Is your EHR making you less efficient?
May 3, 2016
More and more physicians around the country are adopting EHR with the promise of improved patient safety, billing efficiency, and the accumulation of a clinical dataset that can support decision making within their organization – not to mention available federal
How Health Plans Can Turn Customer Touch Points into Competitive Advantage
May 3, 2016
Every health plan must choose how to win the battle for membership and competitive advantage while reducing operational costs. To make this decision, the health plan’s business goals play a critical role in determining how to spend budgets effectively. For
What Happens when Goliath Buys David?
May 3, 2016
The structure and scope of the healthcare industry continues to change in response to the healthcare reform legislation and general market trends. One apparent result of these changes is that many healthcare organizations are finding new incentives to consolidate. As
Managing Total Medical Expense while Improving Health Outcomes
May 3, 2016
As our healthcare system evolves and payment reform grows, healthcare providers are increasingly pushed to deliver higher quality care and manage costs in order to curb the explosive growth in national health care expenditures seen in past decades. Arcadia Solutions leverages
Mind the Data Quality Gap
May 3, 2016
Improving the health of at-risk, vulnerable, and chronically sick populations remains a daunting challenge for the healthcare community. Management of complex populations requires comprehensive and quality data on patient health and demographics. However, the healthcare ecosystem does not have quality
Contract Performance for High Value Measures
May 3, 2016
Arcadia’s unique approach to EHR data aggregation is our largest differentiator compared to other analytics and population health solutions. Arcadia connects directly to 98% of major EHRs in the country. The clinical quality improvement tool they have developed allows them
A Year of Utilization
May 2, 2016
For an ACO managing nearly 30,000 patients, the quantity of data that builds up over a year is immense. This chart visualizes every visit for each of those patients over time. Every bubble represents an individual visit, with the size
What Lies Beneath?
May 2, 2016
In healthcare analytics, claims data are ubiquitous. They have been available for decades and are highly structured and standardized. Unfortunately, they are also relatively sparse, containing only a handful of procedure codes and diagnoses for each episode. EHR data, on
Managing Change and Disruption in Patient Population Management
April 29, 2016
Under changing payment models, organizations looking to employ effective patient population management programs need more than the ability to react to past performance. In order to implement an effective population management program, health systems need: The capability to continuously improve