The transition from a fee-for-service model to a value-based care model requires healthcare organizations to re-evaluate their technology and in most cases invest in new solutions. Population health management is a focal point for organizations amidst the changes in the delivery model and payment reform and hospitals and health systems rely on technology to transform data into meaningful information that outlines the characteristics of their population and identifies high-risk patients in order to manage chronic diseases and deliver enhanced preventative care.
One of the biggest challenges for healthcare organizations is the shear amount of data they have to manage. Internal and external, disparate data sources that reside in silos make it nearly impossible to generate a complete picture. Bringing this data together to deliver a 360-degree patient view is critical for population health management, operational performance and enhanced patient care.
A centralized data warehouse houses data from across the enterprise and provides healthcare teams with a complete view of all of their patients and allows them to better manage the individuals and populations they serve. When internal and external data, including claims, are located in one repository, key stakeholders can generate meaningful and actionable insights to improve operational performance and enhance patient care.
Cadence Health, now part of Northwestern Medicine, a large Epic user, wanted to leverage the native capabilities of Epic to manage their population health initiatives and their value-based care program. Cadence Health engaged Perficient because of their work at ProHealth Care, the first healthcare system to produce reports and data out of Epic’s Cogito data warehouse in a production environment.
By leveraging Epic’s Cogito and Healthy Planet, Northwestern Medicine is able to track the health of their population and evaluate whether or not patients with chronic diseases are proactively getting care. They also have real-time reports generated that provide their physician’s with a dashboard view, designed to instantly provide them with an overview of the performance of their patient population across all registry-based measures.
Want to learn more about Northwestern Medicine’s value-based care journey? Join Perficient and guest speaker, Rob Desautels, Senior Director IT, Cadence Health for a webinar on Thursday, August 27th at 1:00 PM CT.
During this webinar we will:
- Analyze how Epic’s Healthy Planet and Cogito platforms can be used to manage value-based care initiatives.
- Examine the three steps for effective population health management: Collect data, analyze data and engage with patients.
- Discover how access to analytics allows physicians at Northwestern Medicine to deliver enhanced preventive care and better manage chronic diseases.
- Discuss Northwestern Medicine’s strategy to integrate data from Epic and other data sources.
