Serving the Value-Based Care Community
May 12, 2023
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The expansion and specialization of health networks has made it difficult for most consumers to navigate and advocate for themselves within today’s healthcare organizations. For the average health consumer, simply identifying in-network providers, requesting a cost estimate, or scheduling a medical test presents a major hassle. Add a chronic condition or difficult diagnosis in the mix and the burden of accessing required care only increases. Over time, unsatisfactory healthcare interactions leave consumers frustrated and burned out, eroding their trust in healthcare organizations’ ability to consistently and reliably provide the care they need. But there’s a solution that can minimize the strain on consumers and healthcare organizations: AI.
We are all futurists. We all have to make predictions—even if only implicitly—about the future to shape our lives: to determine what job we take, where to live, whether to buy a house, whether to get additional education or training and in what subjects, and on and on. The same is true for the 22 million people employed in health care in the US as well as health investors and government policy makers. Thus, it is essential to periodically consider trends in the health care system, to figure out how to benefit from them, to assess how to bolster beneficial trends or to impede those that seem unhelpful or even harmful. What does the future hold for health care?
The U.S. healthcare system’s shift from volume to value has been a trudging fifteen-year journey. Despite its potential to reduce costs and improve quality of care, the national movement toward value-based care has been harried by inconsistent guidance, confusion and misalignment among payers and providers, and subsequently mixed success across various payment models. Adoption among providers has been slow – and for good reason. Success in value-based arrangements requires providers fundamentally and meaningfully transform the way they deliver care. Amidst an unprecedented workforce shortage that continues to ripple across the industry – one that has been boiling for over a decade – many provider organizations don’t have the risk appetite right now to whole-heartedly embrace dramatic changes to reimbursement.
Medical Economics | May 8, 2023
A combination of comprehensive data, sophisticated analysis and rigorous modeling are essential to unlocking the potential of value-based care. Yet without a culture of information sharing and the unification of individual datasets, healthcare organizations will be limited in how they can most effectively develop an equitable framework to allocate risks and rewards among participants. The data necessary to support value-based care is ultimately a function of how it is defined.
Sponsored Webinars
UPCOMING WEBINARS:

Success Snapshot: How UCSF Health is improving patient outcomes through timely access to high-quality post-acute care
  • Topic: Case study of post-acute care at UCSF Health and how it has bridged care gaps, streamlined workflows, and reduced healthcare disparities, leading to improved patient access and outcomes
Sponsored by: CarePort Health
May 18, 2023 | 1 PM EST

RECORDED WEBINARS:

Access up to $5.6M from CMS to start your ACO Journey (AIP)
  • Topic: How to start becoming an ACO, receive investment payments while remaining independent, and be innovative with patient care

Check our our Webinar Archive to view past webinars on a variety of value-based care related topics!
Upcoming Conferences
APG Annual Spring Conference 2023: Going the Distance
May 31-June 2, 2023 | San Diego, CA

2023 Virtual National Advanced Healthcare at Home Summit
July 11-14, 2023 | Virtual

RISE West 2023
August 28-30, 2023 | Dallas, TX

Activate2023
September 27-28, 2023 | Minneapolis, MN
EXHIBITOR SPOTLIGHT
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Credo is a leader in automated patient medical record retrieval and analysis serving value-based care providers. Credo offers the VBC world a scalable, reliable, and secure patient data management solution that digitizes the transfer and release of patient data, which allows healthcare providers to receive a complete medical history and summarization before every visit, and ultimately leads to better patient outcomes. Stop faxing patient health data, and start using Credo!
Platinum Level Exhibitors
Thank you to our Platinum Level exhibitors. These organizations offer the absolute highest quality products & services to the ACO & IPA community. To learn more & visit their interactive booths, click on the logos below:
Gold Level Exhibitors
Thank you to our Gold Level exhibitors. To learn more & visit their interactive booths, click on the logos below:
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