Information Builders presents seven challenges to overcome when ensuring patient-centered care with Information Management.

1. 7KeyChallengesintheMovetoValue-BasedCare
Ensuring Patient-Centered CareWith Information Management
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2. Information is a Central Issue
•Slow transfer of information about
patients can create potentially
dangerous gaps in care
•95 percent of healthcare providers say
that interoperability challenges limit
their capability to transfer data from
one medical center to another1
1
Lorenzetti, Laura.“5 Trends That Will Redefine Your Healthcare Experience in 2015,”
Fortune Magazine, January 2015.

3. Challenge #1
Aligning IT With the Business
Business Concerns
•Being patient-centered
•Improving outcomes
•Increasing value-based reimbursements
These require new and better-integrated
data, so success with value-based care
demands a new level of IT support.2
2
Hawkins, C. Matthew.“Alignment in Health Care: What is
Our Strategy?” Physicians Practice, April 2015.

4. Challenge #2
Keeping PaceWith the Evolving Role of Health Information Management
•Healthcare facilities’systems have
become more diverse and distributed
•Data quality must be improved early
in the process
•A mastering process allows for a single
version of the truth
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Improve the Patient Journey With Omni-Patient,
at bit.ly/omni-patient-journey.

5. Challenge #3
Enabling Advanced Informatics
Information collected in different formats
by systems that are not interoperable is
likely to yield few insights.
Unified platforms for integrating data,
managing its quality, and presenting
it through intuitive views can provide
the insight needed to improve
outcomes.3
Download our fact sheet,
Information Management for Health Providers,
at bit.ly/OmniPatientFacts.
3
American Sentinel University, “Health Care Informatics:
The Trouble With Disparate Data,” The Sentinel Watch, April 2013.

6. Challenge #4
Leveraging Data to Support Process and Outcome Improvement
•Outcomes
•Value
•Quality Incentives
Force priorities to shift to performance
and process improvement.4
Information Management platforms allow
clinicians, administrators, and nurses to
receive insights and metrics in a timely
way – with trusted data.
4
Clark, Cheryl.“Top Healthcare Quality Issues for 2015,”
Health Leaders Media, January 2015.

7. Challenge #5
Measuring Physician Performance From New Perspectives
Understand where physicians are in terms
of their performance – and then support
programs that drive improvements in both
quality and efficiency.5
To do this requires richer data across all
domains.
Have the best data you can to deliver
better quality care.
You can get a feel for your quality of data
by taking our Data Quality Challenge
at bit.ly/DQChallenge.
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The National Business Coalition on Health. ”Physician Performance
Measurement and Reporting Introduction,” The National Business
Coalition of Health, January 2011.

8. Challenge #6
Adopting New Incentive and Reimbursement Models
CFOs must pay more attention to
actual patient costs and the risks
associated with different patient
cohorts.
Effective information management
and integrated patient data gives the
CFO a vehicle for vastly improved
decision-making.
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9. Challenge #7
DealingWith Diverse Data Infrastructures
Value-based care requires full transparency
into the entire patient journey.
•75 percent of accountable care organizations
struggle to collect outside data
•62 percent are challenged by data integration6
Providers must retrieve, consolidate, and
manage the quality and consistency of data
from its incompatible formats, then make
it sharable.
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eHealth Initiative. “2015 ACO Survey Results Webinar,”
eHealth Initiative, October 2015.

10. 7 Key Challenges in the Move to
Value-Based Care
Today’s healthcare providers worry about
so much more than just regulatory
compliance. They need to tap into the
wealth of information they manage to
enhance service delivery and address
competitive pressures, while maintaining
profitable operations and striving toward
value-based care models.
For more information on innovative information management solutions that can assist with
this transition, please visit us at informationbuilders.com and download our full whitepaper
at bit.ly/7KeyChallenges.