Becker's Hospital Review

147 FINANCE CMO / CARE DELIVERY Lyft, Allscripts partnership aims to make it easier for patients to make medical appointments: 6 things to know By Kelly Gooch A llscripts and ridesharing company Ly are teaming up to help patients find nonemergency transportation to and from their medical appointments. Here are six things to know. 1. e partnership will allow 45,000 physician practices, 180,000 physicians and 2,500 hospitals to request Ly rides for patients, according to a news release. 2. is will be possible through the integration of Ly's proprietary application programming interface and the Allscripts Open platform into the Allscripts Sunrise EHR. rough the EHR, an automated workflow would schedule a Ly for the patient. Providers and other care team members will be able to see real-time notifications of patient pickup, estimated time of arrival and arrival, according to the companies. 3. A total of 3.6 million Americans are not able to get to a medical appointment due to transportation issues, according to a report published by the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. is can create mounting healthcare expenses. But the company said its partnership with Allscripts will help move Ly one step closer to its goal of cutting those numbers in half by 2020. 4. Gyre Renwick, vice president of Ly Business, said in a statement: "rough a seamless integration of Ly's API and Allscripts' EHR system, we're empowering clinicians to eliminate transportation barriers for millions of people across the country by making it easier to get to and from medical appointments with Ly." 5. Allscripts CEO Paul Black also expressed excitement about the partnership. "Our Open platform and vision for true interoperability enables us to work with a range of partners to deliver innovative solutions in all areas of care, and we feel it's our responsibility to provide tools to help consumers access care," he said in a statement. 6. In addition to the Allscripts collaboration, Ly also recently partnered with healthcare technology company Hitch Health for nonemergency medicaltransportation. Other Ly healthcare partners include Blue Cross Blue Shield, LogistiCare, St. Louis-based Ascension, Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, CareLinx and Circulation. n This donor wrote a $2M check to Le Bonheur Children's hospital to address community health issues By Alia Paavola M emphis, Tenn.-based Le Bonheur Chil- dren's Hospital received a $2 million gift from Trish Ring, PhD, and her husband Carl Ring, which will support the hospital's ongo- ing community health improvement efforts. For nearly 40 years, the hospital has deployed preventive strategies, made investments into healthcare programs and explored partnerships to improve children's health. The donation will go toward an endowment, dubbed the Trish Ring En- dowment, to ensure the viability of the hospital's community health programs. "I've worked with the hospital leadership for years, and I know that these professionals are committed to the well-being of children and families in our city and beyond. The superb work at Le Bonheur has a far-reaching, incredibly positive impact [on the community]," said Dr. Ring. n Cleveland Clinic adds 3 physicians to exec team By Anuja Vaidya C leveland Clinic promoted three physicians to its executive team March 7. Edmund Sabanegh, MD, will serve as hospital president of Cleveland Clinic's main campus. He has served in numerous leadership roles since he joined Cleveland Clinic in 2006, including associate chief of staff and urology department chairman. Cleveland Clinic selected James Young, MD, to serve as chief academic officer, leading its education and research mission. He previously served as executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; chairman of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute; and physician director of the Philanthropy Institute. The organization named Herbert Wiedemann, MD, chief of staff. Dr. Wiedemann has worked at Cleveland Clinic since 1984 and has served as chairman of the Respiratory Institute since 2007. He succeeds Brian Donley, MD, who was tapped to serve as CEO of Cleveland Clinic London. "While Cleveland Clinic is well-positioned for the future, it is clear that our organization has grown in scope and complexity and the executive team structure should evolve to meet our future needs," said Cleveland Clinic President and CEO Tom Mihaljevic, MD. n

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