topic: Scalability and Optimization
5 Optimal Steps for Creating a Pilot Data Warehouse By Alan Stadelhofer
Rather than becoming frustrated by the potential vastness of a data warehouse build, consider instead the advantages of thinking small. As in, start with a single data warehouse pilot project, learn your best practices from that experience, and expand accordingly from there.
ACOs: Implementing and Sustaining Value-Based Change By Bob Wadsworth
As seen in Health Intelligence Network. Just as “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” neither is an efficient, sustainable, and physician-focused accountable care organization (ACO). Instead, expect to embrace a stair-step approach to making the necessary changes in your care delivery and administrative practices. Competency and capability development is always multi-dimensional, so consider these five steps as a benchmark for your organization’s critical thinking on ACO development. Introduction In California, we’re now in what could be termed the “second generation”...
The Evolution of Pay-for-Performance Healthcare and Reimbursement: Part One By Mark Jahn
Over the next five years, the healthcare industry will experience a significant change in the primary reimbursement method as the industry moves from Fee-For-Service (FFS) to Fee-For-Value (FFV) reimbursement. Also known as Value-Based (VB) Purchasing, Pay-for-Performance, or Pay-for-Value, value-based reimbursement is not new to the healthcare industry. What is notably significant about the shift to value-based programs as the primary reimbursement method is the degree of dominance and the aggressive time frame. There are several recent examples that indicate this transition...