Choosing The Right Technology Partner.
Danger, selecting the wrong population health vendor can spell disaster. After trying to secure a population health solution for a client, it became very clear that even the very large vendors in this space did not have a real end to end solution. Besides your electronic medical records or your electronic health records vendor (ideally it should be the same, but not necessary) you should only have one additional vendor, that vendor should provide all of your population health needs, reporting and administrative dashboards and provide it all in a friendly interoperable enterprise setting.
Solutions for Addressing Health Information Exchange Challenges
Health information exchange is essential to achieving true interoperability, but solutions are necessary for addressing challenges to information sharing.
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“Hospitals and physicians are now exchanging more electronic health information than ever before,” the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology told Congress in an annual report from early November.
It is a statement of fact backed up by rather positive statistics.
“In 2008, 41 percent of all hospitals electronically exchanged health information with outside health care providers,” the report continues. “These rates have since doubled. In 2015, more than eight in ten (82 percent) non-federal acute care hospitals electronically exchanged laboratory results, radiology reports, clinical summaries or medication lists.”
Few Healthcare Business Intelligence Users Join an ACO, HIE
Healthcare business intelligence users may have more insight into their operations, but they aren't necessarily using the data for ACO and HIE participation.
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By - Healthcare providers who want to wade into the value-based care ecosystem are well aware that they must overcome a number of technical and organizational hurdles before they can reap the rewards of joining an accountable care organization (ACO) or taking on a pay-for-performance contract with a payer.
Not only must they feel comfortable with using their electronic health records for basic documentation and patient management, but they must also master the complex continuum of healthcare business intelligence tools that combine to support risk stratification, revenue cycle management, and care coordination.
