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A new report, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, summarizes interviews with executives at 21 organizations involved in value-based care. The report focuses on the barriers to and facilitators of data integration in support of value-based care.
Conducted by researchers at the Urban Institute and HealthTech Solutions, the report noted that interviewees identified four primary uses for data integration in value-based care: point of care, care coordination, quality measurement and reporting, and population health.
The authors note that one challenge was that the organizations selected had inconsistent definitions of data integration and varying levels of integration. “This suggests that context is critical for interpretation, and generalizing about data integration across organization types, settings, and uses of integrated data is challenging. Interviewees’ understanding of data integration depended upon their roles within an organization and how they used or supported the use of data.,” they wrote.