Category: ACO

At JACO, our top priority is helping clinicians deliver care. Our elegant style and effortless handling appeals to clinical staff at all levels, and our smooth, durable, antimicrobial powder coat finish ensures that the product will stay clean, safe, and looking great for years. But we didn’t forget about the IT staff, either. Our unique,…

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) have announced they will collaborate to study workplace health and safety issues associated with worker impairment from the use of marijuana and other drugs. …read more    

The Obama administration announced a new policy on Wednesday that will allow many people to renew their existing insurance policies for two more years even though the policies don’t provide the comprehensive coverage and consumer protections required by the Affordable Care Act. …read more    

M*Modal Preparing to File for Bankruptcy M*Modal will file for bankruptcy in the next two weeks in order to restructure its $750 million in debt. Inside the Making of Obamacare White House special adviser on health policy, Ezekiel Emanuel publishes a recap of the major political hurdles the Affordable Care Act had to jump on…

Even as controversy swirled around the difficult launch of the federal healthcare.gov website last fall, before that website’s problems were fixed, some state health insurance exchanges were doing very well following their launches, including that of New York Late last fall, when considerable controversy surrounded the rollout of the healthcare.gov website, the consumer portal for…

People on Medicaid in the U.S. are 68 percent more likely to smoke than the general population. New research in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine suggests that expanded smoking cessation benefits offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) should give more people the opportunity to quit. …read more    

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) is asking the Department of Health and Human Services to remove telemedicine restrictions on accountable care organizations and other… read more …read more    

When considering ways to innovate healthcare and incorporate technology into better patient care, look to other industries–and don’t hesitate to hop on a plane. That advice came courtesy of Edward Marx, senior VP and CIO at Texas Health Resources, who was speaking at FierceHealthIT‘s executive breakfast, “Harnessing Technology and Data to Enable Accountable Care,” held…