Accountable Care

The AI vendor will be discussing these 2019 healthcare and technology trends with attendees at HIMSS19 in Orlando next month.

(Sponsored) Blockchain has huge potential to ensure different parties work together and collaborate to deliver high-quality care for patients by providing the optimum platforms for care providers, says Ali Rizwan, product manager for Solve.care.

(Sponsored) The AMA's award-winning tools help alleviate the problem of physician burnout, improving clinical workflows and removing patient-care barriers, says Laurie McGraw, SVP of Health Solutions at the AMA.

The Health Risk Assessment application guides providers through a structured approach to risk assessment and documentation during an annual wellness visit.

While accountable care may be shifting some spending priorities, too few health systems of any type are thinking enough about how future changes will decide their IT needs, says Deloitte.

The provider organization has been working with a health IT and services vendor with a two-solution strategy that is enabling the organization’s transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value.

The enterprise software vendor will also be making the case for putting ERP in the cloud at the upcoming health IT conference.

The healthcare venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase has hired insurance executive Dana Gelb Safran as head of measurement, a data-driven technology position, according to CNBC. Safran is the chief performance measurement and improvement officer and senior vice president of Enterprise Analytics, at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. She joins the Boston-based group headed by Dr. Atul Gawande. WHY IT MATTERS In her role at BCBS Massachusetts, Safran was responsible for leading efforts to use data, measurement, incentives, and reporting to improve the quality, outcomes, and affordability of care, according to biography information from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Webinar: Women in Blockchain: Making a Difference in Healthcare through Distributed Ledger Technology Safran’s experience improving quality and outcomes while lowering the cost of care through IT is exactly how the industry views Amazon’s new venture and its potential to tackle healthcare’s greatest challenges. Data and analytics will loom large, as will offering the 1-plus million employees of the three companies a personalized approach to healthcare benefits. THE TREND Not much has been released about the new venture, which the big three formed earlier this year. It still has no official name. Gawande was named CEO in June. Safran’s background in health insurance, however, aligns with the innovations expected of Gawande, a Brigham and Women’s Hospital surgeon, author and New Yorker staff writer who, in the November 12 issue, sympathized with physicians struggling to balance EHR technology with work schedules and patient care. DANA SAFRAN: THERE'S MORE TO KNOW Safran was appointed to serve on MedPAC in 2017 in a term through April 2020. She is also an associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. She serves on a number of state and national advisory bodies related to healthcare quality and affordability, including the National Quality Forum Consensus Standards Approval Committee and the CMS Technical Expert Panel on the Quality Rating System. Twitter: @SusanJMorse Email the writer: susan.morse@himssmedia.com

The clinically integrated network, with 10 payer feeds, more than 40 practice billing systems and around 20 EHR feeds across two large health systems, has aggregated data from 1,380 physicians across 185 practice locations.

Carilion Clinic has been on a path toward value-based care for more than a decade, but staff realized they needed more support in gaining better insights into their patient population.