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Patient engagement is all about empowering patients to make their own healthcare decisions, a concept that will become even more vital as the healthcare industry continues to shift to value-based care. To improve health outcomes through informed decision-making and encourage people to become actively involved in their health, some of the leading healthcare providers use Innovaccer’s versatile patient engagement suite, InConnect Outreach.

While the COVID-19 pandemic gave us the necessary push to establish virtual care as a viable model of receiving and delivering healthcare, it also allowed us to apprehend the challenges of making virtual care a living reality. Addressing the need for an end-to-end virtual care solution aimed at facilitating seamless televisits, Innovaccer launched its Virtual Care Network (VCN) solution. The versatile VCN solution can function with other Innovaccer applications or be used as an independent tool for an integrated user experience.

Healthcare reimbursements and increasing consumerism have made it critical for healthcare executives to understand and unlock the power of their organizations’ data. Health systems are progressively leveraging their data to eliminate waste, enhance efficiency, and deliver upgraded patient service. For public or private fee-for-service organizations, the market demands competition on clinical, financial, and service outcomes founded on the data examined by providers, payers, patients, and purchasers.

As the healthcare industry emerges from a challenging year following the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, payers are increasingly adopting new strategies to capitalize on the new trends in delivering healthcare services. While payers act as catalysts for driving a significant portion of providers’ income, the latter will have to revamp their relationship with payers since the healthcare industry may continue feeling the impact of the pandemic long after the health crisis abates.

Telehealth and virtual care have become the new normal for the healthcare industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. While telehealth was making gradual progress, the pandemic accelerated this transformation to bring in ten years of change within a matter of months. Telemedicine has become the digital front door to care on-demand, facilitating effective care delivery anytime, anywhere.