Over the past decade, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has shifted its payment structures away from volume-based care and toward value-based care. This means that payers and providers, who had been reimbursed based on how many patients were treated and for what diagnoses, have also shifted the management of patients’ health from treating single episodes of illness or injury to evaluating the non-clinical social factors that contributed to the patient needing care in the first place.
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The global pandemic caused by the spread of COVID-19 has forever shifted life on our planet. The sheer scale of change would be hard to believe if we weren’t all living it in real time. It’s not difficult to imagine the reaction at a family gathering or holiday party in December 2019, with a relative or colleague trying to convince us that in just three months’ time everything would be... Read More -
While Salesforce didn’t exactly end the use of software – it just moved software to the more accessible cloud – it revolutionized how companies conducted their business. Spatially Health, like the Salesforce of 2000, has taken a novel approach to understanding what influences individuals’ healthcare needs and their decisions to seek care. Missing from the approach – ZIP codes. Like software of the past, ZIP codes have gone to the proverbial graveyard. Read More
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I spend a lot of time with healthcare executives and payers, along with their respective business strategists and data analysts, who have been conditioned to develop their strategic and operational plans based on clinical, financial and, sometimes, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data. But those metrics, which just capture the number of medical interventions performed and services offered to them based on their medical needs, tell only half of the story. Read More
