Value-based Care

What Are the Top Common Social Determinants of Health?

October 16, 2023 - The social determinants of health have surely become cemented as a key consideration in the medical field. But it is essential for healthcare professionals to know and examine each determinant, ranging from food security to adverse childhood experiences, to get a full handle on the concept. Universally defined as “conditions in which people...


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Benefits of Care Coordination Tick Up with Patient Activation

by Sara Heath

When it comes to care coordination and social determinants of health interventions, patient engagement and activation are key, according to new data in JAMA Network Open. The study, published by...

What’s The Best Way to Discuss Value-Based Care with Patients?

by Sara Heath

There might be a right and a wrong way to discuss value-based care with patients, with new data from advocacy group United States of Care showing that terms like “quality-focused care” are...

PROs & PROMs: Understanding Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures

by Sara Heath

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are yet two others in a long list of quality reporting that happens in healthcare. Defined as reports coming straight from the patient without provider...

Is ACO REACH Model Poised to Bring Health Equity to Value-Based Care?

by Sara Heath

Medical Home Network (MHN) isn’t new to care coordination. For 14 years, the Chicago-based organization has focused on bringing care coordination into the primary care office, using community health workers to provide...

Why PCPs Are Key to Coordinating Patient Engagement with Payers, ACOs

by Sara Heath

All stakeholders in the healthcare industry have gotten better at patient engagement in the past few years, as value-based care models have made it imperative that patients are involved in their own care management. But as more voices...

Why Rideshare in Healthcare Is Key to Value-Based Care Success

by Sara Heath

Across the nation, fee-for-service is giving way to value-based care contracts. And as those scales tip, Buck Poropatich, the new head of healthcare for Lyft, thinks rideshare will be key to value-based care success. This comes after...

Top Clinical Quality Measures Impacted by Patient Engagement

by Sara Heath

To understand the role of patient engagement in value-based care success, it is essential for healthcare leaders to understand the role patient engagement plays in clinical quality measures. Clinical quality measures are tools used to...

Defining Patient Engagement for Value-Based Care

by Sara Heath

Value-based care, the care delivery and reimbursement reform movement that emphasizes outcomes over volume of services rendered, could not be successful without strong and meaningful patient engagement. Defined by the Centers for Medicare...

What Are Patient Perceptions, Experiences with Value-Based Care?

by Jill McKeon

Value-based care is an unfamiliar concept to most patients, but the majority of surveyed healthcare consumers said they would support a system where providers are paid based on value rather than...

Top 5 Practice Management Tools for a Good Patient Experience

by Hannah Nelson

Positive patient experiences are at the heart of care delivery, which means that organizations should make care as simplified and patient-centered as possible. As the healthcare system continues to...

How Coronavirus Sparked Industry Collaboration, Team-Based Care

by Sara Heath

Healthcare is facing a never-before-seen global health crisis with the coronavirus outbreak, with infection rates on a meteoric rise. But at the same time, healthcare is seeing something else that’s unprecedented: a massive...

How to Use Team-Based Care to Improve the Patient Experience

by Sara Heath

As healthcare professionals are working to support a positive patient experience in an industry increasingly embracing value-based care, they are leaning on team-based care for support. Team-based...

How Do Patient-Centered Medical Homes Support Patient Engagement?

by Sara Heath

As healthcare professionals work to meet the financial and care quality demands of value-based care models, they need to lean on practice transformation and patient engagement strategies to meet those...

Healthcare Organizations Expect to Focus on Consumer Engagement

by Sara Heath

Consumer engagement is the name of the game for health payers and healthcare industry stakeholders, according to a recent report commissioned by Change Healthcare and the Health Care Executive Group...

How to Create, Conduct Community Health Needs Assessments

by Sara Heath

Healthcare organizations working toward addressing the social determinants of health are using community health needs assessments (CHNAs) to determine the best path forward. From uncovering community...

What Providers Should Know to Improve Patient Access to Healthcare

by Sara Heath

Patient engagement, consumer satisfaction, and patient access to healthcare are three of the most critical pieces of the value-based care puzzle. As outcomes, satisfaction, and patient loyalty become more important to financial security...

How Will MACRA Impact Patient Engagement, Care Coordination?

by Sara Heath

In 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) with an overwhelming bipartisan majority. The complex piece of legislation has a number of  provisions, each of which affects different areas of the...