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Siloed data continues to hold back health systems from realizing the potential of value-based care, especially when it comes to managing their revenue cycle and improving health outcomes.

Health plans in the US have seen consistent advancements owing to the rising competition in the payer market. There are four critical factors that determine a health plan’s performance-outcome, process, access, and patient experience. The care delivery process and access to healthcare have seen significant improvement in the last couple of years due to developments in medicine and health plans’ robust provider networks and improved consumer digital interfaces.

For U.S. healthcare to realize its goals of better health outcomes at lower care costs, enhanced payer-provider collaboration is critical. Value-based care and corresponding payment models are the key enablers of that collaboration. Most health systems and physician groups engage in some collaboration with health plans, but a significant number have superficial efforts.

Providers today face more competition for patients than ever, and those patients have contemporary consumer expectations for both real-world and digital service, convenience, and quality.

In an outlandish episode titled “Spock’s Brain,” Star Trek’s Chief Medical Officer turned to a conversational AI called “Teacher” to help him perform a risky surgical procedure he’d never done before: transplanting Mr. Spock’s brain.

This is part two of our "VBC's Tipping Point" series. If you missed the first part, you can read more about why value-based care is closer than you think. In the previous article, Amy Stevens, General Manager of Provider Performance and Innovation at Innovaccer, debunked three common myths about the barriers faced by health systems in transitioning to value-based care: