Here’s what you should know:
1. While value-based care is still in its infancy, Shelton, Wash.-based Mason General Hospital CIO Tom Hornburg said differing standards and quality measures between payers and health systems are giving hospitals “a difficult time.”
2. He said, “The barrier is that crosswalk between all the quality measures and the hospitals trying to get all of the data out of their EHRs.”
3. Differing EHR systems with a lack of interoperability also hinder value-based care adoption.
4. New York City-based Staten Island Performing Provider System CMO Sal Volpe, MD, said value-based care adoption is being stalled by a failure to consider the social determinants of health.
“Everything that’s done clinically — hospitals, hospital work, chemotherapy — only affects about 10% of a person’s health outcomes,” he said. “Twenty percent is impacted by what would be considered social determinants of health.”
5. To speed along adoption rates, Mr. Hornburg said health systems should revisit Lean concepts and work on standardizing quality reporting.
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