How CMS can help hospitals succeed in providing sustainable pop health initiatives

Healthcare IT News July 24, 2017
Charles Coleman

Don’t wait for your EHR vendors to bolt on pop health features when CMS already offers programs, tools, financial incentives and a roadmap for integrated, coordinated care.

I think it’s fair to say that many of us who have been immersed in the EHR revolution of the past decade on a day-to-day basis most likely never expected to see the electronic health records systems functioning as population health platforms — for many reasons.

That said, EMR vendors seem to be suggesting that if you wait, they will build it, and so have apparently convinced some health care providers and systems to actually do just that — hold off until their EHR vendor adds population health to its existing implementations. But...

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