The HIMSS 2023 Global Health Expo & Conference opens in Chicago on Monday, and among the many other health and tech news to be covered there, HIMSS will officially debut its chief model. into the latest, designed to focus on IT innovation in non-acute spaces where the most care is provided.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
The Community Care Outcomes Maturity Model, or C-COMM, from HIMSS Analytics is intended to help healthcare organizations track the digital maturity of care delivered across environments that rely on community.
This model aims to evaluate – among other modalities – primary care, telehealth and virtual care delivery, organizations specializing in maternal and child health, mental and behavioral health. C-COMM aims to provide a strategic roadmap to help those different organizations create more people-centered care plans and build a broader ecosystem for holistic care. throughout the life of the patient.
The new model is a modernized version of HIMSS Analytics’ Outpatient Electronic Medical Records Model, which tracks the maturity of IT for outpatient and acute care clinics. rescue.
With a focus on community care for all non-acute care delivery environments, C-COMM focuses on digital health imperatives such as healthcare, disease prevention, manage chronic illness at home and prevent hospitalizations and re-admissions.
The main goal of the model is to help public healthcare organizations:
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Measure value as they apply digital tools to expand their ability to care and track how data is used to monitor and manage performance and outcomes.
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Enhance personalized care delivery while increasing access, enabling greater choice in care delivery, building health literacy, and helping to increase enhance communication between providers and patients.
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Improve and enhance efficiency, productivity and resource usage management, channel analysis towards better results.
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Build data governance to help organizations build functionality and communication between different care teams.
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Achieve process efficiency, resource allocation, outcomes improvement, and population management goals with real-time data.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
HIMSS notes that the C-COMM model is particularly useful when suppliers of all shapes and sizes see their workforce and financial resources shrink – helping them build strategies to optimize efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness of data-driven decision support.
This is HIMSS’s latest long-established analytic maturity model suite – which has been helping healthcare organizations worldwide to build and measure technology maturity and service delivery. their care since the EMR Adoption Model was first created in 2005.
At HIMSS23 in Chicago this week, Dr. Rohini Omkar Prasad, senior advisor in digital health for analytics at HIMSS APAC, will host a new Community-focused education session: The Outcome Maturity Model Community Care. It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 from 10:15-11:30 a.m. CT at the North Building, 3rd Floor, Hall B of McCormick Place.
Healthcare organizations interested in the C-COMM maturity model can also email [email protected] for more information.
ON PROFILE
Toni Laracuente, senior vice president and head of global analytics at HIMSS, said: “The majority of the world’s population seeks health services outside of traditional hospitals.
“C-COMM is an important addition to HIMSS Analytics’ suite of digital transformation maturity models and a critical success factor for health systems that provide consumers with access to connected health outcomes. digital, user-friendly, convenient connectivity to healthcare services, with improved patient engagement and experience at home or in our community,” she said – adding that the model also helps improve “health equity for vulnerable populations and supports the HIMSS vision, to realize the full potential of everyone, everywhere.”
Mike Miliard is executive editor of Healthcare IT News
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Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS.
Ferric Fang, Ning Rosenthal and Sarah Warner will provide more details at HIMSS23 session “The Power of Real World Data in Driving Healthcare Decision Making.” Scheduled for Tuesday, April 18, 1:30pm-2:30pm CT at South Building, 5th Floor, room S503.
