Oliver Wyman April 6, 2022
KEY TAKEAWAY
New #interoperability standards could improve how #healthcare accounts for value. #HealthIT
You have heard the mantra about searching for “value” in healthcare. There have been dozens, hundreds, or thousands of federal policies — depending on how you parse the Federal Register — and entire organizations such as AHRQ, MedPAC and the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality dedicated to this one goal. Why has finding value been so elusive?
To a large extent, our struggle to find value dates back to 1942 when, after the Roosevelt administration froze wage hikes to forestall inflation during World War II, employers turned to healthcare benefits as a major recruiting tool. The subsequent growth of employer-sponsored insurance limited the impact individual consumers...