Category: ACO

A selection of health policy stories from Ohio, Oregon, New York, Colorado, Iowa, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, California and Minnesota. …read more    

As part of the Masters Program in Health Informatics, I produced videos on The Role of Informatics for Accountable Care Organizations. Links are below. I will be updating this post with videos each week. Key Learning Objectives are: To discuss the establishment of ACO Models of care and legislation that created them. We will also…

0 A Health Affairs study finds physician-led ACOs facing challenges with infrastructure for care transition management and IT development If there’s one thing that we at Healthcare Informatics have been stressing for years now, it’s that physician engagement is absolutely crucial to the success of any IT implementation, from the rollout of a core electronic…

Video Link: Informatics and Technology Internet resources can provide benchmarks and analysis for Medicare Populations. The CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse website is located at www.ccwdata.org. As described on the site, the warehouse provides Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary claims and assessment data, linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. This website provides dashboards that…

A new study has come out in Health Affairs, one that sheds new light on the opportunities and challenges of physician leadership in the ACO movement, including IT and care management challenges An important new study has come out in the June 2014 issue of Health Affairs. The article, entitled “First National Survey of ACOs…

0 Ever look at an Interface Schema? It is like looking at a road map with streets leading to various destinations. Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), Meaningful Use, Data Warehouses and every clinical or business Healthcare system depends on interfaces. Yet it is often the most overlooked, underappreciated, and misunderstood systems in Healthcare Information Technology. read…

ONC’s chief medical officer tells CMIOs to look forward to the future of learning organizations in healthcare Speaking to an audience of about 240 CMIOs and other medical informaticists, Jacob Reider, M.D., chief medical officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), urged his audience on June 18 to focus…

Launching Aledade Former National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, announces today that he is launching a new startup dedicated to helping primary care physicians form ACOs. The new venture is backed with a $4.5 million seed investment from Venrock. What should Congress do to help medical innovation? The House Energy and Commerce Committee…

Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the former National Coordinator for Health IT, is starting up a company that aims to help primary care physicians form and connect with accountable care organizations (ACOs). Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the former National Coordinator for Health IT, is starting up a company that aims to help primary care physicians form and connect…

Former National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari will lead a new startup to help physicians begin their own accountable care organizations. read more …read more