Accountable Care
A health tech CEO offers guidance on investment in analytics and IT infrastructure to accelerate the transition to VBC, strategies to get clinician buy-in, and how tech can be used to compare pricing on a market-by-market basis.
By aligning capabilities and working together to develop affordable and tailored technology, the nonprofit healthcare technology service organizations aim to improve the sustainability of community health centers nationwide.
A network serving more than half the state's population with mental illness will bolster integrated care using population health management tools from Alera Health. Meanwhile, a consortium will use grant funding to grow the behavioral health workforce.
Payers need information for risk adjustment and providers need data to close gaps in care, says Piyush Khanna of CareFirst BCBS.
Not only are the HHS information blocking disincentives too steep, but they could also interrupt accountable care organizations' shift to value-based care, the organizations argue. Meanwhile, the EHR Association says the regs are "too narrowly focused."
Despite challenges such as data privacy concerns and the need for seamless integration into existing systems, the trajectory of AI development in healthcare is promising as tools continue to improve, says Alex Mason of FTV Capital.
The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver is set to expire this year unless Congress acts.
Wendell Primus, a Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow, has a plan to help low-income Medicare beneficiaries.
