Michigan Cancer Centers to Use mHealth in Value-Based Care Project
19 cancer care centers across the state will use an mHealth app to gather patient-reported outcomes in a project to improve care management and develop a better reimbursement model for oncology care.
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By - Nineteen cancer care centers in Michigan will soon be using an mHealth app to capture patient-reported outcomes in an effort to develop a new Medicare reimbursement model for oncology care.
The Michigan Oncology Quality Consortium is partnering with California-based Varian to launch the connected health platform, which will allow patients to chart their treatment and give care providers the ability to manage care on the go. The Henry Ford Cancer Institute and Munson Medical Center are the first of 19 to deploy the app, with the rest scheduled to come on board by April 2020.
The project, authorized under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), aims to identify measures for the Quality Payment Program that would improve clinical outcomes and help the nation’s healthcare industry in its move to value-based care.
