Froedtert & MCW Health Network Integrates Digital Platform to Promote Pharmaceutical Nutrition Program to Patients and Employees.

Integrating the Season Health nutrition program into the Xealth digital health platform streamlines provider referral flows, increases access and improves outcomes.

MILWAUKEE and SEATTLE, Oct. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Xealtha leader in enabling digital health at scale, today announced that Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is a health network using its digital health platform to engage selected individuals with Season Healthleading provider of clinical nutrition. Through the Xealth digital health platform, Froedtert & MCW will provide real-time nutrition services to employees and patients, starting with a focus on patients with diabetes. This partnership aims to improve clinical outcomes by integrating nutrition as an important part of chronic care.

“As a healthcare system, we are always looking for ways to connect our patients with the right tools to improve their lives,” said Bradley Crotty, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Inception Health, the operating arm of Inception Health. Froedtert & MCW health practice; and Associate Professor of Medicine, MCW. “Through the Season Health program, we want to make it easier for people living with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, to stay connected with their nutrition and care between appointments to improve their health, including and A1c and blood glucose levels. Adding it to our digital health platform makes it a seamless process for our clinical team and improves the program’s impact.”

The effects of chronic conditions can often be affected by diet. Seasonal programs include one-on-one, authentic, clinical nutrition therapy visits from Season’s network of Registered Dietitians, low-cost food and beverage delivery, programming and certified Diabetes Self Management and Education (DSME), and joint benefits bank. which supports patients in accessing food benefits supported by health plans and government programs. By connecting this program to the clinical report by Xealth, eligible patients are easily identified, without additional steps from the care team. Xealth facilitates service delivery, is from the Froedtert & MCW health network, and provides deep insight into program enrollment and engagement.

“It’s widely accepted that good nutrition makes chronic conditions difficult and that’s affected by a number of factors,” said Josh Hix, CEO and co-founder of Season. “Our work with Xealth is important for two reasons: it makes the referral process easier for Froedtert’s providers and it allows us to focus on and reach the patients we believe will benefit most from our care. Overall, this leads to increased access to quality nutrition services that complement the care patients receive from their Froedtert care team.”

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The health program of Froedtert & MCW has been using the Xealth digital health platform, integrated with its EHR system, since the beginning of 2018. Time is 11.^th digital health partner that the health system has added to this platform, which covers various clinical areas, including mental health, pregnancy, diabetes and others.

“Digital programs measure clinical resources and can improve patient outcomes by engaging them in their care between appointments, especially in areas that require daily decisions, such as nutrition,” the said Mike McSherry, CEO and co-founder of Xealth. “By leveraging Xealth’s integrated platform for its digital health programs, including Season Health, Froedtert & MCW’s health network amplifies the impact of these initiatives on more patients relatively unsustainable for medical providers.”

Xealth is the driving force behind digital health programs at many of the nation’s largest health systems, bringing digital health vendors, programs, treatments and tools into clinical and patient practice. Combined with the company’s custom data and analytics, health systems can track, analyze and evaluate everything with their digital health integration platform .

About The Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network is a partnership between Froedtert Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin that supports a shared mission of patient care, innovation, clinical research and education. Our health network serves eastern Wisconsin’s only academic medical center and the Adult Level I Trauma Center at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, a world-renowned training and research center dedicated to testing and thousands of medical courses. The Froedtert & MCW health network, which includes 10 hospital locations, more than 2,300 physicians and more than 45 health centers and clinics, attracts patients throughout the Midwest and the country. In our most recent fiscal year, outpatient visits were over 1.6 million, inpatient admissions at our hospitals were over 57,500 and visits to our network doctors were over a million 1.28.

About the Life of Time
Season Health is a national practice of Registered Dietitians; Our providers are powered by Season Health’s technology platform, which supports our patients with prescription nutrition, hundreds of thousands of healthy food and grocery options (all of which can be delivered directly to their homes ) and the joint Benefit Bank, which supports patients. getting the benefits of a health plan that supports a healthy diet. Time partners with leading health systems nationwide as an extension of their care teams, serving as integrated, comprehensive outpatient nutrition. By increasing access to long-term nutritional care, time systems have improved clinical and quality outcomes, while increasing patient engagement within the health system. Learn more at www.seasonhealth.com

About Xealth
Xealth scales digital health programs, enabling physicians to integrate, deliver and monitor digital health tools for patients to drive engagement and usage. With Xealth’s secure platform, nurses can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients directly from the EHR workflow, sending these health orders to the patient’s email or patient portal, then they monitor the process. Xealth came from Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) in 2017, and funding includes Advocate Aurora Enterprises, Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic, MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Cerner, McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, and ResMed as well as Providence Ventures, UPMC. and Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network.

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