Option Care Health Expands Partnership With WellSky to Accelerate Innovation in Home and Ambulatory Infusion Technology

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WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company announced it is significantly expanding its partnership with Option Care Health Inc., the nation’s largest independent provider of home and alternate site infusion services. Option Care Health will collaborate with WellSky to accelerate innovations and workflow enhancements within WellSky’s infusion and specialty pharmacy platform, CareTend®, and will implement the software across its more than 160 Option Care Health locations.

As a leader in the infusion therapy space, Option Care Health provides innovative services with the goal of improving outcomes and reducing costs for patients and their families. The partnership with WellSky will support this effort by bringing new capabilities to the CareTend platform, including innovative new workflows for clinical practice that incorporate automation, integrated clinical decision support, mobile extensibility, and native interoperability.

“Our decision to select WellSky’s CareTend as our go-forward platform was pivotal to our core value of delivering comprehensive infusion care resulting in greater operating efficiencies and higher patient satisfaction,” said John C. Rademacher, president and chief executive officer of Option Care Health. “Expanding our partnership with WellSky will help ensure we have the technology needed to improve our pharmacy operations and point of care oversight in either the home or one of our infusion suite operations, allowing us to deliver a cutting-edge care experience for even more patients.”

The partnership between WellSky and Option Care Health will allow both organizations to play a critical role in advancing the technologies that drive infusion and specialty pharmacy operations in the pursuit of better outcomes at lower costs.

“WellSky is thrilled that our technology development efforts will be influenced by one of the largest and most respected providers in the infusion therapy space,” said WellSky CEO Bill Miller. “Our continued collaboration with Option Care Health further strengthens WellSky’s ability to deliver software built for more personalized, connected care.”

Option Care Health and WellSky have been working together for more than a decade to improve health outcomes. Most recently, the two companies joined forces on an effort to promote interoperability across platforms and enable better care coordination.