Category: ACO

Now that the individual mandate is officially here, let me begin with an admission: Obamacare is awful. That is the dirty little secret many liberals have avoided saying out loud for fear of aiding the president’s enemies, at a time when the ideal of universal health care needed all the support it could get. ……

Forthcoming federal regulatory efforts and the increased use of business intelligence tools remain top-of-mind issues for hospital executives and healthcare professionals on FierceHealthIT’s Editorial Advisory Board entering 2014. read more …read more

As we wrap up 2013, I thought I’d take a look back at some of the major things that happened in 2013. They will be topics you’re very familiar with, but hopefully this will tie a nice bow on the top of 2013 as we look towards 2014. ICD-10 Got Real – There are still…

Ten Steps for Surviving ARRA and ACA Requirements in 2014 By Dick Taylor, MD The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) changed the healthcare IT landscape for providers by offering money in exchange for the adoption and implementation of electronic medical records. One year later, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) upped the ante with…

A recent report by the Healthcare Intelligence Network, based on a survey of leaders of accountable care organizations, finds physician-hospital organizations increasingly leading ACO development. The implications for healthcare IT are important. According to a recent report published by the Healthcare Intelligence Network,the number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) led by physician-hospital organizations (PHOs) nearly…

Nothing like the holidays to take a few minutes to let loose while still sharing a healthcare IT message. In case you need a little humor in your health IT, then check out the playlist I’ve been creating of Funny, Entertaining, and Unique Health IT videos. Many of the videos will be familiar to you,…

In this podcast, Jason Fortin, senior advisor with Impact Advisors says that what didn’t happen with meaningful use had an influence on health IT leaders in 2013. Fortin says, as an industry, the year showed all health IT stakeholders that the government is going to keep pushing on with meaningful use. In many ways, 2013…

Munroe Regional Medical Center, a 415 bed hospital based in Ocala, Florida in sponsorship of Physicians Health Partners (PHP), has formed a clinical integration program as a non-risk commercial Accountable Care Organization. The combined initiative the hospital and the local physicians drives an effort to lower health care costs, improve outcomes, enhance the patient experience…

The “Chautauqua Model” includes a deep integration of both community and formal healthcare resources, working together to coordinate care and improve health. To achieve their strategic goals for quality improvement and reducing the cost of care, CCHN needed a technology partner with extensive integration experience, a deep knowledge of healthcare- specific analytics and a communication…

The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the value of chiropractic care, promotes the findings of a new study, “Perspectives of older adults on co-management of low back pain by doctors of chiropractic and family medicine physicians: a focus group study” (BMC Complementary & Alternative Medicine, 9.16.2013). …read…