Healthcare IT News July 15, 2015
Healthcare in the U.S. is on the threshold of fundamental change. Powered by advances in federal policy, the underlying way in which we pay for healthcare is moving from the traditional fee-for-service, pay-for-volume historic approach to one that pays for demonstrated value.
The way in which value is measured is still evolving, but risk-sharing, measuring the health status of populations, and coordinating care in order to improve effectiveness and reduce the total cost of care are the basic planks upon which this new environment is being built.
This next chapter of U.S. healthcare will require changes on several levels. For starters, the way physicians are organized is changing. Though still prominent elements of the landscape, small and solo practices are...
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