Payers are in a unique perspective to drive the use of evidence in practice. Whether through coverage decisions, utilization review, or coinsurance, there are many strategies payers use to reflect the value of specific therapies within the marketplace. So, what information do payers feel they need to guide these efforts? Raj Sabharwal, M.P.H., Director at AcademyHealth will discuss his article “Developing Evidence That Is Fit for Purpose: A Framework for Payer and Research Dialogue,” which describes efforts to develop and refine a decision-making framework that considers payers’ perspectives on the utility of evidence generated by different types of research methods, including real-world evidence. Panelists from the National Pharmaceutical Council and AcademyHealth’s Corporate Council and will provide insight into the decision-making framework and will provide perspectives from their own institutions. 

In October 2007, Dr. Berwick of the Institute for Health Improvement, based in Cambridge, charted a new course for providing healthcare in this country.  He proposed a conceptual framework that is designed to improve the patient’s care experience, while at the same time reduce the cost of care and attend to improved health of populations of people. Simply called the Triple Aim, it calls for a strategic focus on all three dimensions at once.  There has been no time previously that healthcare in the United States has been focused on all three domains at one time. A radical idea at first, the Triple Aim has now entered the mainstream and many healthcare organizations have adopted its tenets.

Organizations and communities that, in fact, attain the Triple Aim (or come close to it) have healthier populations to care for, have better coordinated care, and reduce the per capita cost of care.

The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) is hosting this webinar that will present panelists from both public and private payers to discuss their organization’s goals, how they define "value," and what their organizations are doing to promote value-based care.

NACHC is excited to announce a series of Electronic Health Record (EHR) webinars to provide you the specifics of the EHR PRAPARE templates.  In these webinars, pilot testing teams of health centers and health center networks will talk about how they developed the EHR-specific PRAPARE template and the particulars in using the EHR template for data collection and reporting for use in care planning and management.  Health centers will discuss their experience implementing the EHR-specific template in their own setting and how they fit data collection of social determinants of health into their workflow.

In this webinar, the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (who developed and tested the NextGen PRAPARE template) will present their on-the-ground experiences so that others can learn how to implement the template in their own NextGen EMR system, how to use the NextGen PRAPARE template to collect and then report the data to use for care planning and management.