Category: ACO
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Ohio’s Largest Health System Joins Nationwide Population Health Collaborative
Catholic Health Partners (CHP) has joined the Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance’s population health collaborative to further improve Ohio’s health status and patient care experience while containing costs. Catholic Health Partners (CHP) has joined the Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance’s population health collaborative to further improve Ohio’s health status and patient care experience while containing…
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At Healthcare Experience Design conference, designers rethink ‘broken processes’
At the third annual Healthcare Experience Design conference on Monday, several hundred designers, developers and other creative thinkers put their minds to drawing up better experiences for patients and providers alike. “We need you to help this industry learn how to do better,” Jacob Reider, MD, chief medical officer at the Office of the National…
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Talk of Affordable Care Act, taxes detract from constructive mHealth hearings
When the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced plans earlier this month for its subcommittees to hold three days of hearings on mobile healthcare, it seemed like a promising development,… read more
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Detroit Regional Chamber launches healthcare reform website for employers
The Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce today launched the first phase of a healthcare reform website that will help employers and individuals answer key questions about complying with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.”
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9 tips for getting started with big data
With big data promising enormous clinical and financial rewards for healthcare, but posing just as many technical and strategic challenges, the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) has published a study mapping the way forward for prov…
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ACOs May Not Be Right for True Population Health, Researchers Say
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College say that in order to ‘formulate effective health care and social service policy’ a clear definition of the term ‘population health’ is needed. Accountable care organizations (ACOs), which they note is a key feature of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), may not clearly have “the incentives or the tools…
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Threat of medical device tax on mHealth dominated today’s House hearing
The regulation of mobile healthcare apps and devices could trigger a 2.3 percent excise tax required by the Affordable Care Act, hampering innovation by the budding mHealth industry, according to… read more
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Data-sharing initiative reduces deaths
Sharing data has saved 92,000 lives and $9.1 billion over four and a half years, according to Premier healthcare alliance, which today released results of its QUEST collaborative, made up of 333 hospitals that are members of the alliance. Hospitals nat…
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House to hold hearings this week on mHealth regulations
Continuing to pressure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on whether it intends to regulate smartphones, tablets and mHealth apps as medical devices under the Affordable Care Act, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a three-day series of hearings this week to examine how such regulations would impact patients, physicians and developers. read…
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71 million received free preventive care under ACA: HHS
The Obama administration says about 71 million privately insured Americans received coverage for at least one free preventive healthcare service as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2011 and 2012.