Digital Health Strategy for Value-Based Care

In recent years there has been a push for digital transformation in the value-based care terrain in healthcare to accelerate the savings and outcomes yielded to date. While enticing, there needs to be a clear strategy and assessment process for VBC entities to determine if digital transformation is appropriate.

The best way to do that is to look at what factors make VBC entities successful clinically, operationally, and financially. Then understand if any of those success factors can be achieved, improved, or accelerated with the introduction of a digital solution.

Organizations should determine if technology can automate, deflect, or optimize the drivers of success across clinical, operational, or financial efforts, such as:

• Reducing readmissions
• Increasing PCP referrals
• Managing patient care transitions across the care continuum
• Improving care coordination in the PAC setting
• Identifying rising risk
• Escalating to appropriate levels of care