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PHM
Pranam Ben
integration challenge integrating five or six EHRs with a
population health management tool.
More advanced, cloud-based population health man-
agement platforms, however, can be easily integrated
with any EHR system. That means that these tools can
easily capture information from across the care continu-
um and normalize the data so that every provider can
easily access and interpret the information regardless of
their location or specialty.
When vital data is accessible in real-time, physicians can
have deeper insight into their patients’ health status and
risk level. Providers can then efficiently and confidently
move forward with interventions and treatment plans
while managing reporting requirements on standard
quality instruments such as the Medicare Access and
CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Quality
Payment Program’s (QPP’s) Advanced Alternative
Payment Models (APMs) or the Merit-based Incentive
Payment System (MIPS).
Making The Data Do The Work
Although nearly all patient information is now available
electronically, too many physicians and providers need
to manually access, capture and combine data from
multiple systems, including the lab, to have a holistic,
but also granular view of their patient or population risk
level and care utilization. Not only do physicians no
longer have time for such investigations, this inefficient
process adds to costs that ends up impacting revenue
under value-based care payment models.
Instead, CINs and other integrated healthcare organiza-
tions are recognizing the need for a centralized popula-
tion health management tool to deliver timely clinical
insight in a fraction of the time. When combined with
crucial lab data and other information from across the
care continuum, CINs can reduce care costs to maxi-
mize their reimbursement in value-based care payment
programs, such as the QPP.
“More advanced, cloud-based
population health management
platforms, however, can be easily
integrated with any EHR system.”
meet the author:
Pranam Ben
Founder & CEO
The Garage
About The Garage:
We’ve had that eureka moment. We’ve brainstormed, refined,
built, revised and launched successful technology solutions.
Cultivating great ideas – and successful business models – is
what we do best. It’s who we are. Our ability to question
everything, observe every minute detail, network internally and
externally and experiment via rapid prototypes builds a culture of
innovation across the company. Our execution discipline purely
focuses on delivery of all work products on time and on budget.
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