BasePath

At BasePath we believe that the most successful healthcare providers will be those who can best coordinate care by deploying teams of doctors using sophisticated information tools to improve quality, reduce cost, and keep patients safe and satisfied. BasePath was created to serve this vision. Allows doctors to create, customize, and share web apps... that help them deliver and document care -- without programming. Manages the creation and distribution of decision-support content used by the apps and creates sharable structured clinical data for analysis. Overlays current enterprise electronic health information systems to provide a single friendly user interface across different enterprise Health IT systems. Healthcare financing is quickly moving from fee-for-service to pay for value, in which value equals quality divided by cost. Healthcare organizations like hospitals and clinics must be able to coordinate care, deliver care more efficiently, and collect better clinical data to prove value to payers. Enterprise Health IT systems were not designed to do this, and many organizations are struggling as a result. Patients and providers continue to bear the brunt of increasing cost of care with relatively few improvements in quality of care. It is widely accepted that we must transition from fee-for- service medicine, which rewards the volume of services, to value-based care, which rewards higher quality and lower cost. Widespread replacement of paper charts with electronic systems such as EHRs has failed to support the transition to value based care as anticipated. But this has not stopped CMS and large insurers from moving forward with ACO's and other value based payment models. The entrance of large retail into primary care and the proliferation of innovative care delivery startup companies will create additional pressure on hospitals and specialists. To survive, they will have to not only provide higher quality at lower cost; they will have to be able to prove it. Enterprise Health IT systems were not designed ...Read More