How Hospitals Can Drive Revenue in Value-Based Care Using 7 Key Cycles of Their Data

The following is a guest blog post by Richard A. Royer, Chief Executive Officer of Primaris.
Back in the day – the late 1960s, when social norms and the face of America was rapidly changing – a familiar public service announcement began preceding the nightly news cast. “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”
Today, as the healthcare landscape changes rapidly with a seismic shift from the fee-for-service payment model to value-based care models, there’s a similar but new clarion call for quality healthcare: “It’s 2018. Do you know where your data is?”
Compliance with the increasingly complex alphabet soup of quality reporting and reimbursement rules – indeed, the fuel for the engine driving value-based car – is strongly dependent on data. The promising benefits of the age of digital health, from electronic health records (EHRs) to wearable technology and other bells and whistles, will occur only as the result of accurate, reliable, actionable data. Providers and healthcare systems that master the data and then use it to improve quality of care for better population health and at less cost will benefit from financial incentives. Those who do not connect their data to quality improvement will suffer the consequences.
As for the alphabet soup? For starters, we’re as familiar now with these acronyms as we are with our own birth dates: MACRA (the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015), which created the QPP (Quality Payment Program...

Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 5, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Health Care Healthcare Healthcare Business Intelligence Healthcare Interoperability HealthCare IT Health Data Normalization Healthcare Data Primaris Richard A. Royer Source Type: blogs