Data Infrastructure Bolsters Providence’s Value-Based Care Arrangements

Renton, Wash.-based Providence health system participates in 140 value-based care agreements. During a panel session at the Value-Based Health Care Congress this week, Deepak Sadagopan, Providence’s senior vice president of value-based care and population health informatics, described how critical a strong data infrastructure is to the transition away from fee for service.

Sadagopan’s role is to lead the transition from volume to value across the portfolio of different payment models, and in the process, support that transition to a data-driven approach. “That is where the importance of data infrastructure emerges in the space,” he said, “because you cannot drive a transition into value-based care without using information to empower every aspect of decision making — on the clinical, administrative and the business side.”