White Papers

Discover how Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform empowers healthcare organizations to optimize population health and care management at scale.

According to a survey, employers expect a 5.3% increase in the total cost of health benefits in 2021 and project the average cost of healthcare to reach $15,500 per employee in 2021. To manage rising healthcare costs, a data-driven approach is essential for organizations.

Health benefits are complex. Employees don’t understand them as well as they want and need to. Care navigation can help fix the problem.

As the winds of digital transformation sweep through the healthcare sector, the need for healthcare organizations to maintain long-term customer relationships is creating a patient-centered experience. Rising patient self-reliance has transformed care delivery norms, empowering patients to participate in their healthcare proactively.

Quality management strategies in healthcare can be challenging to implement without standardized metrics as different patients may have widely different problems. To ensure high-quality care, treatments need to be personalized as they don’t necessarily always align with standard, template-based processes, making tracking difficult and creating quality gaps. This whitepaper covers strategies that one can adopt to facilitate quality management and improve health outcomes.

Healthcare organizations have shown interest in a model that could implement private sector approaches to risk-sharing arrangements and payments while minimizing administrative burden and downside risk. The payment model options available under Direct Contracting can be appealing to provider organizations since the model is expected to reduce burden, focus on beneficiaries with complex chronic conditions, and boost participation from organizations that have not yet engaged in Medicare FFS or CMS Innovation Center models.