When legislation collides, and a call for the healthcare innovation equivalent to GAAP Summary In...
COVID-19: A Forcing Function for Value Based Care?
COVID-19 is alive and well in the U.S. In the last six days alone, COVID cases have increased by...
Convergence in Healthcare: What is it? And Why Now?
Convergence is a thesis that posits the successful path to risk-adjusted care requires realignment...
Convergence and the Three Rules for Data Governance
Across the industry novel provider-payer collaborations have arisen – something we refer to as...
Beyond Reporting: Analytics Moving to Point of Care
The 2017 Healthcare Analytics Market Trends Report is now available. Building on the 2014 and 2016...
Prior Authorization: Productivity Sink In Dire Need of Convergence
Prior Authorization is often viewed as the poster child for throwing the Quadruple Aim off balance...
Vendors Enabling the ACO: New Class of Vendors Matures
Successfully enabling an Accountable Care Organization is extremely challenging: There isn’t one standard ACO model; there isn’t one single ACO national policy; there isn’t one specific map to follow to build an ACO nor measure its success. There are few if any best practices readily available for healthcare organizations to adopt and make a successful transition to value-based care (VBC) within an ACO model. This has created a strong market need for high-service solution vendors (“ACO Enablers”) that can guide healthcare organizations (HCOs) on the ACO path.
RCM Meets PHM
It won't happen in 2017 or 2018, but the argument can be made that PHM will likely include some...
Changing of the Guard: Implications to Health IT Market
After a brutal election cycle, we are now on the other-side. The Republicans have taken control of...