In this week's readings, you'll see that healthcare is a significant and growing portion of the US economy as a percentage of our national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and far exceeds the spending of other industrialized nations.

Yet, common measures of health and healthcare outcomes fail to demonstrate performance commensurate with our spending. Indeed, the United States frequently lags it's peers in such metrics. Given that, policymakers and payers (of most kinds) have focused on strategies to drive 'value' in healthcare delivery.

• Find and summarize (in no more than a paragraph) an article that discusses some type of provider payment-reform initiative toward value-based care (e.g., pay-for-performance, bundled payments, risk-sharing, centers of excellence, narrow or high-performance networks, etc.). Please provide the URL for the article.
• After you summarize the article, identify as many ways that you can think of in which health information technology could support or relate to this activity.

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