Category: ACO
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Medical Home Open House Highlights: Focus on Care Continuity, Quality and Access
The opening sessions of the Medical Home Open House webinar series delivered tips for improving care continuity, quality and access for patients assigned to a medical home. Healthcare thought leaders Barbara Wall, Doreen Salek and Liz Reardon describe …
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Medical Home Open House Highlights Focus on Care Continuity Quality and Access
The opening sessions of the Medical Home Open House webinar series delivered tips for improving care continuity, quality and access for patients assigned to a medical home. Healthcare thought leaders Barbara Wall, Doreen Salek and Liz Reardon
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Providing More Choices for Those Who Depend on Ventilators
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is building capacity in community care for those who depend on ventilators. Hoping to reduce pressures in acute and long-term care, increase the housing choices for those dependent on ventilators and improve the transition from one care sector to another, the WRHA, working in partnership with a local housing…
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Meet the Medical Home Neighbor: Accountable Care Organizations
The accountable care organization (ACO) — a network of primary care physicians, one or more hospitals, and subspecialists that provide patient-centered care — is receiving increasing attention as healthcare reform unfolds. Not only do ACOs compleme…
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Meet the Medical Home Neighbor Accountable Care Organizations
The accountable care organization (ACO) — a network of primary care physicians, one or more hospitals, and subspecialists that provide patient-centered care — is receiving increasing attention as healthcare reform unfolds. Not only do ACOs
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“An Honest Tale Speeds Best, Being Plainly Told”: Another Look at Health Spending and the Supply of Physicians
Claims that the current physician resource shortage is due to the reduced work effort of physicians are misleading and ignore important trends, namely the demographic changes within the profession, the growth in non-physician spending that has outpaced spending on physicians and the relative decline in spending on physician services over the past 20 years. Such…
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Improving Patient Collections in an Unhealthy Economy: Technologies and Processes to Speed Payments
With a revenue cycle that is measured by claims denials, collaborative data mining by billing and IT can identify origins of financial “bleeding” and turn these problems into actionable items, explain Beacon Partner experts Kevin Burchill, director; Se…
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Improving Patient Collections in an Unhealthy Economy Technologies and Processes to Speed Payments
With a revenue cycle that is measured by claims denials, collaborative data mining by billing and IT can identify origins of financial “bleeding” and turn these problems into actionable items, explain Beacon Partner experts Kevin Burchill, director;
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Integrated Care Delivery Can Reverse the U.S.’s Current Last-Place Ranking in Healthcare
The growing trend toward integrated care delivery systems can help the U.S. healthcare system refocus on its primary goals — providing coordinated care and returning patients to their optimal health status, explains Perry Hanson, partner with Wipfli,…
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Integrated Care Delivery Can Reverse the USs Current Last-Place Ranking in Healthcare
The growing trend toward integrated care delivery systems can help the U.S. healthcare system refocus on its primary goals — providing coordinated care and returning patients to their optimal health status, explains Perry Hanson, partner with