Medical technology has led to a explosion of medical data over the years due to advances and growth in federal and state regulations. While these advancements have been essential to improving physician care, clinical practices are often strained by the requirements to acquire, submit, search, sort, process, and respond appropriately to this healthcare data tsunami, particularly in the quest for patients, payers, peers, and more people that patients, payers, peers, and regulators request each year.
Issues regarding data overload, lack of coordination and issues that were not in place at the time have contributed to doctors' burnout. Access, processing and transformation of medical information to provide efficient, guidelines-based workflows can help you practice habit objectives. This means managing costs of care, improving population health, and improving the health experiences of patients and clinicians.
More technology alone is not the solution, but how you can leverage it is important. Practices must accept rather than fight against other value-based care tools that automate specific workflows, reduce administrative burdens and improve quality of care.
Adopting technology and data analytics
What should a clinician do? Simple management is not enough. The future of healthcare is to leverage data for proactive patient care and strategic decision-making.
To thrive in today's value-based care environment, clinical practices need to surround patient care with organized data that transform into patient-specific practical information, driving activity at the time of care, and driving activity during patient encounters. It is important to recognize the role of technology and data analytics in driving these transformative changes.
The integrated technology platform allows you to facilitate revenue cycles, IT, product development, reporting, leadership, practice transformation, customer service, on-call support, case management, and communication of relevant data that underpins your healthcare system across your financial team.
EHRS provides essential features to perform practices, but it must complement homemade and vendor-provided applications that optimize activity.
Today's integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is set to revolutionize healthcare delivery by providing predictive analytics, enhancing decision-making and optimizing resource allocation. For example, AI-driven insights can help identify at-risk populations, allowing targeted interventions that improve outcomes and reduce costs.
These programs are promising, but not without risk. In partnership with managed security services providers (MSSPs), practices can protect sensitive data as cyber threats become more refined and compliant.
Building a sustainable healthcare ecosystem
Slowly and surely, our US healthcare system is shifting from a fee-fee model to value-based care, due to the need for cost management and quality improvement.
With its focus on creating a sustainable healthcare ecosystem that balances innovation and accessibility, primary care networks need to remember their key role in a larger environment to promote community-based solutions. By adjusting incentives and encouraging collaboration across sectors, we can create resilient systems that adapt to changing needs and deliver value to all stakeholders.
To achieve this, providers need to work closely with policymakers, payers and technology partners to create coordinated approaches that address the unique challenges faced by individual communities. This includes investments in infrastructure that supports telehealth and remote patient monitoring, extending care to improve access beyond traditional settings.
The only way to ensure care is to focus on the patient. This is to prepare a healthcare system to meet evolving demands in the future. By fostering a culture of innovation to promote better outcomes and adopting technological advances, we can go beyond our current challenges, realize the potential for value-based care, and ultimately create a more sustainable, patient-centered, effective healthcare system.
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Dr. Bartley Britt is the Chief Medical Officer of Plyvia Health. He previously served as chief medical officer for Bright Health Care for IFP/MA and Neue Health Business Lines. Chief Clinical Officer of Brighton Health Plan Services. Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer and Clinical Officer, Carecore National.
Bartley also served as leadership positions at UnitedHealthcare/Oxford Health Plans.
Bartley began her career at Kaiser Permanente after earning a Masters in Public Health from the Columbia School of Public Health and completing a fellowship in preventive medicine at Cornell. He received his pediatrics resident and chief residency at NYU, a MD degree from the State University of New York, and a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Cum Laude, Alpha Omega Alpha and the University of Vermont, Phi Beta Kappa. He continues to be a fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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