RamaOnHealthcare August 10, 2016
John D. Halamka, MD, MS

A Visit to Oscar Health

Today I’m in New York City visiting Oscar Health, on my continuing quest to determine how best to integrate digital platforms, patient-family engagement, and care coordination in preparation for MACRA/MIPS and the transformation from fee for service to alternative payment models.

At the moment, there is no single magic bullet, but there are early innovations that hold promise.

At BIDMC we’ve thought the best approach to care management is to identify a cohort with a disease, then enroll that cohort in a program which involves tracking progress against guidelines/protocols, deploying telemedicine/visiting nurses, and measuring data from home-based devices.

Oscar’s approach incorporates similar ideas by providing a unique mobile app and web resources for patients, providers...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), Analytics, Apps, CMS, Employer, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), HITECH, MACRA, Medicare, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Retail care, Self-insured, Telehealth, Urgent care, Value Based, Wearables
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