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Connected patient care drives reductions in readmission rates

When Kanav, Sandy, and I started Innovaccer seven years ago, we were just a bunch of 20-something engineering geeks who were thinking about entrepreneurship and how we might be able to build cool stuff that would change the world.

A “fireside chat” with Innovaccer CEO Abhinav Shashank and Mubadala Capital’s Alaa Halawa

Seth Joseph's two-part article, "The EHR Is Dead, Long Live The EHR Platform," caused a stir when it was published by Forbes. Seth makes the case that the nation’s embrace of EHRs has failed to meet expectations, including improving care coordination, reducing overutilization and waste, enhancing patient safety, and more. On today's show, Sean Hogan interviews Seth to discuss the current and future state of the EHR; the need for information liquidity to enable holistic clinical insights and care delivery; and the role of innovation, platforms, and "network effects" to help providers transform and drive better clinical, financial, and operational outcomes.

One of the key tenets of success in value-based contracts is measuring, tracking, and improving quality scores. While we know that meticulous quality measurement is key for improved outcomes, there’s a lot of room for improvement when it comes to quality analytics and reporting. As organizations work to increase value-based care investments, they face various reporting challenges, including:

Few things have impacted healthcare over the past decade as much as the CMS Innovation Center's strategy. The past ten years of industry participation in Innovation Center testing and learning laid the groundwork for CMS's effort to drive broad and equitable