Becker's Healthcare September 6, 2018
The following article comes from Jerry Shultz, President of Lightbeam Health:
To succeed under value-based reimbursement, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and clinically integrated networks (CINs) must be able to manage population health. One key to effective population health management is a holistic view of patient data.
The data in a single physician practice’s EHR is insufficient to create the comprehensive view needed to help clinicians reach quality targets and cut costs significantly. Instead, the ACO or CIN must build an infrastructure that can automate the aggregation and normalization of clinical data from its members’ disparate EHRs and other sources, as well as claims data from its payers. It must be able to analyze this data in an electronic data warehouse...