206 Panel: How Can Alternative Payment Incorporate Consumer and Patient-Focused Support Technologies

Consumers are increasingly using secure messaging, mobile applications, and other digital devices to capture and share health information with their providers in real time. Use of patient generated data is an effective approach for engaging patients and their families, ensuring that care results in better outcomes, and decreasing costs associated with unnecessary readmissions and difficulties with adherence.  This session will focus on how payment models can incorporate tools that enable patients to electronically access and manage their own health information, which is foundational to patient engagement. Speakers will share information about current patient-facing technologies – such as patient portals (including access to EHR/medical data and patients’ clinical and progress notes), mobile health applications, and wearable devices – and discuss how alternative payment can drive new ways of bidirectional information sharing with consumers. This session will also look at how APMs can and should be driving progress in the collection and use of patient generated health data. It will also highlight resources for developing or enhancing tools, and public initiatives such as MyHealthEData and Blue Button 2.0, which can help ensure that patients can control their healthcare data and share it with all their providers, all while keeping that information safe and secure.

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