Humana has formed an alliance with Allscripts to provide eligible physician practices with incentives for implementing EHR technology that enables delivery of advanced clinical-decision support at the point of care.

Humana has formed an alliance with Allscripts to provide eligible physician practices with incentives for implementing EHR technology that enables delivery of advanced clinical-decision support at the point of care.

Humana will provide financial assistance to selected physicians for adoption of the Allscripts EHR as part of Humana’s Medical Home EHR Rewards Program. Physician practices that participate will receive valuable, timely clinical information – electronically – at the point of care, such as a notice of a preventive-care opportunity or information about a patient’s medical history that may not appear in a particular doctor’s patient chart. Humana will financially reward primary care physicians for improved clinical performance.

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“We’re excited about Humana’s partnership with Allscripts," said Bruce Perkins, senior vice president of Humana’s Health Care Delivery Systems and Clinical Processes Organization. "It enables us to work together to move the system toward a totally integrated, totally connected model that will improve our members’ quality of life, improve outcomes and lower health care costs. Humana is committed to driving outcome-based collaboration that advances the dialogue between payers and physicians to help our health plan members achieve lifelong well-being.”

Through Humana’s Medical Home EHR Rewards Program, physician encounters are measured in conjunction with nationally recognized HEDIS quality measures, which are designed to improve the overall efficiency of the health care delivery system, while also evaluating other measures such as generic-drug dispensing rate, mail-order usage, readmission rate and health-risk-assessment completion.

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“As we progress towards a value-based system of health, this initiative with Humana will deliver the real-time information that physicians and other caregivers need to make the best decisions for their patients,” said Glen Tullman, chief executive officer of Allscripts. “Allscripts believes that the key to better health care is turning information into insights that physicians use to improve both the quality and cost-effectiveness of care.”

Through their work with Humana and Allscripts, physician practices will be provided with individualized goals and regular feedback on clinical and other performance. They may also be eligible to receive additional financial benefits but only after the practices meet or exceed certain quality benchmarks.