This isn’t your first rodeo - you know better than to succumb to the temptation to shortchange this imperative effort. But does everyone share your perspective?How deeply are you tracking projects that so often fall squarely in a technical realm?

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. 

Let's face it, there's only so much time managers and directors have to offer in between meetings and deadlines.   But helping staff understand the intricacies of internal policies and the minutia of Epic greatly improves your team's ability to run more efficiently.  

Patient Registries - for many organizations the big, bad, black hole of convoluted and complicated configuration.  Which, just happen to be absolutely critical to obtaining value from your Epic CHR

A solid approach to Clinical Decision Support (CDS) begins with strong engagement from your clinical leaders.  At the other end of the spectrum, the approach includes comprehensive training materials so that all stakeholders know what to expect. 

User Dashboards - your clinicians and executives will thank you for helping them to, in real-time, catch up and stay ahead of the changing dynamics in their workplace. 

Value-based care (abbreviated as VBC or VBHC) and population health care delivery go hand in hand.  Organizations cannot have one without at least thinking of the other, and VBHC will not be attainable without population health.

Whether it is to simply participate in development of your CIN or to take a more active role is up to you.  But your HIT staff must be at the table when it comes to Clinical Integration.

The landscape is becoming more about value than volume.  To realize the value, reports can no longer be thought of and used solely for downstream data delivery purposes.  Rather, these sets of data must be incorporated in their purest form back into CHR decision mechanisms.