Domain Study Healthcare Analytics

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Healthcare analytics provides insights to help improve patient care, services and existing methods.

New delivery models like medical homes and accountable care organizations integrate care and share patient data to coordinate care and measure outcomes.

Precision medicine considers individual differences in genes, environments and lifestyles to target specific illness treatments and shift from reactive to predictive and preventative care.

Name- Azeem Khalipha

PRN- 18030242012
MBA – DSDA (2018-20)

Domain study – Healthcare analytics assignment 1

Question 1- What is healthcare analytics?


Answer- Healthcare analytics is the part of the investigation that spotlights on
offering bits of knowledge into hospital management, patient records, costs,
diagnoses, and more. The field covers a wide swath of the human services
industry, offering bits of knowledge on both the large scale and smaller scale
level. At the point when joined with business knowledge suites and data
representation devices, medicinal services investigation enables supervisors to
work better by giving constant data that can bolster choices and convey
significant bits of knowledge.

For hospital and medicinal services supervisors, healthcare analytics give a blend
of financial and administrative data alongside data that can help patient care,
better administrations, and improve existing methods.

Question 2 - How does Value-Based Healthcare Approach translate to new


delivery models?
Answer- The proliferation of value-based healthcare is changing the way
physicians and hospitals provide care. New healthcare delivery models stress a
team-oriented approach to patient care and sharing of patient data so that care is
coordinated and outcomes can be measured easily. Two examples are reviewed
here.

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VALUE-BASED CARE MODELS: MEDICAL HOMES
In value-based healthcare models, medical care does not exist in silos. Instead,
primary, specialty, and acute care are integrated, often in a delivery model called
a patient-centered medical home (PCMH). A medical home isn’t a physical
location. Instead, it’s a coordinated approach to patient care, led by a
patient’s primary physician who directs a patient’s total clinical care team.
PCMHs rely on the sharing of electronic medical records (EMRs) among all
providers on the coordinated care team. The goal of EMRs is to put crucial patient
information at each provider’s fingertips, allowing individual providers to see
results of tests and procedures performed by other clinicians on the team. This
data sharing has the potential to reduce redundant care and associated costs.
VALUE-BASED CARE MODELS: ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) were originally designed by the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide high-quality medical care to
Medicare patients. In an ACO, doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers
work as a networked team to deliver the best possible coordinated care at the
lowest possible cost. Each member of the team shares both risk and reward, with
incentives to improve access to care, quality of care, and patient health outcomes
while reducing costs. This approach differs from fee-for-service healthcare, in
which individual providers are incentivized to order more tests and procedures
and manage more patients in order to get paid more, regardless of patient
outcomes.
Like PCMHs, ACOs are patient-centered organizations in which the patient and
providers are true partners in care decisions. Also like PCMHs, ACOs stress
coordination and data sharing among team members to help achieve these goals
among their entire patient population.
Clinical and claims data are also shared with payers to demonstrate
improvements in outcomes such as hospital readmissions, adverse events, patient
engagement, and population health.

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Question 3- What is Precision Medicine?
Answer- Precision medicine is an innovative approach that takes into
consideration individual differences in people’s genes, environments, and
lifestyles. The promise of precision medicine gives medical professionals the
resources they need to target specific illness treatments, further the development
of scientific and medical research, and keeps families healthier.
Precision medicine can help reduce acute hospital admissions resulting
from medication side-effects and adverse reactions. This can also lead to shifting
treatment from conditions to predictive and preventative care. Additionally,
precision medicine can use data to spot prescription inefficiencies. It can be used
to study how genes affect a person’s response to particular drugs, as well.

Question 4- What is the role of nurses in value-based healthcare approach?


Answer- Nurses will have access to genetic information that will allow
personalized, tailored treatments to the patients in value based healthcare
approach
There will be a few challenges too. For instance, nurses will need a more in- depth
knowledge of each patient disease profile as opposed to just general diagnosis.
Possibly the biggest obstacle in fully adopting precision medicine is time, as
collaborations among patients, healthcare practitioners, and researchers are vital

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