG’s.

High Patient Acceptance Rate: Drives more admissions based on the trust we build with patients and their families, resulting in more utilization of program

Payor Relationships: Proven experience contracting with both national and local payors, providing health system partners confidence in long term value potential