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  • The Many Roadblocks of Creating an ACO

    The Many Roadblocks of Creating an ACO

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    Becoming an accountable care organization (ACO) can leave an organization in a much better place clinically and financially, and overall in-tune with innovative models of reimbursement. Yet while successfully mining this opportunity is a tremendous achievement, the path of becoming an ACO and changing the organizational structure is fraught with numerous challenges that can derail…

  • Ohio’s Largest Health System Joins Nationwide Population Health Collaborative

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    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…

  • At Healthcare Experience Design conference, designers rethink ‘broken processes’

    At Healthcare Experience Design conference, designers rethink ‘broken processes’

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    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…

  • ACOs May Not Be Right for True Population Health, Researchers Say

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    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…

  • Showing the Doctors the Data

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    Ronnie Brownsworth, M.D. of the Piedmont Clinic and Piedmont Healthcare is leading his physician colleagues forward in an ongoing, unfolding initiative to leverage data and IT in ever-more-sophisticated ways to support clinical performance improvement and to gradually move towards accountable care On March 13, Ronnie Brownsworth, M.D., CEO of the Piedmont Clinic, and executive vice…

  • Celebrating my Father’s Life

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    As I sit at my father’s bedside, managing the increasing heaviness of his breathing, I’m doing my best to keep his lips moist, his extremities warm, and the dosing of his comfort care medications appropriate so there is no air hunger. People from my parents’ past are calling and emailing me, telling me their stories…

  • 3 ways analytics can drive ACOs

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    It's an exciting era for healthcare. Aside from the propagation of new devices and technologies that one can spot in any hospital corridor, the very way healthcare will be delivered is under reconstruction. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) link practices under a common standard of payment and care.

  • Child and Youth Mental Health Service Referrals: Physicians’ Knowledge of Mental Health Services and Perceptions of a Centralized Intake Model

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    Objective: We conducted a survey to assess physicians’ attitudes and knowledge of mental health services and centralized intake services for mental health. Method: A survey consisting of 51 questions was sent to 735 physicians in active practice within the catchment area of a regional centralized intake for child and youth mental health services. The survey…