Category: ACO

Nashville’s HealthStream buys Pensacola health care consultants Nashville-based HealthStream, an software-as-a-service vendor focused on delivering professional development and educational tools to hospital employees, pays $8.5 million to acquire Baptist Leadership Group, a health care consulting firm offering programs aimed at increasing patient satisfaction, employee engagement, and quality outcomes. Implementation of an Outpatient Electronic Health Record…

The results of a new study, conducted by the Atlanta-based Porter Research and sponsored by Covisint, seem to indicate that healthcare and healthcare IT leaders are ready to turn to the cloud in order to support population health management and accountable care organization development On Sep. 16, the Detroit-based Covisint, a healthcare IT vendor specializing…

NJ-HITEC is setting itself up to be the outreach and education arm of the ACOs as they spring up across the state. It also offers services around patient-centered medical homes, registries, and PQRS reporting. Earlier this week, Healthcare Informatics published Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland’s interview with Anthony Slonim, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer of…

The seven acute-care-hospital, West Orange-based Barnabas Health, the largest health system in New Jersey, has been plunging headlong into accountable care development. And Anthony Slonim, M.D., the health systems vice president and CMO, has a lot to say regarding lessons learned so far in Barnabas Health’s journey. The West Orange-based Barnabas Health is the largest…

In May, the head of [Trader Joe’s] … sent a confidential memo to employees notifying them of changes to their health coverage, retirement program and wages. … He pledged to reduce workers’ healthcare costs 10% for the remainder of the year while the company determines its response to changes under the Affordable Care Act. ……

Regence BlueShield in Seattle, Wash. and the five-hospital MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Wash. have teamed up to launch an accountable care program. The insurer and provider aim to further enhance care and bend the medical cost curve for people in the south Puget Sound region of the state. Regence BlueShield in Seattle, Wash. and…

Businesses are still trying to sort out many of the issues that come with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Source: Small businesses passing health cost increases on to workers; employers blame health law for shrinking benefits

The rules codify the penalties under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, as well as who will be exempt from them. Source: Obama administration releases final rules for individual mandate

A team of researchers in the Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, a division of CSC, has published a new report that examines the challenges inherent in leveraging data and information for accountable or coordinated care. Lead author Jane Metzger speaks exclusively with HCI’s Mark Hagland about the implications in the report’s findings for healthcare…

Some 10,000 baby boomers will retire every day for the next 19 years, including many doctors. But at the same time, more people will be looking for health providers under ObamaCare. Source: The impact of physicians’ retirement on access to health care