Category: ACO

Today’s EHR and HIT news includes updates from customer acquisition news from eClinicalWorks and Avantas as well as news from MEDfx who have been selected as a pre-approved SSA Disability eClaims technology provider to the Michigan Health Information Network.  Today also brings partnership news from CureMD and Mitochon Systems Florida’s Nature Coast ACO Selects eClinicalWorks…

eClinicalWorks has released findings from a recent survey examining the motivators and challenges for organizations interested in participating in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) and other risk-based or shared savings programs. The research also looked into tools that would help these organizations meet their goals. More than half (53%) of respondents currently…

Today MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, introduced its new Population Health Analytics solution, which delivers enterprise business intelligence to support population health management, risk stratification, pay-for-performance quality measures, capitation, and shared savings adjudication for accountable care organizations and other new payer-provider risk models. …read more Source: MedeAnalytics releases Population Health Analytics…

Today MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, introduced its new Financial Strategy Analytics solution, a powerful tool that enables hospitals and health systems to proactively manage finances, hone strategic planning, and optimize managed care performance metrics in the context of today’s rapidly changing healthcare marketplace. …read more Source: MedeAnalytics unveils new Financial…

Even before President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, Republicans were vowing to repeal it. It’s no wonder, because polls showed that the basic elements of the ACA were quite popular, and there was a real danger that it would become more so as people found out that the plan denounced as a…

Other media reports detail Sen. Ron Wyden’s proposal to allow accountable care organizations to focus on the sickest, most costly patients; questions from Rep. Darrell Issa, R.-Calif., about the navigator program’s funding; and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif., angry response to a reporter’s question about late-term abortions. …read more Source: Immigrants' health care costs…

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and New Haven Community Medical Group announced today that the two organizations have partnered under a patient-centered care agreement that will create an accountable care model to help ensure Anthem members’ access to quality health care that is focused on improved outcomes and lower costs. …read more Source: Anthem…

We’ve been working for a long time on creating a nationwide HIE. I still remember when I first started blogging about EMR 7.5 years ago we were talking about implementing RHIO’s. I’m sure someone reading this blog can talk about what the exchange of health data was before RHIO’s. The irony is that we keep…

Four women gave honest insight into the lessons they've learned in their individual Beacon Community programs–in central Pennsylvania, southeast Minnesota and Western New York–at the Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition this week in Washington, D.C. read more …read more Source: Beacon programs share patient engagement IT lessons learned

When health coaches employ motivational interviewing during patient encounters, expect upticks in medication adherence, weight loss, HbA1c levels and overall engagement, notes Alicia Vail, RN health coach for Ochsner Health System. Ochsner’s eight health coaches focus on patients with diabetes, hypertension and obesity who have come to their attention by way of physician referrals, health…