Category: ACO

Former National Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, MSc announced this morning the launch of Aledade, a new company that will help independent physicians form Accountable Care Organizations. The Bethesda, MD startup is backed by $4.5 million in seed funding from Venrock. Mostashari said in a statement, “Empowering doctors on the front lines of medicine with cutting…

The following is a guest blog post by Todd Stansfield from The Breakaway Group (A Xerox Company). Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series. The Managed Care movement dramatically transformed healthcare in the 1990s. For the first time, our industry discovered increased margins by conserving the services we provided. Now,…

With characteristic poetic flourish and $4.5 million in seed money, former ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, MD, today launched Aledade, a startup aimed at helping primary care doctors “do well by doing good,” he said. To that end, he will help physicians form accountable care organizations. The poetry is inherent in the company moniker. read more…

​People use social media, Wikipedia and other such sites to share information about current events and their day-to-day lives. Now, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka envisions a world where similar sites are used to share medical information. read more …read more    

The Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare) is dramatically changing health care delivery in the U.S. Specific parts of the new law, which will be phased in through 2020, will have a significant impact on patients with diabetes and prediabetes, as explored in a comprehensive Review article published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics,…

Link: ACO Informatics Video Accountable Care Organizations have the task of gathering patient data from wherever it may originate. Care Coordination may also occur wherever the patient is located. Successful strategies for care coordinators begin even before a patient is discharged from the hospital. Managing large amounts of data requires a robust infrastructure of databases,…

UW Medicine, Seattle, Wash., has formed an accountable care network with other healthcare organizations in Puget Sound and has entered into an agreement to offer healthcare services to certain employees of Boeing beginning in January, 2015. UW Medicine, Seattle, Wash., has formed an accountable care network with other healthcare organizations in Puget Sound and has…

This is my fifth and final of five guest blog posts covering Health IT and EHR Workflow. Way back in 2009 I penned a research paper with a long and complicated title that could also have been, simply, Population Health Management and Business Process Management. In 2010 I presented it at MedInfo10 in Cape Town,…

Link: The Camel’s Nose is in the Tent: Health Care Reform & the Joslin Affiliate David Harlow presents an interesting webinar on the Affordable Care Act’s implementation of Accountable Care Organizations and the Medicare Shared Savings Program. He states, “ACOs exist in the commercial insurance world as well, as part of the broader trend towards…

The accountable care organization (ACO) formed by Anthem Blue Cross and the Torrance, Calif.-based HealthCare Partners has produced $4.7 million in savings for the first six months of 2013 compared to a comparison group, the two organizations have announced. The accountable care organization (ACO) formed by Anthem Blue Cross and the Torrance, Calif.-based HealthCare Partners…