Value-based care

More Americans are seeking technology as part of their healthcare experience, according to UnitedHealthcare’s annual survey of consumer sentiment.

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.

During the next decade, Geisinger intends to broaden its implementation of Cerner’s HealtheIntent population health platform across its clinical enterprise, accountable care organization and health plan.

Patient use of an online portal has been linked to significant improvements in preventive health behaviors, according to a study of 10,000 patients by Penn Medicine researchers.

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.

The Object Management Group has launched BPM+ Health to aid healthcare stakeholders in leveraging health information technology to improve the quality of clinical care.

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.”