RevCycle Intelligence January, 2018
Jacqueline Belliveau

Timely data is key to reducing the costs of a hospital’s most expensive high-risk patients, while value-based contracts sustain the population health management efforts.

With just 5 percent of patients accounting for nearly one-half of the nation’s healthcare spending, hospitals and health systems have a significant opportunity to address a large proportion of their costs by improving the health of a relatively small number of individuals.

In order to do so, healthcare organizations need to develop population health management interventions tailored to their high-risk patients, including super-utilizers and those with a variety of chronic conditions.

Real-time clinical data access is the foundation for patient interventions that reduce both unnecessary utilization and overall care spending. Providers must use the data to...

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