New FHIR® data interoperability application helps payers quickly transform and manage critical data for organization-wide sharing, visibility, and care team us Data interoperability is a hot agenda item for many healthcare organizations. 1. Stakeholders across the...
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Track 3 of the Making Care Primary Model: Enable and Optimize Continuous Care Coordination
Track 3: Using Quality Improvement Frameworks to Optimize Care Delivery and Gain Financial Benefits In our last few blogs, we’ve been looking at CMS’ new Making Care Primary (MCP) model, which aims to have Medicaid advance value-based care at the primary care level...
Track 2 of the Making Care Primary Model: Integrating & Expanding Care Services
Track 2: Implementing Advanced Primary Care CMS’ recently announced Making Care Primary (MCP) model advances the agency’s drive to shift from a fee-for-service model to a value-based care model. The MCP model takes a tiered approach, with three tracks of...
Future of Care Chat – Exclusive: Behind the Scenes of Creating HELIOShub
Creating the first FHIR® Integration Platform as a Service offering Many healthcare organizations are working hard to improve interoperability and bring data into compliance with HL7® FHIR® standards. However many of the data interoperability “solutions” on the market...
How to Get Started with the Making Care Primary Model
Track 1: Building the Infrastructure for Better Value-Based Primary Care CMS recently announced its new Making Care Primary (MCP) model, a voluntary initiative set to launch in July 2024 among selected participants in eight states. As of September 2023: “CMS is...
Future of Care Chat – Episode 6: Resources & the Challenge in Achieving Healthcare Data Interoperability
Why is healthcare data interoperability so difficult to achieve? The technical staff currently needed to manage healthcare data exchange to meet interoperability standards and requirements is extensive, burdensome, and costly. A streamlined FHIR® data solution could...
Future of Care Chat – Episode 5: Reasons Why FHIR® Matters in the Modern Healthcare Data Exchange
Why does FHIR® matter so much in the modern healthcare data exchange? A conversation with VirtualHealth product team leaders about the different reasons why FHIR®matters in the modern healthcare data exchange. There are a number of reasons why the HL7® FHIR® standard...
Future of Care Chat – Episode 4: Understanding Why Organizations Want and Need a FHIR® Solution
Why do organizations want and need a FHIR® solution? The FHIR® standard is important because it allows the developers to build standardized browser applications that enable the user to access clinical data from any healthcare system regardless of the operating systems...
Future of Care Chat – Episode 3 – Diving into FHIR®
What is FHIR? Why does FHIR matter in healthcare data management? The HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources 1) standard defines how healthcare information can be exchanged between different computer systems regardless of how it is stored in those...
How Can Accountable Care Organizations Address the Data Silo Challenge?
Nearly a decade ago, a Forbes contributor referred to data silos as “a medical tragedy.” Jump forward 10 years and we still have data silos. And the very real human consequences they create such as suboptimal health outcomes related to missed or delayed diagnoses,...