By Nathan Elliott – When NCQA validated its first ten clinical data streams in late 2021, Data Aggregator Validation looked like an experiment. Four years on, it looks like infrastructure.

NOW on-demand, Value-Based Care Insights host Daniel J. Marino speaks with Dr. Angel Martino-Horrall, anesthesiologist, consultant, and perioperative operations expert, to discuss the evolving role of anesthesia leadership in surgical services governance.

By Rafiq Ahmed – For decades, one of the most consequential numbers in healthcare was effectively invisible to the providers delivering care: what a payer actually reimburses a hospital for a given service. Health systems negotiated contracts based on internal assumptions, historical precedent, and incomplete intelligence about what the market was actually paying.

By Gurkan Camok MSc – Healthcare AI is often introduced through a performance metric: accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, or speed. Those measures matter, but hospital adoption is determined by a different question. Can the system deliver useful, understandable guidance inside a real clinical workflow without creating new delay, confusion, or risk?