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Among hospitals and medical groups seeking to lower healthcare costs and improve quality, the most costly patients have become a common target for intervention. New data show (unsurprisingly) that the patients they’re looking for are the ones with the most complex arrays of chronic conditions. Nationally, the costliest 1% of patients accounted for 22.7% of […]
CMS published for the first time the quality and financial performance for individual Pioneer accountable care organizations, a small, select group enlisted for Medicare’s most ambitious test of the payment model. First year financial results show health spending slowed as much as 7% among some ACOs and accelerated as much as 5% for others. In […]
As accountable care organizations (ACOs) collect data from more sources, they report concerns about interoperability and data management. Interoperability of disparate systems is a significant challenge for 95 percent of organizations using HIT, and could be limiting the abilities of ACOs to exchange data. Reflecting the provider frustration with interoperability problems, the cost and return-on-investment […]
An accountable care organizations (ACO) survey, fielded in July-August of 2014 found that 88 percent of the ACOs face significant obstacles in integrating data from disparate sources, and 83 percent report challenges integrating technology analytics into workflow – barriers that become more acute as ACOs add new platforms or build on their expansive network of […]
Although most accountable care organizations (ACOs) have the health information technology (HIT) to improve clinical quality, poor interoperability across systems and providers remains a barrier, according to a recent ACO survey. Access to data from external organizations was challenging for 100 percent of respondents. Follow us on Twitter: @ironSageGroup About Patriot Labs Health Patriot Labs […]
A data-driven population health management program targeted to Medicaid patients has successfully improved patient engagement, enhanced patient-provider communications, and raised HEDIS scores for chronic disease sufferers, according to a case study from CareOregon Advantage. Follow us on Twitter: @ironSageGroup About Patriot Labs Health Patriot Labs Health is a premier provider of performance improvement, health information […]
Retailers must evolve with the times to implement a host of digital technologies for the supply chain and its stores. Strategic plans must include appropriate technology investments for replacing legacy e-commerce sites with global cloud-based systems that support strong growth in e-commerce channels. The time has come to combine the siloed websites driven by legacy […]
In a recent survey, senior information technology executives at some of the nation’s largest health systems ranked the “lack of analytics expertise and resources to adopt the technology,” as the highest among obstacles to their adoption of analytics. Not surprisingly, the next biggest obstacle to analytics adoption was the large number of other IT priorities […]
When asked to rate the importance of healthcare trends accelerating the adoption of analytics, a recent survey of senior information technology executives at some of the nation’s largest health systems ranked population health management highest at 84 percent, followed by quality improvement (79 percent) and accountable care (68 percent). Other important initiatives ranked by survey […]
Analytics is a prerequisite for all of the major initiatives currently underway to address value-based care. A new survey of senior information technology executives at some of the nation’s largest health systems reveals that their top priority for IT infrastructure investment is analytics – a technology that is central to achieving the systematic quality improvements […]