By Charlotte Jackson   Among people whose job it is to mine healthcare data for insights on population health and quality of care, there can be a tendency to assume that insights generated from one source of data (e.g., traditional Medicare) will naturally prove to hold true when applied globally to [...]

CareJourney Open Data Report By Ben Bigelow The ecosystem of healthcare data is vast. There are electronic health records (EHRs), medical claims, lab results, biometrics, and a whole slew of other data sources, including open data published by organizations like the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). At CareJourney, [...]

By Timmy Del Vecchio, graphic by Ben Bigelow As CMS recently made unembargoed Performance Year (PY) 2017 results available to ACOs in late August, ACOs were able to view not only PY 2017 financial expenditures relative to benchmarks, but also the ACO’s overall quality score for the performance year. For [...]

Last week, CMS published the 2017 performance year results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). It comes on the heels of a new proposed rule from CMS that is meant to drive more accountable care organizations (ACOs) to take on downside risk, something few ACOs have done in recent [...]

By Abbas Bader As most of you are already aware, CMS released a rule proposing changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program earlier this month.  By now, you have probably read several summaries of the key provisions of the rule, if not the full 607 pages of the rule itself.  In [...]

By Edward Yurcisin As our President, Aneesh Chopra, often notes, there appears to be a “generational consensus” from leaders in Washington seeking to tap the expertise of the American people to solve big problems. This is exactly what happened on Monday August 13thwhen the White House Office of American Innovation and [...]

By Chris Lester and Sabrina Chugani Roughly 20 percent of the United States population lives in rural areas. Despite this, rural America faces a number of health-related challenges, some of which are structural, while some are related to regional differences in health and health care in this country. Compounding these [...]

By Vinith Annam   Creating Patient Risk Groups In a previous blog post titled Harnessing Open Health Data & Methodologies to Serve Value-based Care Networks, CareJourney discussed Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s development of a publically available patient segmentation model which identifies a small percentage of Medicare beneficiaries who [...]

Our patient segmentation model finds that for MSSP populations across the country, most patients fall into the major complex chronic illness segment (to qualify for this segment, a patient must have two or more complex conditions or at least 6 non-complex conditions) and historically most of the day-to-day work providers were [...]

By Aneesh Chopra, President and Co-Founder of CareJourney Earlier today, at the opening ceremonies for the largest health IT conference of the year, Jared Kushner made a surprise appearance committing, unequivocally, to a “whole of government” approach to ensure patients and their caregivers can connect their health data to any application that helps [...]