ONC’s first draft of a nationwide interoperability roadmap is ambitiously vast in scope, but...
Looking into Our Crystal Ball for 2015
Over the last few weeks, the Chilmark Research team has combed through their research, read...
2014 Year in Review: Clinician Network Management
Being seasoned veterans of the HIE/CNM market, 2014 was not so much a year of surprises, but one...
2014/5 CLINICIAN NETWORK MANAGEMENT MARKET TRENDS REPORT
Healthcare organizations (HCO) have historically invested in health information exchange (HIE) technology expecting that access to a patient’s longitudinal record can help clinicians deliver better care. But there has always been a financial motive. In light of the continued move to value-based reimbursement (VBR), HCOs are raising their expectations about the role an HIE can play in the financial health of the enterprise. In the not-too-distant future, HIE objectives will be far more complex than they are currently. An HCO’s success will depend on effective and efficient care processes in venues that the HCO does not control but nevertheless must understand and influence. HCOs need new capabilities, including better visibility into the clinical processes of other HCOs, if they are to manage their risk and optimize care processes no matter where their patients seek care across the continuum. HCOs will require a new level of distributed intelligence to extract value from clinically integrated networks. Beyond driving referrals and accessing a patient’s record, HCOs will need to ensure that all clinicians with whom they share risk have access to tools and are receiving the information they need to meet contract-based clinical quality and financial metrics.
#WWBR Week of December 1, 2014
Employee wellness programs, JASON strikes again, CMS’s ACO move, and more in this week’s #WWBR
Early Impressions of Europe
In late August, Vienna became my home for the upcoming year. From this base, in the heart of...
#WWBR Week of November 3, 2014
All the news from the week that we think is fit to print!
JASON Task Force – Part Deux
In a post two weeks ago, we were critical of some aspects of the JASON Task Force’s (JTF) Final...
The Current State of the Interoperability Crisis
A Long Way To Go The lack of interoperability between healthcare applications has long been...