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Value-Based Care

Improving Quality and Reducing Costs in a Medicare Shared Savings Program and ACO Environment

Today, many healthcare organizations are in the process of transitioning from a fragmented, volume-based fee-for-service model towards a coordinated, integrated, and value-based paradigm that strongly emphasizes the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient-centered care. This white paper will explore how health information exchange is essential to supporting efforts to improve quality of care and reduce costs.

FHIR Ignites Healthcare Sharing

October 08, 2015

The delivery of quality healthcare in the modern world is absolutely dependent on the availability of quality information. This is true whether the information comes directly from a clinician, a care coordinator or through an anonymized population analysis. The new HL7® standard, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR® pronounced “fire”), is attracting enormous interest from the wider healthcare community at a pace unmatched by any previous standard. This paper examines the drivers behind FHIR, gives an overview of what it is, describes how it will benefit healthcare information exchange and provides a prediction on where FHIR is heading.