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After years spent transforming your health care technology, you may feel like you’re almost done. But Value-Based Care Technology requires a different mindset. With reimbursement scaling to a tipping point for APM adoption, think “reboot” instead. Your health system or group has a long way to go if your aggregated and integrated data cannot support person-centric care and data-directed population health, quality, and health equity strategies.
The Value-Based Care Technology game is no longer focused on implementing an EHR, or even population health. Those are basic ingredients that make it possible to do more. Now it’s about bringing all the systems and data together to create value for your clinicians and your patients, a view that experts are beginning to advocate. Your ability to drive better performance in outcomes and costs will depend on radical improvements in data sufficiency and how that data lines up in your systems for use by stakeholders.
Consider this: for your clinicians to develop an optimal clinical plan with each patient under care in an APM, they must first understand the patient’s long-term outcomes and events, plus the patient’s own social needs and preferences and costs. Much of this is data clinicians never see now, even if they are using an EHR. Understanding and sharing this data makes it possible to help patients self-manage conditions and participate in prescribed therapies, and to feed information back to their clinicians. Across the organization, this is what drives better care and lower costs.
Data sufficiency is the number one issue most health systems and groups contemplating APMs must tackle. But it’s not the only data issue you have. Let’s unpack what your new APM world requires for getting and utilizing data.