But in order to get there, health leaders will need to take a “much for sophisticated view of how the presence of other conditions can impact measures to ensure that ACO performance is equitably assessed and compensated,” Dr. Bodycombe writes.
Further, Dr. Bodycombe says that improved electronic health records — something encouraged by ACOs — will help in the study and improvement of population health and in better understanding the implications of having multiple chronic conditions, or comorbidity.
“It is a safe assumption that the advent of new data streams drawn from electronic health records and other sources will dramatically alter the horizon of what is predictable and what can be managed,” Dr. Bodycombe writes.
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