Equity is important to healthcare's ultimate combination of goals, says Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Kevin Ritter, Altera Digital Health's CareInMotion EVP, explains why more connectivity doesn't always translate to sustainable rural outcomes. He says focusing on clinical data access is more likely to improve the value of interoperability funding.
Continued funding from the federal Rural Health Transformation Program requires integrated data across providers. Making it easy for them to connect virtually to state systems is vital, says Dr. Tim Ferris, InterSystems' VP of healthcare practice.
Before jumping into interventions, the first step is quantifying the risk that's impacting the population and driving costs, says Saleem Tahir, COO of MedeAnalytics.
