Altitude

Altitude (legal entity Altitude Cares Inc.) markets a "clinician-level execution platform" aimed at chronic condition management in primary care. The product is positioned as a force multiplier that gives generalist clinicians specialist-level capability before, during, and after patient visits, surfacing context-aware, evidence-linked next-best actions (for example, titrating a statin dose and reordering a lipid panel) that a clinician can approve or reject within their existing workflow. It also captures encounter intelligence and provides supervisory dashboards for clinical leaders, showing per-provider panel size, share of uncontrolled patients, and days-to-control, as well as breakdowns of uncontrolled patients by condition such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, CHF, CKD, and hyperlipidemia.

A second component is a "clinical action layer" that executes follow-through between visits: patient outreach, scheduling, refills, lab orders, and specialist referrals, with the customer's care team retaining clinical command. Altitude additionally operates a physician-supervised virtual medical group whose clinicians work on the same platform, offering continuous chronic condition management, closure of referral and lab loops, and transitional or post-discharge care on the customer organization's behalf. Targeted condition areas listed include hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, high cholesterol, COPD, asthma, depression, anxiety, morbid obesity, and chronic kidney disease, tied to customer financial priorities such as HCC/CDPS risk adjustment, STARS/quality performance, referral patterns, medication adherence, and total cost of care.

Business model

Altitude sells software plus clinical services to provider organizations: a platform layer for clinicians and clinical leaders, an action layer that executes administrative and clinical follow-through, and an affiliated physician-supervised virtual medical group that delivers care on behalf of the customer. The company markets return on investment to providers through higher visit volumes, lower operating expense, and improved performance on quality and risk-based contracts.

Traction

Company-published case examples cite 3x faster time to control for one clinician in hypertension medication management at a Rhode Island primary care organization, more than 5,000 clinical actions in accelerating heart failure diagnosis and management at a rural North Carolina organization, and a modeled 5x ROI opportunity across 50 clinicians at a West Virginia-based organization. The site also claims a reduction in total care team time to outcome from 2 hours 50 minutes under usual care to 25 minutes, and a 4.6x provider ROI in an impact model it says was verified by Havarti Risk.

Latest developments

The website references "Altitude x CMS Access" and a "Now Available On" section, alongside a testimonial from David Gellis, CEO of Arches Medical Rhode Island.