Healthcare Strategies

Emphasizing Patient Experience in Value-Based Care to Improve Collaboration

While views on the definition of "value" in value-based care may vary, healthcare professionals can rally around prioritizing patient experience in value-based care. LeChauncy Woodard, MD, director of Humana Integrated Health System Sciences Institute and professor at the University of Houston, and Tray Cockerell, a strategic relationship executive at Humana, explain how value is perceived today and how the industry can unify around patient-centered, value-based care.

Making Progress toward Physical, Behavioral Healthcare Integration

Healthcare industry leaders have emphasized the need for physical, behavioral healthcare integration, but what actions do payers and healthcare organizations need to take to meaningfully move in the right direction? Brett Hart, Centene’s Chief Behavioral Health Officer, and Indira Paharia, Centene’s Chief Operating Officer for Behavioral Health, discuss barriers to integration and how to best leverage telehealth and value-based care to empower primary care services and achieve integration.

Progressing from COVID Cost-Sharing Waivers to Less Low-Value Spending

Payers eliminated cost-sharing for coronavirus treatment when the pandemic hit the US in March 2020. Now they have the opportunity to use those waivers as a model for reducing low-value care spending and investing in high-value care across the industry. Mark Fendrick, director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and professor of the division of general medicine, department of internal medicine and department of health management and policy at The University of Michigan, shares how payers can make that transition.

Moving from In-Person to Virtual Care in a Collaborative Care Setting

How can practices that engage in collaborative care transition from in-person care to virtual care? What does the future hold for integrating these two forms of care delivery? Sudhir Rao, MD, medical director at Pain and Spine Specialists of Maryland, shares how his practice shifted from in-person to virtual care in just a week during the coronavirus pandemic and how he increased his patients’ access to behavioral healthcare specialists using virtual care.

Leveraging Care Coordination, Technology to Improve Patient Experience

The patient’s experience of care has an impact beyond rankings and retention; it can affect the patient-provider relationship and the patient’s wellbeing overall. Emily Sokol, director of research at Xtelligent Healthcare Media, shares the results of the latest Insights report on patient experience, covering care coordination strategies, relevant technologies, and the influence of the coronavirus pandemic on healthcare organizations’ strategies.
To access the report, visit our corporate website: https://www.xtelligentmedia.com/insights/overcoming-challenges-to-effective-patient-experience

Evaluating Progress in mHealth, Recapping Telehealth21 Virtual Summit

Progress in mHealth, connected health, and telehealth can be evaluated from multiple angles, including regulatory changes and technological advancements. Eric Wicklund, senior editor of mHealthIntelligence, explains how mHealth technologies and regulations have evolved and what needs to happen for that evolution to continue. He also reviews the conversations at the Telehealth21 Virtual Summit.

Building Up Home-Based Healthcare, Breaking Down Siloed Care

Home-based healthcare was once the primary nature of healthcare. It took the coronavirus pandemic to bring this care setting back into the spotlight. Kristen McGovern, convener at Moving Health Home, and Chris Johnson, vice president and head of corporate development at Landmark Health, discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on home-based care, how value-based care can bolster home-based care, the barriers to home-based care, and more.

Leveraging Population Health Data to Promote, Bolster Advanced Primary Care

All high-value providers will aim for cost-savings, but advanced primary care practices recognize that population health data is key to lowering healthcare spending. John Collier, president and chief executive officer of Proactive MD, and Jeremy VanderKnyff, executive vice president of health data science, value, and validation at Proactive MD, share about the role that population health data plays in advanced primary care.

Designing Quality of Care Metrics, Processes with Providers for Providers

As the healthcare system pivots towards value-based care, some healthcare professionals may now take it for granted that quality measures are essential to high-quality care. But how can healthcare organizations design quality measures with both the provider and the patient in mind? Anthony Romeo, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and chief medical editor of Orthopedics Today, details how healthcare organizations can collaborate with providers to develop effective quality of care measurements.

Assessing the State of Value-Based Care in 2020, Expectations for 2021

Throughout 2020, speculations abounded as to the impact that the coronavirus pandemic would have on the progress of value-based care. Emily Sokol, director of research at Xtelligent Healthcare, reveals the trends that emerged through the most recent Value-Based Care Assessment.
To access the report, visit our corporate website: https://www.xtelligentmedia.com/insights/value-based-care-assessment-2020