Accountable Care

"If we can manage patients on the front side of their diagnoses, and continue that management longitudinally, it's going to have a significant impact on the escalation of patients' chronic conditions," one expert says about the value of preventative care.

The goal of the new nationwide ecosystem is to simplify patient access through virtual care pathways that work in tandem with local delivery, enabling higher quality and cost efficiencies for providers, says Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman.

Health systems should get organized on alignment, transparency and reciprocity to further their VBC efforts, and providers need support to better understand and interpret population health data, says John Fryer, president of Tribus and CRO at Lumeris.

Also: eClinicalWorks now offers a suite of patient engagement capabilities through a collaboration between Ero Health and HealthTalk A.I.

The LLMs, trained on healthcare and reimbursement concepts and terminologies, could improve population health management, care management and coordination, CRM, VBC, and self-serve analytics, the company said.