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22 POPULATION HEALTH 24% of Payers, Providers Planning Population Health Program, KPMG Survey Shows By Kelly Gooch P ayers and providers are embracing population health programs, despite challenges associated with the shi from fee-for-service to value-based care, ac- cording to a survey conducted by KPMG. For the survey, KPMG gathered responses from 86 people who identified themselves as working for a payer or healthcare provider during KPMG's webcast on Dec. 2. The survey found 44 percent of respon- dents have a population health platform in place that is being "utilized efficiently and effectively," while another 24 percent are in the process of implementing a popula- tion health program within the next three years, according to KPMG. Only 10 percent of survey respondents do not plan to im- plement a population health platform and another 21 percent of survey respondents said their organization doesn't require a population health platform. KPMG said 30 percent of survey respondents reported the biggest individual barrier to im- plementing a population health program is aggregating and standardizing information from multiple sources. Additional barriers cited by survey respondents were stakeholder adoption (10 percent) and integrating with clinical work flows (10 percent). Another 34 percent of survey respondents cited "all of the above," which includes those barriers, as well as enabling patient engagement, funding in- vestments, and selecting appropriate vendors as additional challenges, according to KPMG. "e complaints about incorporating tech- nology into clinical workflows are fairly common and have many doctors and others involved with care delivery dissatisfied with EHRs and other tools," Todd Ellis, princi- pal at KPMG who co-hosted a population health-themed webcast for the firm, said in a news release. "is can be remedied by better training and incorporating clinicians into the process of selecting technology." KPMG also asked survey respondents about value-based payments. The firm said 36 percent of survey respondents reported some of their revenue is generated by val- ue-based payments, while 14 percent said the majority of revenue is generated by such payments. Additionally, 26 percent of survey respon- dents plan to enter value-based payment arrangements in the next one to three years and only 7 percent of the organizations do not plan to do so, according to KPMG. e remaining 17 percent of healthcare organiza- tions do not require value-based payments. n 12 Hospitals With the Most ER Visits | 2017 By Mackenzie Bean H ere are the 12 hospitals in America with the most emergency room visits for fiscal year 2016. Totals represent the amount of ER visits tallied for a single facility, rather than total ER visits for a whole health system. This list is based on several sources of information and all figures are verified by individual hospitals. 1. Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Medical Center — 217,208 2. Parkland Health and Hospital System (Dallas) — 171,390 3. NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln (New York City) — 163,622 4. St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (Paterson, N.J.) — 162,635 5. Banner Desert Medical Center (Mesa, Ariz.) — 144,512 6. NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County (New York City) — 139,040 7. Erlanger Medical Center (Chattanooga, Tenn.) — 138,740 8. NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst (N.Y.) — 136,643 9. Reading Hospital (West Reading, Pa.) — 133,498 10. Boston Medical Center — 132,148 11. Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.) — 130,892 12. Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital — 130,644 n 30% of payers, providers say the biggest barrier to implementing a population health program is aggregating and standardizing information from multiple sources.