Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization: Leaping forward in analytics for population health management

BIDCO Director of Data Integration Scott Samways spoke at the Northeast Healthcare Innovation Summit - and Healthcare Innovation editor-in-chief Mark Hagland wrote an excellent article highlighting their groundbreaking work in analytics for population health management.

Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization (now part of Beth Israel Lahey Health) serves 200,000+ patients under MSSP, Medicaid, and commercial risk-based contracts. As a leader in value based care, BIDCO has invested heavily in analytics to support value based care performance across a network of 600 primary care physicians, 2,000 specialists, and 8 hospitals.

At the Northeast Healthcare Innovation Summit, Director of Data Integration Scott Samways explained how BIDCO has:

• integrated 160+ individual EHR instances across 20+ different EHR platforms
• integrated 30+ claims feeds
• implemented data quality initiatives to deliver highly-trusted information across the health system for 2 million+ patient records
• leveraged predictive analytics to improve patient outcomes, reduce cost and variation, and match the right patients with the right programs

Healthcare Innovation editor-in-chief Mark Hagland has excellent coverage of Samways’ presentation in his article “At the Northeast Healthcare Innovation Summit, Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization’s Leaps Forward” — we encourage you to check out the entire piece.