Industry Insights

One of the challenges in working in healthcare data analytics is the requirement to keep up-to-date on many diverse topics. The eHealth Initiative provides a multitude of such opportunities, and we enjoyed attending the recent National Forum on Data and Analytics at which we heard a wide variety of presentations on many topics related to the management and analysis of healthcare data.

Here’s an interesting Wall Street Journal debate on the “Physician Pay for Performance” issue.  One writer favors pay-for-performance incentives, arguing that fee-for-service payment creates improper incentives for providers to over-treat patients. This writer focused on the financial incentives, and measured success based on changes in utilization patterns or costs.