The Interoperability Effect: Driving Value-Based Care and Financial Health

June 18, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsCOVID-19, Data, data systems, EHRs, financial health, Interoperability, technology, technology integration, technology interoperability, technology strategies, value-based care, vbc

To say that hospitals and health systems have had to do more with less in the past 18 months is the understatement of a lifetime. These organizations have faced more than their fair share of unexpected challenges – from spiking patient demand, increasing costs and lost revenue, to overworked staff, a downturn in elective procedures…

Best Practices for Integrating SDOH Data into the EHR

April 30, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Commentsdata organization, Data sharing, EHR, HIEs, Interoperability, SDOH

Identifying and implementing social determinants of health (SDOH) data into the EHR is critical to finding answers to a state’s most significant issues. Once identified, SDOH data helps healthcare providers make social services referrals, but the process for doing so using technology is challenging. “It’s not that physicians have totally ignored social determinants of health,…

Change Needed to Make ONC Interoperability Rule Work for ACOs

March 25, 2020Garrett SchmittNo CommentsInteroperability

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) interoperability rule should weight the considerations of providers focused on advanced payment methods (APMs) and value-based care models, Clif Gaus, SD, president and CEO of NAACOS, wrote in a letter to ONC. In early March, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized the ONC interoperability rule,…

Healthcare in 21 years will be driven by ‘radically interoperable data’

May 21, 2019Garrett SchmittNo CommentsInteroperability

As we focus this month on the promise and potential of digital transformation across healthcare, it’s encouraging enough to take stock of the huge advances that have already been made in the past decade of the post-EHR era. But as we all know, there’s a still plenty of room for innovation and improvement as patients and…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Medicare ACOs Need to Get the Right Benchmarks to be Successful in Risk Pathways

May 9, 2019Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, Blue Button Data, FHIR, Interoperability, Webinar, webinars

 Download Enjoin Slides / Download Health Endeavors Slides Learning Objectives for this session: – How risk score and financial benchmark calculated – Strategies for achieving the correct benchmark   Visit Enjoin / Visit Health Endeavors

RECORDED WEBINAR: What I need to know to launch a Medicare ACO Part 3: Quality Metrics, Tracking Provider Performance, ACO structure & expansion

April 19, 2019Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, Blue Button Data, FHIR, Interoperability, Webinar, webinars

 Download Slides Covered in this session: Central data repository (HE Repository) for Medicare claims and clinical data. This process requires a clinical data integration plan for each clinic. Decide from the outset of the ACO start date if specialists will complete and/or report the quality measures. Assign every attributed patient to a provider using…

RECORDED WEBINAR: What I need to know to launch/re-launch Medicare ACO Part 2: Actionable Data at Point of Care & Analytics

April 12, 2019Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, Blue Button Data, FHIR, Interoperability, Webinar, webinars

 Download Slides Learning Objectives for this session: Connect consolidated 3-year health history to provider EHRs Create actionable data for providers in their EHRs Use text message notifications to bring actionable data to consumers Visit Health Endeavors

RECORDED WEBINAR: What I need to know to launch/re-launch Medicare ACO Part 1: HCC Coding, Benchmarks & Spend

April 5, 2019Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, Blue Button Data, FHIR, Interoperability, Webinar, webinars

 Download Slides  Learning Objectives for this session: Define ACO, Facility and patient benchmark How HCC Coding impacts the benchmark How to compare current spend to current benchmark at ACO, Facility and patient level Common HCC Coding issuesIn this webinar we will cover the following topics: Visit Health Endeavors

Consumerism will force healthcare’s hand on interoperability, Forrester finds at HIMSS19

March 14, 2019Garrett SchmittNo CommentsInteroperability

Forrester Research has published a report summing up its impressions from the HIMSS19 Global Conference & Exhibition. Experts said they came away from the show convinced that big momentum is building behind interoperability, and it’s not coming from the places one might expect. Health systems will need to do better with the management and sharing…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Connecting to & Sharing Data: What’s New in ACO Interoperability

January 22, 2019Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, Blue Button Data, FHIR, Interoperability, Webinar, webinars

Download Slides  In this webinar we will cover the following topics: What is Blue Button data? Using Direct Messaging How EHR Connector and APIs align more effectively with referral providers within the ACO What is FHIR Visit Health Endeavors

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