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Health care’s bipartisan religious movement: An interview with Aneesh Chopra
Aneesh Chopra was the first CTO of the United States. Since then, he has been involved with government initiatives including the President’s Strategy for American Innovation, Startup America, the Open Innovator’s Toolkit and Blue Button. Today, he’s President of CareJourney, an open data membership service building a rating system for [...]
Interoperability proposals could push HIEs toward new services
As HHS gears up to finalize long-awaited rules on interoperability and information-blocking, much of the industry has focused on their likelihood to spur a market of new patient-facing apps. But the rules will also open new opportunities for some longstanding interoperability players: health information exchanges. HIEs have been key players [...]
Those Who Switch, Part 2: Investigating Characteristics of Medicare Advantage “Switchers”
In the last post, we highlighted trends in the migration of beneficiaries between Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage in the United States. In doing so, we can understand why this is such a hot topic for so many of our members across various markets. We are regularly asked: What can we learn about Medicare Advantage populations [...]
CareJourney’ data analysis featured in POLITICO’s Health Care article on the CMS Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)
POLITICO recently published an article that talks about the level of enrollment in the CMS Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and results thus far. According to the article, the program, approved late in the Obama administration and carried out in the Trump era, targets patients on the verge of developing diabetes. [...]
Data Sharing and Interoperability: Payer-Provider Data Exchange in Successful Shared Accountability Models
To achieve success in APM implementation, payers and providers need to construct interoperable data architecture to store and transmit data from claims, electronic health records, and other sources. From the payer perspective, their infrastructure must also be able to assess and compare provider cost and quality performance; share raw data [...]
UHS Case Study Webinar Recap: Improve Network Design and Management with Claims Data
Listen in as Mallory Cary, ACO Operations Director of Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the nation’s largest hospital management companies, and Abbas Bader, Director of Product Development at CareJourney discuss their collaboration on building better and more optimized networks using claims data and insights from CareJourney’s Network Advantage platform. [...]
Those Who Switch, Part 1: Understanding Geographic Trends in Medicare Advantage Enrollment
CareJourney’s Network Advantage platform is largely built upon the full Medicare fee-for-service claims dataset, but it is used by members to draw insights about population health and quality of care for all Medicare enrollees. While fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are sometimes considered as two distinct groups, these populations are fluid, as beneficiaries can switch enrollments in any given year. [...]
Reflections on the Flywheel Effect of Government on Digital Health Tech | AcademyHealth
In this interview with Greg Downing, CareJourney President Aneesh Chopra reflects on 10 years since the HITECH Act and offers his thoughts on the role of transparency, patient data access, and interoperability in delivering better care. [...]
CareJourney Index Webinar Recap: A Trusted and Transparent Way to Measure Provider Performance and Optimize Networks
Signed into law in March of 2010, the Affordable Care Act directed the release of Medicare data to the private and public sectors for performance measurement. Until today, we haven’t had a trusted or transparent measure of costs or outcomes for the healthcare delivery system at the physician level. Most of today’s existing methodologies leverage [...]
Member Spotlight: How a CareJourney Member Leverages Network Advantage and Population Insights for Market Expansion, Network Optimization & Integrity
The past decade has seen a remarkable increase in the number of lives covered in risk-based contracts. According to a recent article by Leavitt Partners published in Health Affairs, “At the end of the first quarter of 2018, we were tracking a total of 1,011 ACOs representing 1,477 distinct active accountable care payment contracts with public and private payers. [...]
Flywheel to Success: Aneesh Chopra talks to MedCity News at the Seventh annual Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit
Oliver Wyman and MedCity News are partnering to highlight insights from today's healthcare leaders. Over the course of the seventh annual Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit, Kevin Truong of MedCity News sat down with the former US Chief Technology Officer and President of CareJourney, Aneesh Chopra and talked about how [...]
Obama’s tech chief on how healthcare CIO, CTO job duties should be split
As healthcare organizations adapt to the increasing importance of IT by hiring new executives to oversee digital transformation, it can be difficult to navigate the plethora of tech-related titles. Aneesh Chopra, who served as the first U.S. chief technology officer under former President Barack Obama [...]