Healthcare Must Climb the Analytics Maturity Ladder
Healthcare Must Climb the Analytics Maturity Ladder
Most healthcare organizations are only halfway up the data and analytics maturity ladder. Heeding Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates, they are instituting electronic health records (EHRs) and using analytics derived insights to improve short-term outcomes, such as decreased hospital admissions and complications. Moving up the D&A maturity ladder in this new era of payment reform requires organizations to become data driven cultures and use data to gain a holistic picture of patients’ healthcare touch points.
Most healthcare organizations are only halfway up the data and analytics maturity ladder.i Heeding Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates,ii they are instituting electronic health records (EHRs) and using analyticsderived insights to improve short-term outcomes, such as decreased hospital admissions and complications.
However, in order to meet the Centers for Medicare- & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) directive to tie 30 percent of all Medicare payments to value-based payments by 2016 (and 50 percent by 2018), providers need to start using data and analytics (D&A) on a higher level. Reaching the top of the maturity ladder will eventually mean harnessing predictive and prescriptive analytics to practice personalized medicine. In the meantime, however, healthcare organizations should be striving to use D&A to coordinate patient care and tailor interventions based on population health measures.
As illustrated in the scenario at right, all care starts with the individual.
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