John Squire, president and COO at ambulatory software vendor Amazing Charts, provides 4 Health IT predictions for the year 2016:
Issues will give new answers for EHRs. With certain notable exceptions, EHRs are mostly blamed for dissatisfaction and physician burnout. Now EHR vendors are discovering the issue-oriented medical record, a more intuitive access that works the similar way a doctor thinks. It arranges clinical records and practice workflows around particular patient issues, making it faster and more satisfying for physicians to utilize. Look for recent issue-based EHR networks to acquire market share in the year 2016.
Chronic Care Management (CCM) will grow rapidly. To promote effective care management of chronic sicknesses, CMS launched CPT code 99490 in 2015. This code compensates contributors for outreach between office visits, like telephone conversations, medication reconciliation, and coordination among caregivers. Latest levels of technology integration will drive the capability of clinicians to finish the CCM reporting of remote care from inside their EHR.
Healthcare charges will get more transparent. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) supported millions of persons to sign up for high-deductible policies, which means routine healthcare is paid for out of pocket. Various sufferers are demanding more price transparency from their physicians and insurers. As a result, nontraditional value-based payment models-like Medicare Advantage, Direct Primary Care (DPC) and on-jobsite/near-jobsite clinics-will sustain to progress in popularity.
EHR interoperability will sustain to be elusive. EHR interoperability survives within Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) groups. But, outside of these agencies the business case is weak and active involvement in sharing information is relatively low. Until the industry as a whole accepts the requirement for true interoperability and areas population health and seamless exchange of information ahead of corporate silos, the complete potential of interoperability will not be recognized.
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