Category: ACO
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NAFC designates Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as Center of Excellence
The National Association For Continence has designated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as a Center of Excellence: Continence Care. Anurag K. Das, MD; Roger Lefevre, MD; Janet Li, MD; and Deborah A. Nagle, MD are the principle physicians for this COE. …read more
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Viewpoints: Health law’s forgotten taxes; ‘lame documentation’ by critics; hospital closing crisis
The Affordable Care Act contains at least two economically distinct taxes on labor market activity. Even the experts on the law have failed to recognize all of them (Casey B. Mulligan, 2/26). …read more
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A Hospital Embraces Accountable Care
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, a 617-bed facility in Hartford and part of St. Francis Care, an integrated healthcare delivery system in central Connecticut, believes embracing ambitious projects. The hospital became an accountable care organization (ACO) under the Medicare Shared Saving Program (MSSP) in January of last year. At the same time, it is…
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How a N.J.-Based ACO Achieved Shared Savings So Quickly
Healthcare organizations are in wait-and-see mode when it comes to ACOs, but for those who are willing and able, the opportunity is there. One such organization in N.J. is showing others the path to ACO success. Healthcare organizations are in wait-and-see mode when it comes to accountable care organizations (ACOs), but for those who are…
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ONC’s Jacob Reider: Proposed voluntary EHR certification addresses ‘bugs’
On Tuesday at HIMSS14 in Orlando, Fla., ONC Chief Medical Officer Jacob Reider said that the recently proposed voluntary 2015 EHR certification looks to address challenges in the prior certification criteria that some might call “bugs.” read more …read more
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Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud
On Monday at HIMSS, I signed my new book, Life as a Heathcare CIO for 300 folks at HIMSS. During the rest of the day I met with numerous companies, leaders, and fellow IT professionals. The theme I heard frequently was the need for care management/population health applications based on data acquisition, normalization, mining, and…
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Viewpoints: False arguments on deadbeats; fighting cancer without insurance; bridging Louisiana’s health funding gap
A small war has erupted over the recent Congressional Budget Office report on the employment effects of the Affordable Care Act. Last week, the CBO itself felt compelled to offer a lengthy and detailed rebuttal to the spin that millions of Americans will “lose their jobs” as a result of Obamacare. …read more
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State exchanges: Vt. Gov. Shumlin says fixes are working; Mass. makes progress on backlog; Calif. marketplace down for repairs
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin says the problems with the Affordable Care Act rollout are getting fixed – and that Republicans were boxing themselves in politically by focusing on failures instead of the successes. …read more
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Feds propose Medicare advantage payment cuts, could have election impact
Medicare Advantage is the managed care program, run by private insurance companies, for seniors and disabled people. …read more
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Research roundup: Palliative care And acos; employers and Supreme Court case on contraception
In preparation for the new ACO environment, leaders recognized the contribution palliative care can make to health care “value,” especially in the care of our sickest (and most expensive) patients … …read more