Empowered Patient Podcast

Lynn Carroll, Chief Operating Officer at HSBlox, provides a platform to encourage collaboration between payers and providers in a value-based care system.  The success of VBC is based on the perspective of the patient and the ability to personalize the interaction with their entire care team. Assessing the needs of patients and using digital tools to engage patients is bringing the benefits of value-based care to a broader audience. Lynn explains, "On the data exchange side, this certainly gets us into the interoperability space. What we have seen is an emphasis on aligning the participants in the care team. Part of an assessment is to understand who a patient is seeing today, who they may have seen recently, or who are they not seeing anyone. But once you know the care team and that care team is in place, facilitating that data sharing component is a key part of the approach." "We have seen an attempt after stratifying a population to know where there are high-touch patients or folks with chronic disease tha