Creating a Network Infrastructure to Support Administration of Value-Based Care

Value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models are designed to reward better patient outcomes while reducing the costs of healthcare. The American Medical Association (AMA) identifies several components necessary to make a VBC ecosystem successful. These include a clear, shared, patient-centric vision, the leadership and professionalism of healthcare workers, and broad access to care for anyone who needs it. 

But there are two other essential elements without which VBC cannot succeed. One is the accessibility of unified patient Longitudinal Healthcare Records (LHRs) on a permissioned basis with required entities. The other is a robust infrastructure that supports both the complex many-to-many hierarchies of the healthcare ecosystem and complex healthcare data capture, digitization, and sharing.