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Interoperability without Data Quality: A FHIR Storm
In this whitepaper, we examine the current landscape of healthcare and the key challenges healthcare organizations confront with cost-effectively collecting quality patient information and sharing it between stakeholders.
Overcoming the Barriers of Value-Based Care Adoption
Over a decade of programs championed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, focusing on accountable care and bundled payments, have had some notable successes. Private value-based care arrangements, structured by health plans and state Medicaid departments have had some significant achievements.
Improve Performance Measures with Tips from an NCQA Expert
Watch former NCQA executive vice president Michael Barr discuss the challenges of obtaining quality data and how to fill the EHR data gaps.
The New Healthcare Truths of 2023
Many facets of healthcare remain in a state of flux at the close of 2022. Verinovum’s SWAT (Strategic Workforce and Tactics) team has been closely following these trends and has made predictions about how nine of them might play out in 2023.
Impact of a Divided Congress on Healthcare & Health Policy in 2023
The midterm election cycle has come and gone. A divided government means that it is highly unlikely that Congress, and specifically the House, will pass any monumental policies that would face defeat in the senate or a veto from the Executive Branch. What does this mean for healthcare and health policy in 2023?
Report Card – Looking Back on the New Truths of 2022
Each year, the Verinovum team makes predictions about what the new year will bring for healthcare, and 2022 proved to be another eventful year. So, how’d we do in our New Truths of 2022 predictions?
Using High-Quality Data to Demonstrate What Members Prize Most: Health Plan Value
Competitive pressures and complex regulatory plan performance reporting requirements create an additional challenge – acquiring correct and accurate data to demonstrate the best possible value to potential members, governmental agencies, and employer purchasers.
Healthcare quality is rarely simple — but it can be simplified
While a seismic shift in the administration, receipt, and payment for healthcare in the U.S. Quality has become a hot topic of discussion among stakeholders, change has been slow. The definitions of quality and value are rarely simple to quantify, and waste and error remain ubiquitous.
Better interoperability… Yet poor clinical data quality could cause a “mis-FHIR”
The U.S. healthcare system’s information technology infrastructure is a house of cards when it comes to interoperability and clinical data usability. Efficiently sharing patient and member information among clinicians, practices, payers, and patients is an ongoing challenge and this house of cards often collapses due to complex interoperability and data quality issues.