Gevity Healthcare Blog

For years we’ve been hearing that the US healthcare system is moving towards value-based care, whereby providers are paid through alternatives to the traditional, fee-for-service payment model. These alternative payment models include financial incentives linked to effectively managing a population or episode of care, such as shared savings, at-risk, pay-for-performance, care coordination fee, bundled payments or capitated payments. Today, approximately 60% of healthcare spend is tied to some form of value-based payment.

If you scan healthcare IT news regularly, you’ll notice a recurring theme: healthcare organizations of all sizes across the globe are dealing with an increasingly insidious, dangerous and expensive-to-resolve threat, and while it’s not biological, it is often infectious and can result in enormous financial and human costs.

Every few weeks, I take a look back on the stories that made an impact on me. Here is a roundup of my latest top 10 from May 1-15, 2019.

HL7’s Working Group meeting is coming to Canada from May 4 to 10, hosted at Le Sheraton Centre, Montreal. This presents a wonderful opportunity for Canadians to get up to speed on healthcare interoperability standards, and in particular, the one that’s starting to re-shape the healthcare industry – FHIR.

HL7’s Working Group meeting consists of several components: the FHIR connectathon, HL7 education, working group sessions and Clinicians on FHIR.

Every few weeks, I take a look back on the stories that made an impact on me. Here is a roundup of my latest top 10 from March 1-15, 2019.