The tech making health systems value-based care hubs

Mounting financial pressures, workforce shortages, and rising patient demand are pushing health systems to rethink how they deliver care.

The traditional hospital-centered model is giving way to strategies that prioritize prevention, access, and efficiency. By embracing value-based care and new technologies, organizations aim to curb costly emergency visits, ease capacity strains, and deliver better outcomes while operating under tighter margins.

“Geisinger has a long tradition of value-based care models, and over the last year we’ve accelerated our strategies in VBC,” Terry Gilliland, MD, president and CEO of Geisinger Health in Danville, Pa., told Becker’s. “We are leveraging AI to identify patients at high risk for hospitalization or emergency department visits and engage them in our care management programs to reduce hospitalizations and more importantly improve the overall health and quality of life of these patients.”

Geisinger’s clinical team is using value-based care guidelines with real-time care recommendations for treating patients during primary care visits instead of referring them out to specialists. When patients are elevated to specialists, it’s more often the right patient who needs specialty care.