Quality measures have been around for a long time. Before the move towards global payment, most contracts in the “Pay for Performance” era included both ambulatory and hospital-based quality measures. As provider organizations and ACOs transition to global payment, quality
Recently, I have been thinking about solo efforts vs. team efforts. When I was in medical school, almost all of the teaching was directed towards learning how to care for one patient at a time. And for much of my
Last week, we launched our new ‘What in the Health IT’ blog series and explained the meaning of Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC). Here, chief medical officer Dr. Rich Parker provides tactical guidance to providers who are in HCC-based payment models.
At Arcadia, we believe data can be beautiful. Visit our online, interactive Data Gallery to explore high-resolution versions of all our data visualizations. Here, we discuss questions raised by The Final Year: Where and How We Die. In the year before you die –
As organizations take on financial risk and transition away from fee-for-service to value-based models of care, focus has intensified on how to effectively manage the riskiest and most expensive patients. In this value-based world, patient engagement, chronic disease management, and