The movement to value-based care will necessitate a major paradigm shift in how physicians practice medicine. They can no longer be “cowboys” in the wild west of fragmented, uncoordinated care delivery where information technology is focused on fee-for-service. Instead of cowboys, we need “quarterbacks”, communicating with an interdisciplinary care team and facilitating hand offs across the care ecosystem. In this environment, information technology is like the offensive line, protecting the physician and creating the opening for a meaningful play.

Our guest this week is Dr. Matt Lambert, Chief Medical Officer of Curation Health, an advanced clinical decision support platform for value-based care that drives more accurate risk adjustment and improved quality program performance by curating relevant insights from disparate sources and delivering them in real time to clinicians and care teams. Author of two books, and with more than 20 years of experience as a clinician, CMIO, and change leader in value-based care, Matt’s insights will expand your vision of health value!

Episode Bookmarks:

4:00 Physician Workflow Optimization in the movement to Value-Based Care (Cowboys vs. Quarterbacks)

6:30 VBC is requiring providers to optimize workflow to support team-based care (the Quarterback role)

7:00 APIs will enable EHR systems to evolve over time to better support value-based care

7:30 Curating meaningful information (and minimizing noise) to providers at the point-of-care

8:00 Using AI to decrease cognitive load for providers

8:20 “Healthcare doesn’t have a data problem. It has a clinical workflow problem.”

9:00 Physician Burnout ("a public health crisis that urgently demands action")

10:30 How VBC is changing regulations and documentation standards for electronic health records

12:00 “The CMIO role is the bridge, it’s the translator between the clinical world and the technical world."

12:25 NLP models often overwhelm providers with data that is not meaningful

12:45 Reducing disruptions and hard stops in provider workflow with technology-enablement

13:00 Dr. Lambert discusses his own personal experience with physician burnout

14:45 Simplicity as the ultimate form of sophistication and the artful design of clinical documentation solutions

17:00 How healthcare technology companies come short when they don’t have strong clinical leadership

18:00 Expanding focus beyond point-of-care to clinical documentation integrity teams

18:30 HCC recapture for risk adjustment and how algorithms can help capture new HCCs

19:30 Using NLP to identify new diagnoses from discharge summaries

20:30 Dr. Lambert discusses a use case for HCC coding optimization with RAF lift to improve ACO performance

21:45 How HCC coding optimization can improve patient engagement and better address SDOH

24:20 Referencing Trenor Williams, MD and his work in SDOH and social risk intelligence

24:45 Social applications of the risk adjustment model

25:45 The impact of COVID-19 on the future of value-based care

26:00 Referencing his recent HIStalk article on subscription revenue models

26:15 Post-pandemic interest from providers in subscription models and VBC

27:00 Deferred care during the pandemic and how that will affect population health

27:50 Risk adjustment over FaceTime and over the telephone

28:30 The similarities between post-COVID healthcare in US and the National Insurance Act of 1911 in the UK

29:30 Post-viral syndrome and long-term sequelae related to COVID-19

33:00 Eric Neil (Chief Information Officer,