Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC), a member of Heritage Provider Network, and Wellth, an innovative Behavioral Economics company, announced a new collaboration to improve care plan adherence for individuals diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
Wellth partners with payers and risk-bearing provider groups to improve clinical outcomes and costs in their complex, comorbid, and previously nonadherent chronic disease populations. Using daily contextual nudges and rewards, Wellth has demonstrated 89% average daily adherence across all its members. Wellth members complete daily check-ins through Wellth’s easy-to-use smartphone app and receive financial incentives for verifying adherence to care plan behaviors such as taking medications or checking their blood sugar.
The new partnership between Desert Oasis Healthcare and Wellth will focus on improving adherence to medications and blood glucose monitoring while enhancing DOHC care team understanding of patient behaviors.
"Wellth’s relationship with Heritage Provider Network dates back to 2018 when we were humbled to win the Heritage Healthcare Innovator Award" said Matt Loper, CEO of Wellth. “We are so excited to deepen this partnership through our first Heritage implementation launch with Desert Oasis Healthcare."
“We have achieved exceptional results leveraging technology to manage difficult diabetic patients, exceeding a 91% diabetic control rate,” said Brian Hodgkins, PharmD and EVP of Clinical Operations at DOHC. “Improving even further requires a novel partnership between Wellth’s behavioral economic technology and our high touch, integrated model. That makes Wellth the right partner at the right time.”
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.
DOHC continues to advance with changes in the healthcare market, providing primary and immediate care, home health, palliative care, and other services to more than 60,000 members/patients living in the greater Coachella Valley and the Morongo Basin of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The multidisciplinary and comprehensive care programs of DOHC are committed to educating individuals on preventative health care in their daily lives, reflected in the DOHC motto, "Your Health. Your Life. Our Passion." For more information, visit www.mydohc.com.
About Wellth Inc.
Wellth is a digital behavior change company that motivates patients to adhere to their care plans using scalable, evidence-based strategies from behavioral economics. Our mission is to empower people living with chronic conditions to make healthy choices every day, driving better clinical outcomes and lower costs of care for health insurers and providers. Our advisory board includes former CEOs of the American Diabetes Association and American College of Cardiology, and we have been recognized with digital health innovation awards from the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, Heritage Provider Network, and Accenture. Wellth is based in both New York City and Los Angeles. For more information about Wellth, please visit the company's website at www.wellthapp.com.
