Category: ACO
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ACA, health IT changing job landscape
In the wake of health IT advances, the Affordable Care Act, and baby boom retirement, jobs such as records technicians, medical assistants, patient navigators and other frontline and nonclinical positions are on the rise, according to a new report. The study, published Nov. 19 by College for America, examines six fast-growing positions, including the new…
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Bill expands MU incentives to behavioral health providers
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has introduced legislation to encourage behavioral health providers such as psychiatric hospitals, substance abuse facilities and psychologists to adopt electronic health records by extending the Meaningful Use incentive program to them. read more …read more
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Healthcare IT: A game-changer for coordinated care
Healthcare is undergoing a significant transformation. Patient-centered, accountable care and pay-for-performance initiatives promise to create unique challenges and opportunities for all stakeholders. To facilitate these care delivery models that are designed to reduce costs and improve quality, the government has developed numerous programs, including Medicare‘s Shared Savings Program, Pioneer ACOs, the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative…
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The connected EHR, cooperative med devices, and accountable tech are the future of health IT
Earlier this week I spoke at Atlanta Healthcare IT Leadership Summit on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and what I call “accountable tech“. I was pleasantly surprised to learn most of the audience agreed that ACOs can’t succeed without the right technology but am continuously disappointed as to how little we as an industry are doing…
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HIE That Facilitates Population Health in South Jersey
Under the leadership of Tom Gordon, senior vice president and CIO, the IT team at Virtua Health, a four-facility, community hospital-based, integrated health system in southern New Jersey, is helping to facilitate massive advance in population health management and accountable care, leveraging health information exchange technologies and strategies. What’s being learned at Virtua could provide…
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In Green Bay, Wisconsin, Prevea Health Moves Forward on Accountable Care
As physician groups move into the arena of population health management and accountable care, one of the organizations moving forward into the realm of collaboration with private health plans is Prevea Health, a 180-physician, 1,500-staff member multispecialty medical group based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Ashok Rai, M.D., president and CEO of Prevea Health, speaks of…
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AMVI partners with ApolloMed to participate in Accountable Care Organization
Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (“ApolloMed”) (OTCQB: AMEH), a physician-centric integrated healthcare delivery company, today announced that AMVI Medical Group (“AMVI”) has contracted with ApolloMed ACO to participate in its Accountable Care Organization. Source: AMVI partners with ApolloMed to participate in Accountable Care Organization
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Population Health Management in a Large-Group Setting: Hill Physicians Moves Forward
At Hill Physicians Medical Group, based in the San Francisco East Bay community of San Ramon, president and CEO Darryl Cardoza and chief medical services officer Rosaleen Derington are working with their colleagues to get to a strongly broad-based, multidisciplinary population health management model of care. Not surprisingly, the strategic leveraging of IT is turning…
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Delivering Successful Care Coordination: Creating the IT Foundation for Accountable Care (Part Three)
In part three of a five-part series on creating the IT foundation for accountable care, Joseph M. Taylor, vice president and ACO practice leader at the Wayne, Pa.-based FluidEdge Consulting firm, addresses the topic of “The expanded collaboration role between different members of the broader care team.” In part three of a five-part series on…
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Study finds empirical evidence of external market factors that may facilitate or inhibit ACO formation
Accountable care organizations are rapidly being formed with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and they are being established in areas where it may be easier to meet quality and cost targets, researchers at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice said in a study published in the journal Health Services Research.…