By OPEN MINDS Circle
Northern Light Health and Optum announced a strategic relationship to enhance the health care experience for consumers and provider organizations throughout Maine. As part of this relationship, select Northern Light Health employees will become part of Optum, providing them with new opportunities for growth and career advancement while they continue to support Northern Light Health.
Northern Light Health and Optum will work together to improve business processes through investment in leading-edge technology and innovation. This will enable Northern Light Health to access new tools and more resources that ultimately will enhance the consumer experience and enable providers to focus on consumer care.
Optum will manage revenue cycle management, information systems, inpatient care management, analytics, project management office and supply chain for Northern Light Health. Together, Northern Light Health and Optum will:
- Improve the scheduling and billing experience for consumers and provider organizations.
- Advance digital capabilities to improve the consumer and provider organization experience.
- Leverage new technology and tools to ensure consumers are getting the right care, at the right time, and in the right place.
- Use data and analytics to anticipate and respond directly to consumer, community, and staff needs.
Approximately 1,400 Northern Light Health employees will become employees of Optum beginning in March 2023. These employees will continue to support Northern Light Health and become part of the Optum workforce of 220,000 people with a mission to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone.
As part of Optum, these team members will have access to more state-of-the-art tools, technologies, processes, skills development training opportunities and new opportunities for advancement. Both Northern Light Health and Optum are committed to ensuring a smooth transition for these team members and to building an exceptional experience for consumers, provider organizations, and staff.
Northern Light Health is an integrated health delivery system serving Maine. With care teams in hospitals, primary and specialty care practices, long-term and home health care, and ground and air medical transport and emergency care, the organization is committed to improving lives of Maine residents.
Optum is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 220,000 people worldwide, Optum delivers intelligent, integrated solutions that help to modernize the health system and improve overall population health. Optum is part of UnitedHealth Group.
Contact information: Northern Light Health; 43 Whiting Hill Road, Brewer, Maine 04412; 207-973-7000; Website: https://northernlighthealth.org/
Contact information: Gwen Holliday, Media Relations, Optum, 11000 Optum Circle, Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344; 202-549-3429; Email: gwen.m.holliday@optum.com; Website: https://www.optum.com