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Welcome to Optum Ireland
Optum connects the brightest people, places and ideas across the health care ecosystem to create better care.
Making a difference to health outcomes
At Optum Ireland, we are proud to be a long-standing contributor to the Irish economy and community. We have been supporting global health care systems from Ireland for more than 20 years and employ nearly 1,600 people.
From our offices in Letterkenny and Dublin, we discover new ways to make a difference to people’s health across the world, through technology.
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Optum in Ireland
We’ve created a working culture at Optum Ireland that helps our team members to do their best work, offering chances to progress and develop their careers and promising interesting challenges.
Health is more than a national issue.
It's a human need.
It knows no borders, no boundaries.
We're a connected group
committed to modernising the health system
in a socially conscious way
for one person at a time.
The experience of a
sick person is the same
anywhere in the world, in
terms of the thought process
that you go through.
The human experience remains the same
at the centre of every story.
And it's about putting
yourself in their shoes.
People here naturally
want to make the connection
between the work that they
do and how that actually
impacts an individual,
making that story that
end-to-end solution.
That's where the excitement is.
Ireland traditionally
is known as the land
of saints and scholars.
We've had to find ways to
be distinctive in terms
of how we express ourselves.
And I think storytelling
is often the way that
we choose to do that.
All the problems globally are the same.
They're access, they're
quality, they're cost.
And you get to experience
that here and you can bring
some of those changes across the globe.
Our team's really focused on
the full breadth of solutions.
We have the opportunity to
personalise the outcomes,
to personalise the medicine,
to personalise the treatment,
to personalise the way the
company interacts with them.
That is new, that is happening.
Every single one of
those records is a person.
At the end of the day, it's
about understanding somebody's
journey that makes the difference.
And that's what we try to focus on.
We really are at the
leading edge of understanding
emerging tech,
which is critical for
us to actually be able to act
on the enterprise strategy
and really bring some of
these consumer experiences to life. The primary goal is to
apply artificial intelligence
and machine learning
on that data to detect
what signatures or patterns
are in the medical histories
of people who are likely
to get these diseases.
By better predicting the
likelihood that a given
patient will develop a certain disease,
we're naturally focusing
back on the individual.
We have a disease progression model.
Basically, it tells us if
the disease is getting worse
or better, that actually
helps us predict the volume
of drugs that might come our way.
Better predict what drugs
are coming your way,
set better prices and drive outcomes.
We're using AI to help
make the claims and payment
management more efficient,
automating document processing,
voice-assisted technology.
It's not here to replace a provider,
it's here to give them the
tools and the information
that they need when they need it,
to make a difference in
the lives of patients.
And that's a really rewarding
thing to be able to do.
You've actually made
a difference to a person
and their family and their life.
That's the connection between
massive volumes of data
and thinking about things
from one person at a time.
Working in a company
that has aspirations to be
the best at what they do,
that's what drives people.
Solving problems and having
the best people with you
trying to solve those problems.
You can't beat that.
There are people who are
actually able to not only
look at the data and understand it,
but analyse it and express it in a way
that others understand.
And that's, I suppose, that's the gift of a great storyteller.
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Each day we strive to shape a health care system that works better for your whole health.