The proliferation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), spurred by the healthcare industry’s shift from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance, has focused healthcare executives’ attention on clinical outcome metrics. Yet the greatest barriers—individual clinician practices—remain difficult to manage within the population-health clinical-delivery value chain. The solution: leveraging software as a service (SaaS) solutions to drive greater measurement and adherence to evidence-based practice plans.

Moving beyond outcome metrics

This article is intended to help you do several things: 1) learn about the adoption of SaaS solutions in the U.S. healthcare market; 2) become knowledgeable about how SaaS solutions can help address key barriers to innovation in current clinical practice; and 3) explore how to leverage SaaS offerings to identify leading indicators for clinical performance (LICP) and better manage clinical oversight of multiple providers. The objective is to enable and accelerate a scalable implementation of continuous clinical practice improvement (CCPI).

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