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06-May-2021

Oak Street Health Wins “EHR Innovation Award” in 2021 MedTech Breakthrough Awards

Value-Based Primary Care Leader Awarded for Proprietary Technology Platform, Canopy

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--  Oak Street Health, Inc. (NYSE: OSH, or the “Company”), a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare, today announced that it has been selected as a winner in the fifth annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards, winning the EHR Innovation Award in the Electronic Health Records category.


Oak Street Health is recognized with the EHR Innovation Award for its proprietary technology platform, Canopy, which helps drive success of the Company’s value-based care model. Canopy underlies every aspect of Oak Street Health’s day-to-day clinical and operational workflows, allowing care teams to tailor care plans to the needs of both the patient and the business. Built on top of a cutting-edge tech stack, Canopy delivers context-rich, intuitive experiences that put the right insights in front of care teams at the right time.

“Canopy was built from the ground-up to enable our care teams to provide an unmatched patient experience and top-quality care without the administrative burden of traditional healthcare technology,” said Colton Ortolf, Senior Director of Product of Oak Street Health. “Canopy's deep integration with our clinical workflows allows us to surface targeted insights at the point of care, which help our teams better manage the care provided to our patients whose needs extend far beyond what can be provided in a traditional visit with their physician. Winning the EHR Innovation Award in this year’s MedTech Breakthrough Awards is validation of the role Canopy plays in furthering our mission of rebuilding healthcare as it should be.”

Canopy integrates patient data across the continuum of care and leverages internally-developed machine learning models to provide actionable insights and drive workflows to accelerate operational efficiency and effective clinical management and oversight. Canopy’s leading technology stack makes use of modern architecture patterns, cloud-native distributed computing, stream processing and the latest in responsive web development tool sets to deliver a superior experience to care teams.

The mission of the MedTech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of health and medical technology categories, including Robotics, Clinical Administration, Telehealth, Patient Engagement, Electronic Health Records (EHR), mHealth, Medical Devices, Medical Data and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 3,850 nominations from over 17 countries throughout the world.

To learn more about Oak Street Health’s value-based primary care model, click here.

Source: Oak Street Health

About Oak Street Health

Founded in 2012, Oak Street Health is a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare. With a mission of rebuilding healthcare as it should be, the Company operates an innovative healthcare model focused on quality of care over volume of services, and assumes the full financial risk of its patients. Oak Street Health currently operates more than 80 centers across 13 states. To learn more about Oak Street Health’s proven approach to care, visit oakstreethealth.com.


Contacts

Media Contact:
Erica Frank
Vice President of Public Relations
(330) 990-5026
Erica.Frank@oakstreethealth.com

Investor Contact:
Kevin Ellich
Westwicke
(443) 450-4186
kevin.ellich@westwicke.com

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Last Updated: 06-May-2021