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 […]
Informatics Specialists Working to Develop and Improve Population Health Management Population Health Management(PHM) efforts generally focus on two basic forms of healthcare analytics. The first involves real-time analytics, or the clinical data provided at the point of care that affect prescriptive decision-making during patient encounters. Real-time systems rely on two or more pieces of patient […]
As US healthcare moves from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement, the methods for improving healthcare delivery across populations is evolving. The growth of Population Health Management (PHM), Electronic Health Records (EHR) and mobile health (mHealth) applications have combined to enable informatics specialists to use health care analytics to mine both clinical and claims data to establish […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Boston-based patient engagement and care management company Wellframe on raising $8.5 million. Wellframe’s platform includes a web-based clinician dashboard and a patient-facing mobile app, which is available for Apple and Android devices. The offering includes two-way, HIPAA compliant messaging and a care plan that the company says aims to amplify, not replace, therapeutic […]
In our last post, we spoke of efforts to define effective quality metrics, yet that is only half the battle. Once physicians have collected data on the care they provide, they need to be able to run advanced analytics on that data in order to get any useful information. On this count, providers have yet […]
Better quality measures, analytics are needed for the effective development of ACO models. Providers are rapidly transitioning to accountable care models, but without better quality measures, these plans may have limited success. Many payers and providers have high hopes for the ongoing, industry-wide transition to pay-for-performance models, but poorly defined quality metrics and a lack […]