Category: ACO

The Beacon Community program has shown that health information exchange meets real business needs and brings value to the industry, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari. read more …read more Source: Beacon program success highlights HIE value

For years, most hospitals have tracked patient satisfaction to gauge the perceptions of their facility and improve their customer service. However, with the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (VBP), patient satisfaction has become more than a bit of data for internal assessment and improvement. Beginning in October 2012, a portion of the Inpatient Prospective Payment System…

The Republican-majority Texas Legislature makes changes to a bill so the state bans expansion under the Affordable Care Act but doesn’t violate current Medicaid law. In Arizona, meanwhile, Gov. Jan Brewer vetoes five bills to prod lawmakers to expand the program and pass a budget. …read more Source: Texas lawmakers pass bill to stop Medicaid…

Yesterday I led the Clinical IT Governance meeting at BIDMC and I thought it would be interesting for my readers to get an inside look of the kind of topics we’re discussing and how we’re implementing our most challenging projects. 1. Joint Commission debriefLast week the Joint Commission visited BIDMC and the experience was very…

In an accountable care organization (ACO), a network of providers shares the financial risk and responsibility for healthcare management and service delivery for a large group of patients. Together, they work to find ways to improve population health and lower costs. For example, providers can better coordinate patient care to close gaps in care and…

This Memorial Day, AARP Illinois is highlighting a recent report by the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which shows that nearly 17,600 of the 42,000 currently uninsured Illinois veterans would receive health coverage if Medicaid is expanded under the Affordable Care Act. …read more Source: AARP Illinois highlights report on uninsured Illinois veterans…

More than half of the states that applied to participate in a controversial CMS pilot for dual-eligible beneficiaries have either dropped out or delayed implementation of their programs, according to health policy experts. Among the 26 states that applied to participate in the CMS Financial Alignment Initiative, which stems from the Patient Protection and Affordable…

Sixty percent of U.S. hospital executives expect bigger budgets in 2013, with the highest level of spending dedicated to IT, according to a study from global management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting, which als…

“An initiative announced [Thursday] in London by the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized countries to ramp up the fight against rape and other sexual violence in conflict represents ‘a beacon of light and hope’ for the countless survivors around the wor…

It’s a common misconception that if executives at hospitals or practices don’t have time to deliver sophisticated IT solutions to their users that users will just wait patiently and hope that solutions will arrive someday. However, there is a larger Shadow IT movement in many clinical settings than senior executives are willing to admit. Given…