Category: ACO

Is your organization struggling to choose the technologies needed to effectively migrate from fee-for-service to accountable care models? Our customers have found that predictive population analytics is the key to capitalizing on the transition to new reimbursement models. …read more

Robert Wood Johnson Partners has been selected as one of 123 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in Medicare, providing approximately 1.5 million more Medicare beneficiaries with access to high-quality, coordinated care across the United States, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today. …read more

Over the last year, there have been some significant developments in healthcare technology and the way in which providers are able to deliver the appropriate care to their patients. Based on these trends and developments, it is possible to determine what technologies and changes could be expected in 2014. These innovations include everything from simple…

The Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) was launched in 2013 as a mechanism to obtain timely information on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) … HRMS data from summer 2013 show that more than 60 percent of those targeted by the health insurance exchanges struggle with understanding key health insurance concepts. …read more

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has named 123 new accountable care organizations (ACOs) in its Medicare Shared Savings Program, effective Jan. 1, 2014, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has named 123 new accountable care organizations (ACOs) in its Medicare Shared…

News outlets highlighted health care aspects of President Barack Obama’s news conference. More than one million Americans signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act during the first three weeks of December, including 500,000 through the federal exchange, President Barack Obama announced Friday. …read more

The success of the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplaces may depend on people like [26-year-old] Lizzie Bunnen. If healthy adults her age don’t sign up, the risk is that predominantly older and sicker members will drive up costs and threaten the portals’ future. With the Dec. 23 deadline approaching for January coverage, and at the…

Researchers at the University of Michigan say that text messages can help decrease your risk for type 2 diabetes, using data from the txt4health pilots done with the Southeast Michigan and Greater Cincinnati Beacon Communities. Researchers at the University of Michigan say that text messages can help decrease your risk for type 2 diabetes, using…

The big electronic health record vendors are scrambling to portray themselves as population health specialists, but providers are leaning more toward working with “best of breed” population health vendors rather than their incumbent EHRs for their accountable care needs, according to a new study released by Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research. read more …read more

The 17 ONC-funded Beacon Communities have learned a few things while on the front lines of the health IT revolution, and they want to share those successes and challenges to help others across the country move toward interoperability. After three years of building health IT infrastructure to ensure interoperability, driving population health improvement and testing…