For healthcare organizations and providers involved in a Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), 2025 is truly a time of transition and a little uncertainty. When colleagues recently asked for my thoughts on MSSP this year, the old saying “May you live in interesting times” kept coming to mind.
This is the final post in a five-part series highlighting top insights from our white paper, Personalized Value-Based Care: Effective Multi-Generational Care Management Strategies. It’s true that meeting the health needs of individuals across generations is partly about age-related clinical factors. But there’s much more to consider. Addressing generation-specific attitudes, concerns, and preferences regarding healthcare,...
In 2023, we expect to see the continuation of health payers and organizations shifting to value-based care models with a focus on health equity. Combined with the economic headwinds, we’re also expecting to see a higher prioritization on member engagement and activation, addressing social determinants of health, and ensuring optimal data interoperability. Here’s the inside...
This post is the first in a five-part series highlighting top insights from our white paper, Personalized Value-Based Care: Effective Multi-Generational Care Management Strategies. Addressing generation-specific attitudes, concerns, and preferences regarding healthcare, as well as non-clinical factors that impact health like social determinants of health (SDOH), is integral to member engagement and better outcomes. In this...
Why is healthcare data interoperability so difficult to achieve? The technical staff currently needed to manage healthcare data exchange to meet interoperability standards and requirements is extensive, burdensome, and costly. A streamlined FHIR® data solution could significantly reduce all three and help organizations overcome critical data challenges. In the final episode of our data interoperability...
Why does FHIR® matter so much in the modern healthcare data exchange? A conversation with VirtualHealth product team leaders about the different reasons why FHIR®matters in the modern healthcare data exchange. There are a number of reasons why the HL7® FHIR® standard matters in the modern healthcare data exchange. From improved access for payers, providers,...
What is FHIR? Why does FHIR matter in healthcare data management? The HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources 1) standard defines how healthcare information can be exchanged between different computer systems regardless of how it is stored in those systems. And for healthcare payers and organizations today, it’s an important standard for sharing and exchanging...
Medical management platforms can help accountable care organizations (ACOs) meet core goals related to providing highly coordinated, value-based care. For example, software with automated workflows and data centralization capabilities helped ACOs increase primary care services and wellness rates among members while reducing emergency department visits, hospital readmissions, and overall costs, according to a 2017 report...
How has healthcare data interoperability changed in the last few years? Are data silos still a core challenge? Disconnected data negatively impacts payers and providers across the care continuum, impacting everything from healthcare experiences and health outcomes to higher costs and inaccurate care and utilization management. In Episode 2, Marcus Caraballo, VP of Product Management,...
Enabling a whole-person care approach that benefits members, payors, and providers From member-centered, whole-person care to driving cost savings, better coordination of care, and more efficient processes, this is all part of the connected care ecosystem. Join Robert McChane, VP of Marketing, and Katie Nieto, Senior Program Manager, in our latest Future of Care Chat...
