MedCity News December 20, 2021
Interoperability has risen to the forefront, empowering providers and payers with the information they need to implement value-based care models.
While stories about the ongoing impact of Covid-19 continue to flood national headlines, there is another rising trend in healthcare emerging in mainstream discussions: value-based care. For years, value-based care, a model that rewards better patient health outcomes, has been discussed as a lofty dream or an idealistic care model to bend the cost curve. Today, more than ever before, this “distant dream” is becoming a reality – largely due to recent implementation of interoperability rules.
In the last year alone, new interoperability mandates have accelerated value-based care adoption by improving data sharing across the healthcare continuum. For example, most...