Value Based Care Summit News and Resources for Healthcare

Combating Chronic Disease through the Social Determinants of Health

October 31, 2018 - Healthcare providers do their very best to understand everything they need to know about their patients during the few scant minutes they are able to spend with each individual. Once or twice a year, or maybe when a sore throat strikes, providers collect data on current medications, chat about new problems, and order a prescription or two before sending the individual on his...

Value-Based Care Requires Clear Analytics Goals, Scalable Health IT

April 23, 2018 by NextGen Healthcare

As the principles of value-based care become increasingly important for success in the healthcare delivery environment, provider organizations are facing some tough choices around how much financial...

How NPs, PAs Add Value to Population Health Management Teams

April 11, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) can offer vital support to organizations undergoing their value-based care transitions, especially as providers start to develop population...

How the Healthcare “Value Chain” Leads to Big Data Analytics Success

November 30, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations may come in many different sizes, shapes, and specialties, but all providers working in the industry today have one major trait in common: their big data is getting bigger by...

Artificial Intelligence is Altering Healthcare, but Not with “Magic”

November 27, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Depending on who is making the statement, artificial intelligence is either the best thing to happen to healthcare since penicillin or the beginning of the end of human involvement in the medical...

How FHIR Offers a New Approach to Working with Healthcare Data

October 12, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations seeking a simple, intuitive, and standardized way to solve many of their most pressing big data problems don’t have to look much further than the HL7 Fast Healthcare...

Value-Based Care Requires Good Big Data, Better Communication

June 28, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Brevity may be the soul of wit in the literary world, but it’s the opposite of a good thing when it comes to safe, comprehensive, and cost-effective patient care. In the value-based care...