What’s Hot at HIMSS and Why
This month’s happening event is the HIMSS conference and of course, HealthPals will be there! We’re excited to be in the room with the brightest minds in the health and IT space.
The two hot topics currently trending in healthcare are involving strategies to measure and improve quality care and how to address internal changes in a healthcare organization. In case you’re still trying to choose which session to attend — yes there are really that many to choose from — we’ve come up our top two pre-conference symposiums that cover areas that everyone in healthcare is talking about.
Quality Symposium: Meeting Performance Thresholds in a MIPS/Payment for Value World
Whether you are a physician, nurse, chief medical officer and even patient, the movement towards value-based care will definitely shake things up. With quality measures consisting of a huge 60% of the MIPS Composite score, this area is a big deal. So just like CMS’ value-based purchasing requirements, it all boils down to improving quality of care.
If your institution wants a piece of the $500M pool in 2019, this basically means that compliance of measuring these quality metrics is absolutely crucial.
Business of a Healthcare: Succeeding in a Value-Based World
As the healthcare industry is making a big shift from fee-for-service to fee-for-value payment reimbursements, being able to adapt is crucial in order to succeed financially, operationally and administratively. As the demand for better performance will increase, healthcare organizations will need to find innovating strategies to win financially as well. Having efficient workflows is especially important as the requirement of collecting high and specific data need to be captured by educated staff thus identifying major operational changes is key.
Even though the 2017 transition year provides some leniency on how involved healthcare institutions with this movement, but like other early adopters we want to get ahead of the game. Are you staying ahead of the game in this massive industry pivot? Stay tuned for our next blog posts to see how.
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