Population Health Data and Analytics
Population Health Data and Analytics companies help value-based organizations build a full understanding of the health of their population. Delivering on VBC outcomes typically requires access to a broader set of population data, such as claims data, ADT (admission, discharge, and transfer) data, EHR and clinical data, authorization data, pharmacy data, lab data, and social determinants of health (SDoH) data. Vendors in this category integrate these sources into a single platform and run analytics to generate population health insights. These analytics can include identification of high-risk patients for action or stratification of patients into risk cohorts for different interventions.
Criteria:
Technical capabilities to ingest multiple data sources relevant to VBC and deliver in a single platform
Analytics capabilities to deliver population health insights relevant to VBC goals
Product Usage: The Innovaccer platform is used by various team members to ensure continuous tracking and documenting of patient goals, actions, interventions, and barriers and to manage tasks effectively.
Strengths: The key strengths of Innovaccer include the timeline feature which allows the tracking of the long-term care journey, the ability to import data from other systems like PointClickCare, and the stability of the platform despite continuous expansion.
Weaknesses: The program falls short in the area of population health as it does not provide an overview, instead of requiring access to individual patient information.
Overall Judgment: While the introduction of Innovaccer to the team was overwhelming at first, due to the detail needed in documentation, overall the consensus is that it has streamlined many processes and decreased manual work.
Product Usage: Lightbeam provides a central analytics management hub, tracking patient lives at-risk, financial benchmarks, and offering comprehensive care management.
Strengths: Lightbeam manages to simplify and organize complex health data into understandable blocks, providing clear visibility, and excellent audit support capabilities.
Weaknesses: Lightbeam suffers from real-time application limitations and slow data processing speeds, causing duplicate work and inefficiencies.
Overall Judgment: Despite its limitations, Lightbeam’s simplicity and payor integration make it a suitable choice for smaller practices with limited technological expertise.