Healthcare is increasingly reliant on data analytics strategies. Population health measures are no exception, as they depend heavily on analytics to monitor metrics for large groups of patients, fill gaps in care, and improve health outcomes. But findings from the latest Insights report revealed that many of these population health efforts are in their infancy….
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The COVID-19 pandemic compressed a decade of healthcare transformation into mere months. Healthcare leaders have been challenged with rethinking every aspect of the business, from how care is delivered to planning for the workforce needs of the future. At the same time, consumers continue to be a driving force in shaping healthcare’s mission. Today’s healthcare…
We know data from population health technology can assist the provider organizations to make management strategy decisions that make a significant impact in disease management, for instance, with diabetic populations thanks to sophisticated technology and tracking tools that add real-time data from remote monitoring devices to influence the drug regime changes for optimizing patient outcomes,…
Healthcare interoperability issues have always been confusing, changing, and difficult to address. The reason why is not straightforward: we have a fragmented health system with a myriad of specialized applications that are not universally used. Instead, we have a system where each organization elects which technology tools to use and in what configuration. Compounding this…
Is it possible for disparities between population cohorts to be overcome or neutralized through technology? I believe the answer is yes. Over the past year, COVID-19 has magnified the gaps in healthcare on a large scale. We see this in higher rates of the virus in people of color, through the access or lack thereof…
Starting the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care is a challenge. Many provider organizations are simultaneously juggling new reimbursement models with old ones and breaking institutional memory to meaningfully move toward changes. One hospital began its journey to value-based care with an organizational assessment. The value-based care assessment helps the hospital understand which value-based care…
Telling a complete patient story requires capturing the social determinants that influence overall health. Evidence suggests that focusing on “upstream” interventions outside of traditional clinical care—such as housing, neighborhood conditions, and increased socioeconomic status—can lead to overall improvements in health and reduce health disparities and inequities. The challenge for health systems is capturing and structuring…
On July 9, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the federal agency that oversees health information technology, announced a long-awaited change that could help doctors and nurses provide better, more timely care for their patients. The agency released an updated version of the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), a…
The economic fallout related to the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to hit healthcare, but the result is likely to be an amplification of longstanding disparities within the U.S. healthcare system. Factors such as food insecurity, homelessness and access to care can affect a staggering 80% of patient outcomes. There is no single solution, and healthcare providers…