Health IT Analytics December 23, 2020
Jessica Kent

A population health app could enable large-scale data sharing among providers, payers, and public health officials.

A population health app may allow payers to access permitted data and metrics on covered populations, potentially creating a foundation for pay-for-performance and assessment of value-based care.

In a recent ONC blog post, Tracy Okubo and Kenneth Mandl describe the SMART-PopHealth app, a tool developed at Boston Children’s Hospital with a two-year, $1 million grant awarded through the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT funding opportunity. LEAP supports innovation to address emerging challenges and advance interoperability in health IT.

The authors noted that apps could help promote large-scale data sharing among providers, payers, and public health officials.

“Because of advances in interoperability,...

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