Baystate Health finds ACO success with help from its own startup

Baystate Health in Springfield, Massachusetts, has been focusing on value-based care for quite some time. As a Next Generation Accountable Care Organization and a participant in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement program, it’s important for the health system to know what’s happening with its patients beyond the hospital walls.

One of the early advantages Baystate had was its healthcare technology innovation center, TechSpring. TechSpring works with stakeholders in the health system to identify “passionate problems” in today’s environment and attempts to find innovators or companies that have been...