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Value-Based Payment Models

Fueling EHR Innovation by Outsourcing e-Prescribing Development

by G. Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst 11/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Fueling EHR Innovation by Outsourcing e-Prescribing Development

Health IT software – and EHRs in particular – are widely criticized for their inefficient workflows and unfriendly user interfaces. Unhappy end-users may blame EHR vendors for failing to deliver great software, perhaps not realizing that health IT companies struggle to balance limited financial and human resources and must choose between meeting ever-changing regulatory demands and creating innovative updates that improve the user experience.  Consider this: every year, vendors must make dozens
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3 Digital Solutions Driving The Primary Care Practice for the 21st Century

by Jasmine Pennic 11/01/2019 Leave a Comment

3 Solutions Driving The Primary Care Practice for the 21st Century

- Latest Chilmark report evaluates new patient-facing AI tools, remote care platforms and telehealth solutions for impact to primary care infrastructures.- The 33-page report covers in-depth primary care tech such as chatbots, AI assistants and symptom checkers as well as behavioral health platforms.- Report includes 11 short profiles of major and promising vendors, with three to four vendors identified per solution type that includes product differentiators and vendor-specific impact on access,
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Aunt Bertha Taps Innovaccer to Boost Its SDOH Program

by Jasmine Pennic 10/14/2019 Leave a Comment

Aunt Bertha Taps Innovaccer to Boost Its SDOH Program

- Aunt Bertha, the nation’s largest resource search platform has collaboration with Innovaccer to enhance its social determinants of health solution with seamless community resource referrals. - The two organizations aim to empower healthcare stakeholders with access to navigate on behalf of people in need to ensure that positive health outcomes are not hampered by social needs.Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare data activation company has launched a collaboration with Aunt Bertha, the nation’s
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Innovaccer Launches Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) Solution

by Fred Pennic 09/13/2019 Leave a Comment

Innovaccer Launches Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) Solution

- Innovaccer launches Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) solution aimed at assisting organizations as they embark on the journey of delivering patient-centric, cost-effective care by transitioning into a PCMH and advancing primary care. - With PCMH Pre-validation from the NCQA, Innovaccer provides over 40% of the total credits needed for certification. - The solution saves providers from the trouble of navigating through EHRs and Excel sheets with automated care delivery support at
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ACS, Harvard Business School Institute to Develop Value Measurement Tool for Hospitals

by Jasmine Pennic 07/19/2019 Leave a Comment

ACS, Harvard Business School Institute to Develop Value Measurement Tool for Hospitals

Leaders from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Harvard Business School's (HBS) Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness are teaming up on a new partnership aimed at improving healthcare value. As part of the partnership, the two organizations will develop a value measurement tool to help hospitals and surgical practices improve patient outcomes while lowering the cost of delivering care.Need for Value Measurement Tools for HospitalsDuring the announcement on Capitol Hill on Thursday,
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J.D. Power to Publish First-Ever Telehealth Satisfaction Study Focused on 3 Categories

by Jasmine Pennic 06/27/2019 Leave a Comment

J.D. Power to Publish First-Ever Telehealth Satisfaction Study

J.D. Power, a global leader in consumer insights, advisory services, and data and analytics announced its plan to launch its first-ever Telehealth Satisfaction Study in November 2019.Why Telehealth Satisfaction?As new value-based payment models continue to re-define the consumer healthcare experience, the use of telehealth as a lower-cost form of medical consultation has skyrocketed in popularity. Among the commercially insured, telehealth visits increased 261% between 2015 and 20171 and the
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Survey: Executives Predict Accelerated Shift to Value-based Payments in 2019

by Jasmine Pennic 02/20/2019 Leave a Comment

Survey: Executives Predict Accelerated Shift to Value-based Payments

According to a recent Lumeris-sponsored survey, forty-six percent of healthcare executives believe their organization’s pace of change toward value-based payment is moving quickly or very quickly, up 14 points from Q2 2018. Additionally, sixty-two percent of health systems indicated that they plan to assume additional risk in the next 12 months. Of these, ACOs (46%), Medicare Advantage (31%), and bundled payments (23%) were common methods for increased risk assumption. The Lumeris-sponsored
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Survey: Health Plans Are Struggling with Value-Based Reimbursement

by Dr. Stephen Beck 02/13/2019 Leave a Comment

Health plans are struggling with value-based reimbursement (VBR) due to internal and external barriers are hampering payers’ adoption of value-based programs, according to a new survey by HealthEdge and Survata. The survey reveals that for payers to have a significant chance at success with VBR programs, they must have modern and flexible technology systems that can easily collect and share data, quickly test and model new programs, and are designed to build more trust among providers of all
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Virta Health Puts 100% of Fees at Risk with New Value-based Care Model

by Jasmine Pennic 11/14/2018 Leave a Comment

Virta Health Puts 100% of Fees at Risk with New Value-based Care Model

Virta Health unveils new value-based care model that makes every dollar performance-based, with the majority tied to health outcomes for diabetes reversal. Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes without the use of medications or surgery, today announced a unique value-based care model that puts 100% of its fees at risk. The new model ensures that every dollar is tied performance-based benchmarks to
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Innovaccer Launches ACO Compare to Analyze ACO Performance Trends

by Jasmine Pennic 02/15/2018 Leave a Comment

Innovaccer Launches ACO Compare to Analyze ACO Performance Trends

Accountable care organizations are playing a pivotal role in the value-based ecosystem. Since their formation in 2012, MSSP ACOs have saved over $2 billion for millions of assigned beneficiaries. More importantly, the quality of care has improved drastically as a direct result of the collaborative efforts by ACOs. The average quality scores of 2016 are higher than ever, attesting that ACOs are instrumental in advancing value-based care.However, the overall results, as observed on ACO Compare, do
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