Our Take on Population Health - Deep Dive
A comprehensive population health solution is challenging and complex to realize: reduce costs, improve outcomes, spread responsibility, get entire populations healthy. It starts with the data. The data is what will allow your organization to finally shift the way your clinicians care for patients: no longer treating illness but preventing it, and maintaining health above all. The data doesn't lie. Or at least it shouldn't at this stage in the HIT journey. When your organization can become more data driven, you can move on from the practice of subjective medicine holding you back. Certainly no easy task when talk of 'semantic interoperability' enters the fray -- the practice of culling data from both within and outside of your EHR, combining it, and then putting it to work for you.
The quicker you are, the quicker value will be realized and your organization can focus on what's next. Right now there is a craze of wellness and fitness app integration demands from your patients. Are you listening? Social Determinants of Health are heating up in HIT, at CES, and anywhere else people are paying attention. With FHIR-based apps capable of integrating with your Epic system, largely supported and spurred on by the release of Epic's App Orchard, who knows what the next wave will bring. If your organization has not put together a comprehensive approach to population health and value-based care, you are no longer just behind the curve. You are at risk for falling WAY behind the curve, into obsolescence.
Consider Your Needs to Get Ahead:
Care delivery that doesn't just keep up with rapidly changing requirements being handed down from CMS and payers. You need to get ahead of it all so that you can focus on what's next.
You need to leverage the data your organization will use to do so, to provide your clinicians with real-time updates on how they're doing compared to their colleagues, and how their patients are compared to others just like them.
You need collaboration that starts with your physician leadership.
You need Clinically Integrated Networks.
You need Data Aggregation and Integration.
You need integrated, aligned, and 5-Right confirmed Clinical Decision Support functionality in place.
Health Information Technology is entering this new phase of population health care delivery and value-based healthcare. And the environment no longer allows your organization to catch up when it can.
Downshift can help guide you back to the forefront of all things population health, value-based care, analytics, reporting, and CDS. You name it, we can help.
