Event Summary September 15, 2016
2016 Accountable Care and Health IT Strategies Summit
Chicago, IL
The 2016 Accountable Care and Health IT Strategies Summit took place in Chicago, IL on September 8th and 9th. The event was hosted by Healthcare IT Connect and featured over 45 presentations from payer, provider, business, and technology leaders. The focus of the conference was accountable care models and aligning the various players in the healthcare system to succeed in this new world.
Three Trexin Value Based Care experts attended the event, with a particular interest in how care coordination is being utilized in support of Accountable Care models. Several speakers addressed this topic, highlighting the importance of care coordination to the success of Value-Based Care, as well as the challenges of implementing this function. Technology, practice change management, training, and incentives will all be critical to the growth of care coordination.