Moderator Julian Harris (far left), chairman and CEO of ConcertoCare, addresses panelists during the “Population Health Technology 2.0” session. From left to right: Springtide Child Development founder and CEO Jia Jia Ye, Cohere Health Founding Partner Siva Namasivayam, Curation Health founder and CEO Kevin Coloton, and CareMax Chief Strategy Officer Ben Quirk.
“Technology’s still incredibly fragmented in healthcare. Here in Florida, we’re lucky we have a really good state HIE,” Quirk said, referring to the state’s health information exchange. “Within 15 minutes of a patient walking into any emergency room across the state, we know about it. We can’t do that in New York, we can’t do that in Tennessee.”
He said it could be useful to shift from “data maximalism” to “data minimalism,” so that providers can act on the most high-quality data at low volume.
“To be able to be successful in a value-based care world, you’re consuming an incredible amount of information and having to take action on it,” Quirk added.
He also noted that collaboration and integration will be major components of the next generation of digital health solutions, as part of a continuum of care encompassing not just primary care but behavioral and specialty healthcare.
Incentives for Changing Healthcare Models
Finding financial alignment is the major ongoing challenge for value-based care. Partnering with health plans and risk-bearing providers have been strategies to move the needle.
“From the payer landscape, they realize that a lot of their higher cost conditions are managed by specialists, so payers have a real appetite for contracting with specialists in a value-based care manner,” Mike Edgeworth, chief population health officer at the platform developer Octave Bioscience, said during a session on the next generation of remote patient monitoring.