| | September 20168UTLOOK Healthcare Tech The Mount Sinai Health Sys-tem has become a leader in shifting to a value-based health care model from a fee-for-service model. It is one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the country, consisting of seven hospital campuses and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, plus ambulatory and other facilities located throughout the metropolitan New York region. Our mission is to im-prove the quality and efficiency of care and the patient experience for our di-verse set of patients, while advancing medicine through our unrivaled edu-cation and research. Our value-based service strategy is centered on provid-ing compassionate patient care that is continuous and coordinated both across our hospitals and when patients are at home, leading to fewer hospitali-zations, and ultimately lowering costs for our patients and our Health Sys-tem. Consequently, the Mount Sinai Information Technology department must aggressively transform our tech-nology products and services in order to support our Health System's vision and direction. Our population health manage-ment program is a major strategic component for facilitating this shift to a value-based health model. An im-portant population health initiative for the next few years will be to enhance our technologies to support New York State's Delivery System Reform Incen-tive Payment Program (DSRIP), which is a main driver for the Medicaid Rede-sign Team (MRT) Waiver Amendment. To meet this mandate and receive the expected incentives, Mount Sinai formed the Mount Sinai Performing Provider System, which entails numer-ous initiatives such as a home-based primary and palliative care program and an advanced multi-disciplinary ad-olescent health program, all requiring extensive technology capabilities. A major component of our popu-lation health strategy is our unique Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform, which provides secure, time-ly, and flexible patient information to our physicians, clinicians, affiliate or-ganizations, and insurance payers. This HIE platform will be extended to work with our Performing Provider System partners and services developed by By Kumar Chatani, EVP & CIO, The Mount Sinai HospitalMount Sinai: Revolutionizing Healthcare IndustryNew York State in order to enable inte-grated patient information exchange. In addition, our HIE platform will be en-hanced to support physician outreach initiatives, marketing strategies, and competitions for research grants/con-tracts. Equally important, our HIE plat-form will support new initiatives to en-courage and improve communications OpinionIn my"Our patient information, as well as our organizational data, must be safeguarded from growing and ever-evolving cyber threatsKumar Chatani
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