Value-based care

The Advanced Medical Technology Association has created a Center for Digital Health to help its member companies to leverage healthcare data and technological innovation.

Revisions are intended to ease efforts to collaborate and use information to support value-based care and coordinated care.

President Donald Trump will outline his approach for Medicare this week, contrasting plans with Democrats in a planned speech.

Efforts to improve patient care and capitalize on vast stores of medical information will lean heavily on healthcare information systems—many experts believe computerization must pay off now.

Some 60 percent of health plans report that they review gaps in care based on manual requests to providers. Only 9 percent of health plans can identify gaps in care in real time, according to the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange in its report entitled “Closing Gaps in Care through Health Data Exchange.”

Accountable care organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program have generated $1 billion in savings since their inception.

Ankur Teredesai says the entire premise of value in healthcare is based on the ability to measure performance metrics.

Blue Shield of California is the first payer to sign with a new value-based care collaborative with healthcare services company Altais and health IT company Aledade.

Utilization and care management solutions have been around for decades, but today’s health plans are looking for newer breakthrough technology to help them negotiate today’s changing market.