Intermountain Health has expanded its partnership with CareCentra, Inc., to include remote monitoring for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and adult asthma.

This initiative is designed to detect symptom exacerbation early and intervene promptly.

CareCentra's prevention-as-a-service platform will now use data points and biometrics from digital devices, combined with patient-reported information and proprietary algorithms, to monitor risk indicators.

The AI system responds to early risk signals by coaching patients on inhalation techniques, alerting them to environmental risks, addressing medication adherence barriers, and encouraging lifestyle changes to improve outcomes.

When the AI detects a high risk of exacerbation that cannot be managed through behavioral changes alone, it alerts the Pulmonary Disease Navigator team, composed of registered respiratory therapists.

This team coordinates with the patient’s primary care provider for intervention, ensuring 24/7 connectivity within the care team.

Intermountain Health, recognized for its innovation in healthcare, recently received the 2023 HIMSS Davies Award for its Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), which successfully reduced 30-day COPD readmissions by 11.2% through the use of Pulmonary Disease Navigators (PDNs).

The CareCentra platform enables Intermountain Health to scale this initiative to approximately 300,000 COPD and adult asthma patients across its 33 hospitals and 385 clinics.

Highlighted the use of digital health approaches combining behavior science with AI/Machine Learning (ML) models to manage patient risk at home effectively.

While technology enhances efficiency, it complements rather than replaces the human element of care.

The CareCentra platform facilitates near real-time remote patient monitoring (RPM) by capturing data from various sources and devices, including expiratory flow rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, heart rate, and more.

"check engine" light that helps keep patients out of the hospital. Intermountain Health and CareCentra's long-standing collaboration has spanned nearly a decade, with successful applications in cardiovascular disease, heart failure, diabetes, maternal fetal medicine, and now respiratory care.

Intermountain Health believes that through technology, it can offer high-touch, personalized care in the most convenient and accessible way possible for chronic lung patients.








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